If you've been wondering what Scott McNealy has been up to lately, see article [16831] to read about his continuing push to eliminate the digital divide by including open source applications in schools. Before the kids head back to school, they might want you to take them to see the film "Barnyard"; since its computer graphics were made with Sun technologies [16830], it could be considered work-related fun.
In our Education section this week, we feature StarOffice software training resources [16834], especially good for schools that recently implemented the software. Solaris Service Plans are also explained [16773].
A new migration guide is available from Sun for developers who are migrating JBuilder to NetBeans [16827]. The recently announced Sun Blade 8000 comes with free services as part of a new promotion [16839], and a download is available for the blade [16815].
The recently released animated movie "Barnyard" depicts life-like characters and landscapes, very complex computer graphics that require huge amounts of compute power and storage abilities. When Nickelodeon Movies evaluated technology systems to support their creative animation staff, they selected Sun Fire servers and Sun StorageTek data management systems.
Scott McNealy, Sun chairman, has started working with an educational initiative called the Global Education and Learning Community (GELC), a non-profit organization with a mission to make open-source software available to the world's kids for free. He discusses the value of open source and closing the digital divide.
With increasing pressures on telecommunications companies to cut costs, Sun has been working on solutions specifically designed to do just that. In recent months, more telcos have adopted Sun's Secure Mail service and the DNS/DHCP solution from Sun and Nominum.
The DTrace performance analysis and debugging tool will be in the next version of the Mac OS X. It is one of the many new features in the upcoming Mac OS X 10.5 (codenamed Leopard) operating system. There will be the new Xcode 3.0 text editor, Interface Builder 3.0 and Xray, a performance tool. Many such Xray instruments leverage the open source DTrace, now built into Mac OS X Leopard.
A draft of a new specification has been published that will define a consistent way of expressing how computer networks, applications, servers and other IT resources are described or modeled. Companies collaborating on the specification include Sun, BEA Systems, BMC Software, Cisco Systems, Dell, EMC, HP, IBM Corp, Intel and Microsoft.
The latest releases and news from the OpenSolaris community includes a new build of ON, a new project called PEF, Packet Event Framework, a follow-on to FireEngine, and the Xen project, an open-source hypervisor. Also find wireless USB support on OpenSolaris.
In a Sun BluePrints paperback book titled "Creating Highly Available Database Solutions: Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) and Sun Cluster 3.x Software" authors Kristien Hens and Michael Loebmann describe the technology behind the RAC and Sun software and explain how to determine if this high-availability solution is the right choice for a particular IT environment.
Keep your Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) updated easily with the Sun Update Connection. The Sun Update Connection offers various levels of knowledge-based software update services, some of which are free to all Solaris users while others are available to Service Plan customers. There are two programs available, the Hosted program and the System program.
Sun Educational Services has assembled a training package enabling users to appreciate the maximum benefit in the operation of their Sun Fire T2000 servers, whose Chip Multithreading Technology (CMT) makes it the ideal platform for online transactions and web services. The Sun Fire T2000 server delivers top levels of compute density and price performance by overcoming datacenter real estate, power consumption and cooling constraints.
A free distribution for the Sun Blade 8000 server offers the latest version of firmware and software supporting the Sun Blade 8000 Modular System, including the Sun Blade X8400 Server Module.
The Application Readiness Service for Sun Fire Servers (ARS) is an offering of Sun Professional Services that assists customers to realize fast application production, minimize risk of technical problems and identify system, storage and security parameters that can affect availability and service level objectives. ARS provides the mission-critical services to smoothly design, configure, implement and test the Sun Fire server to the point of application loading.
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 from the last issue - Vol 102, Issue 1 - were:
BrandZ: Enables non-Native Zones in Solaris Zones [16788]
Two Paperback Titles on Lightweight Directory Access Protocol [16803]
CoolThreads Express Pass Promotion on Sun Fire T1000 Server [16802]
How to Maximize Application Performance on CMT Architectures [16786]
Sun Federal Appoints New Executives: Vass and Robbins [16817]
Tony Blair Visits CA to Discuss Biotechnology Industry [16818]
This tip explains how to publish a local Java Specification Request (JSR) 168 portlet as a remote portlet with Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) in Sun Java System Portal Server 7. Your portal can then consume or display other remote portlets and become much more versatile.
Josh Marinacci of the Swing Toolkit Team at Sun and Chris Adamson, editor for O'Reilly's Java web sites, provide hacks (tips) in their O'Reilly book, "Swing Hacks". The book is for enterprise developers who are working with Java technology to build enterprise applications. Topics in the book include tables, trees, sliders, spinners, progress bars, internal frames and text components.
Sun has announced a three-tier Solaris Service Plan for its customers on non-Sun platforms and those electing to forgo hardware support but who use the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS). Special pricing is available on the Basic Tier for the Global Education and Research market.
Samsung SDS to benchmark the products at the Sun Solution Center. The Ministry of Education accepted the Sun proposal over proposals from IBM and HP because of the performance and value of the Sun servers, as well as the proven stability and security of the Solaris 10 OS. Sun products and services represent about 70 percent of the project’s IT budget, making Sun the major IT supplier for NEIS.
It's back-to-school time, and those of you who have already installed your hardware and software upgrades over the summer may be interested in what resources are available to keep you going. For example, not only is the the StarOffice software package available at no cost to educational institutions, but the Sun Microsystems Foundation Inc., has developed the free StarOffice 8 Office Suite Tutorial for Kids and StarOffice 8 Office Suite Guides to enable novice and intermediate users make effective use of the features in StarOffice 8 software.
Protect your investment in existing JBuilder projects with the NetBeans IDE. Sun is offering a special workshop to help development teams migrate existing JBuilder projects to NetBeans. Sign up before November 30, 2006, to get a discount. Sun Developer Expert Assistance is also available at no charge but only until October 14, 2006.
To help developers migrate existing projects from JBuilder to NetBeans IDE, Sun has a migration guide available online. The guide covers what you need to know to start NetBeans IDE, import your JBuilder projects into NetBeans IDE and continue work on your projects. The Migration Guide lists steps and links for more information.
Sun Fire servers with CoolThreads technology will power a new solution for the Jordan Kuwait Bank (JKB) to be implemented by Specialized Technical Services (STS), an e-payment solutions provider in the Middle East.
Created by the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1975, the Regulation National Market System (Reg NMS) is in the throes of changes designed to accommodate increased trading volumes and compliance requirements that involve improvements in the storage, archiving, retrieval and securing of data. Sun Microsystems addressed those issues in its appearance at the recent Securities Industry Association trade show.
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