The one year anniversary of OpenSolaris is detailed in this week's edition with coverage on its accomplishments, community growth, future directions [16591], [16623], [16576] and open source philosophy [16597]. Sun's move to join the OpenAJAX Alliance and Dojo Foundation [16595] also is making News as are Solaris 10 OS benchmark results with Reuters RMDS 6.0 [16627] and Ubuntu's download sites since its availability on the UltraSPARC T1 processor [16596].
Comparison of the Solaris 10 OS and Linux 2.6 [16565] from a developer's perspective is covered in Software, which has information on working with Solaris Containers and Solaris Service Manager [16559]; building GLib with Sun Studio tools [16567]; and more.
Read about the Sun Ultra 25 Workstation [16585], end of life for 80 GB hard disk drive for select workstations [16586] and four GB DIMMS availability for Sun Ultra 40 Workstations [16469].
The Sun and Standards section covers the Open Document Format and StarOffice product implementation [16584].
NetBeans highlights four new tutorials from Tim Boudreau using Lookup, Nodes and Property Editor [16580] and four new plug-ins for the NetBeans IDE [16581].
This week's edition also contains Sun Features, Developer articles and Sun Promotions.
Thomson Prometric presents a limited time offer on tests on the Sun Java System or the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS): When you buy a voucher for a test between July 1 and August 15, 2006, you get a free re-take if you need it.
Trade-in UltraSPARC III processor-based Sun Fire 3800 and Sun Fire 4810 servers for a 30 percent trade-up allowance toward the list price of a replacement Sun Fire E2900 or Sun Fire E4900 server. This Sun promotion offers a potential trade-up savings of more than US$40,000.
All you need do is to purchase any new Sun Fire UltraSPARC IV or Sun Fire UltraSPARC IV+ system, upgrade or CPU board add-on in order to automatically qualify to receive Oracle database licenses free when you also sign up for one year of discounted Oracle database support services through Sun.
If you are in the process of centralizing data storage at your enterprise, then Sun's offer of up to 44 percent off the price of a Sun StorEdge 5310 NAS Gateway bundled with a Sun StorEdge 6130 RAID Array should be of interest. The offer is good through June 30, 2006.
Jim Grisanzio, community manager, OpenSolaris, recapped some of the significant milestones along the way to the one-year anniversary of the OpenSolaris community.
In the past year since Sun open sourced the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS), the OpenSolaris community has grown to more than 14,000 members. Also announced was the latest update to the Solaris 10 OS -- update 6/06.
In support of open source, Sun has joined the Dojo Foundation and the OpenAJAX Alliance to help drive open standards for AJAX programming and increase interoperability across AJAX technologies. The OpenAJAX Alliance formed earlier in 2006 and was announced at the OpenAJAX Summit in May. Dojo provides an open source JavaScript toolkit.
In April 2006, the Reuters Market Data System (RMDS) was made available on the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS), gaining the interest of financial services market. RMDS 6.0 delivers real-time news, data feeds and information about trading orders and prices to financial institutions.
Dwayne Lee, OpenSPARC community manager, follows up on the recent news announcement that Ubuntu is available for the UltraSPARC processor (see article [16499]) by listing download sites for Ubuntu. Ubuntu 6.06 is a GNU/Linux distribution.
John Fowler, executive VP of Sun Systems group, briefed reporters in San Francisco recently on the company's approach to blade server marketing as it has changed since the ill-fated spring of 2004 when the Sun Fire B1600 and Sun Fire B100/B200 product lines made far from the intended splash. Chris Preimesberger covered the news conference for eWeek, where it was reported under the title "Sun Ready to Wage Blade Wars Against IBM, HP."
A year into the OpenSolaris Project, James Eagleton, Sun Solaris Project Manager for Australia and New Zealand, shared his thoughts with Renai LeMay for ZDNet Australia. The prospects, he said, are good.
Single Sign On for open source has been a product of interest at Sun Microsystems. Eric Leach, Sun Identity Management product line manager, shared his thoughts on OpenSSO with a writer for the Entiva Group Analyst Report.
