Sun's Try and Buy program is bringing in success stories from New York to California: read about 3 of them [16680]. The Solaris 10 OS is getting accolades too: Frontier Airlines is using it to handle increasing traffic in online bookings [16674], and Carnival Cruise Lines is upgrading to 10 [16527]. Developers looking to fine tune Solaris 10 OS on Siebel have a tech tip this week [16652]. Also check out the latest features in Java SE (Mustang) [16599].
In addition to great performance from inside Sun's servers, the design strategy won an award from the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) [16681]. Another high ranking comes from the TOP500 Supercomputer list where Sun's HPC efforts are making waves [16667].
Sun reached a high place on the TOP500 supercomputer list this year with TSUBAME, a supercomputer in the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) at their Global Scientific Information and Computing Center.
Three companies that have taken advantage of Sun's Try and Buy Program tell of their success with CoolThreads technology. DigiTar, a messaging services company; Joyent, a software company; and Fotolog, a website for creating your own photo blog, all tested Sun servers and the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) and found high performance improvements.
The 2006 Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA) distinguished Sun for its Sun Ultra workstations, and the Sun Fire X4100 servers and the Sun Fire T2000 server with CoolThreads technology by awarding them a combined Bronze award in the Design Strategy category.
Contribute to creating the new Solaris 10 Sun Certified Security Administrator exam by signing up as a beta tester, and the beta exam you take will count toward official Security Certification. Registration is currently underway. The beta test dates are July 17 - July 28, 2006.
The Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) has just become the OS of choice for Frontier Airlines for their website. They want to increase online bookings from 30% to 50%, according to a report by Patrick Thibodeau of ComputerWorld.
Companies and enterprises that need to significantly increase the utilization of compute resources for higher productivity in more powerful grids now have the newly formed Sun Partner Community for HPC program to turn to for assistance.
In late June the Enterprise Grid Alliance (EGA) and the Global Grid Forum (GGF) completed negotiations for a merger of their organizations and the formation of the Open Grid Forum (OGF), an organization devoted to accelerating the adoption of grids worldwide. Former GGF Chairman Mark Linesch is the president and CEO of the new forum.
Carnival Cruise Lines has invited Sun Microsystems aboard its fleet of 21 FunShips, where the IT infrastructure provides Carnival executives the timely, accurate information they need to optimize pricing and grow revenue while also minimizing costs and maximizing system availability. In fact, Sun has sailed with Carnival for over 15 years.
Ask Bill Vass, CIO at Sun Microsystems, how best to train a new hire and he'll tell you, as he did Judy Mottl in an interview for TechCareers, that allowing employees to experience a variety of positions within an organization serves both the individual and the enterprise by helping both find the best niche for a particular talent.
Larry Singer, senior VP of Sun's Strategic Insight Office, explained the company's "componentized" industry strategy in an interview entitled "Larry Singer Interview on Vertical Market Strategy."
Love at first command: The tech recipes site has served up the top ten reasons why you'll love Solaris ZFS and be willing to reformat your hard drive. From ease of administration to "computer, heal thy self", the ZFS feature is making a big splash in the midst of the summer heat. Dive into the top ten reasons why Solaris ZFS is so easy to love.
Starting in mid-July 2006, changes to the Sun Software Updates will change from using Anonymous FTP to an online account with Sun. See the website for details.
Need to make a presentation? Jazz up a meeting about software? Or just want help understanding some of Sun's software products for yourself so you can explain it better? Sun's software tours and demos are here to help. The list of Flash demos gives you choices of seeing the Sun Ray thin clients in action, the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS), or StarOffice 6.0 software.
Michael Kanellos of CNET News.com isn't afraid to ask tough questions of Sun executive John Fowler. Concerns about how recent layoffs at Sun could affect R&D and how Sun x86 servers differ from everyone else's were discussed as well as what everyone's talking about, from the gas pump to the datacenter, saving energy due to its high costs.
WindowsITpro.com decided to review the Sun Fire X4100 server when they learned the server supports Windows Server 2003. They concluded "Sun appears to have met the challenge of providing a high-performance server for the Windows community."
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:
100.4: Solaris 10 6/06 Released with New Enhancements: Solaris ZFS [16661]
100.3: Ubuntu on UltraSPARC Processor-based Server Available to Download [16596]
100.2: Gartner Weighs in on Effect of Sun's Job Cuts [16545]
Simon Phipps takes a "share the wealth" view of the open source effort, in a report by Colin Barker of ZDNet UK. According to Phipps, chief open-source officer for Sun, "the enrichment of the commons" is the kind of thinking that should be driving the move to open source. "This is not volunteerism. It is directed self-interest..." Phipps contended at the recent Open Source Business Conference in London.
The office suite OpenOffice, has three vulnerabilities that can be fixed by the update in version 2.0.3. StarOffice software is also affected. Affected versions of OpenOffice are 1.1.x, 2.0.2 and prior versions.
Project Crossbow is the subject of a recent posting by David Marshall for InfoWorld. His enthusiasm is obvious for the possibility of dividing a physical network interface card (NIC) into a number of virtual interface cards while still having the ability to prioritize network traffic and retaining full resource control. This is what Project Crossbow, a part of the OpenSolaris Project, is designed to do.
The Service Provisioning Mark-up Language (SPML) version 2.0 is an approved OASIS Standard that lets companies manage the provisioning and allocation of identity information and system resources within and between organizations. Several major companies, including BEA Systems, BMC Software, CA, Capgemini, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, SOA Software and Sun, recently collaborated in a demonstration of the solution's interoperability.
Learn how to generate images to represent structured data on web pages with JFreeChart, an open-source graphing and charting library. Also check out another tech tip on how to detect deadlock and static Data Race with the Lock_Lint command.
If you need to get the best performance out of your Siebel server and the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS), then read the detailed technical article, Performance Tuning Siebel Software on the Sun Platform, by Khader Mohiuddin. The tests used Siebel 7 eBusiness Applications Suite on the Solaris OS platform, running real-world scenarios.
Sun Studio Express program now offers builds of future Sun Studio software releases currently under development for download. It provides developers an early look at new Sun Studio software features and technologies for testing and feedback. Featured in this build is the new Data Race Detection Tool (DRDT). DRDT works with the performance analyzer to find runtime data races in multithreaded applications.
The newest features of Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) Version 6, Beta 2 are highlighted in a Sun Developer Network article by Danny Coward and Mark Reinhold that readers will find at "What's New in Java SE 6 Beta 2 (Mustang)."
The fifth article in the Web Tier series and Java EE 5 is now available on the Java Developer web site. In this one Pierre Delisle and Jennifer Ball consider what distinguishes the new #{...} syntax from ${...} expressions and why there are two syntaxes rather than just one. The article is entitled "Web Tier to Go With Java EE 5: Introducing the EL #{…} Syntax."
How to use the headless mode capabilities of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) is explained in Artem Ananiev and Alla Redko's Sun Developer Network article "Using Headless Mode in the Java SE Platform." The authors define headless mode as "...a system configuration in which the display device, keyboard or mouse is lacking."
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