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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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