If you've been wondering about how the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) compares to the the Linux operating system, see the article by Max Bruning on the Sun Developer Network site. He uses Solaris 10 OS and Linux 2.6.
The white paper "Working with Solaris Containers and the Solaris Service Manager" by Joost Pronk van Hoogeveen, Solaris Software, explains how Solaris Containers and Solaris Predictive Self-Healing work together to address the need to virtualize servers, especially as hardware and software infrastructures grow.
Nikolay Molchanov of Sun provides a technical article on building open source applications with Sun Studio 11 to see if the software is suitable for it, to find out what kind of problems would be encountered and to compare the dmake tool with the GNU make tool.
Sun is seeking input about what applications you would like to run on Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS). Fill in the form to list the application name, the software vendor and application version number.
Check out the courses available to C++ developers who want to take advantage of the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) by porting applications and optimizing data throughput in a networked environment. Courses include shell programming for sys admins, perl programming and real-time programming for the Solaris OS.
Sun Ultra 25 workstation is a lower priced workstation (than the Sun Ultra 45 workstation) but with plenty of features. This workstation is the ideal replacement platform for those currently using the Sun Blade 150 and Sun Blade 1500 workstations. It is well suited for many applications in manufacturing, MCAD and for OEM applications.
As an update to the announcement that the Sun Java workstation W1100z has reached its end of life (EOL), the 80 GB hard disk drive is also being ended. This part was not included in the EOL announcement.
While there are many commercial and open source implementations of the Open Document Format (ODF) available, we like to think that our StarOffice product stands out for its functionality and ease of use. You can read more about the various ODF implementations at ConsortiumInfo.
Each week, we determine which articles have been most frequently referenced by logged-in subscribers to provide you with a list of the most popular articles for each of the last three issues. The Web version of this article lists the top 10 articles for each of the last four issues. The top articles for the four most recent issues were:
100.2: Gartner Weighs in on Effect of Sun's Job Cuts [16545]
Jeri Lockhart and Marina Sum strongly encourage developers to look into NetBeans Enterprise Pack 5.5 IDE as a tool for analyzing schemas in the course of development and maintenance operations. The authors note that the query results for NetBeans Enterprise Pack 5.5 IDE can clearly display a schema's structure, contents and the relationships among the components.
Solaris ZFS clearly has a fan in Carla Schroder, whose piece for ServerWatch, "ZFS Adds Exciting Twist to Mundane World," characterizes Solaris ZFS as a file system built from the ground up that provides speed, ease of administration and data integrity in "one magical package." Furthermore, the scalability of the 128-bit filesystem solution ensures its longevity, she contends.
Developers who use a personal digital assistant will find John O'Conner's Sun Developer Network article on "Creating a Sorted JList Component" useful. He explains using the decorator class, SortedListModel.
Sun's C++ compiler comes with both libCstd and libstlport, two libraries that implement the C++ standard library. libCstd is used by default and is based on Rogue Wave's stdlib 2.1.1. libstlport is based on STLport version 4.5.3 and is used if you specify the compiler option -library=stlport4. Mukesh Kapoor compares the two and discusses instances in which users might use one rather than the other in his Sun Developer Network article "Comparing C++ Standard Libraries libCstd and libstlport."
Developers of Java technology applications face the need to anticipate the version of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) their solutions will encounter in the course of deployment. Chet Haase, Thomas Ng and Dana Nourie address this issue in "Auto-Install: Easier Launching of Java Web Start Applications," a Sun Developer Network article.
Tim Boudreau presents four new NetBeans tutorials on Selections: (1 & 2) Selection Management I and II, (3) NetBeans Nodes API and (4) NetBeans Property Editor. The tutorials are sequential, starting with the Selection Management part I. Each tutorial uses code from the previous one.
The latest plug-ins for the NetBeans IDE bring the best of Sun research to developers. These are: Jackpot, Real Time Java technology, Web Services Interoperability Technology (WSIT) and Grid Compute Server for NetBeans.
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