Sun participated in the ITU Telecom World 2006 event in Hong Kong, demonstrating new products for telecommunications companies such as the new Netra Data-Place software suite [17355] (details of the architecture are covered in [17357]). Telefonica Moviles Espana will roll out new services to its customers on a new Sun infrastructure [17351].

See the Telco section this week for an interview with Scott McNealy about how Sun's products meets telco's needs today and for tomorrow [17356]. A Sun Net Talk explains 4G and more [17360].

We've got a couple of guides featured for Sys Admins: Achieving performance improvements in the J2SE 5.0 platform [17345], and upgrading and patching with Solaris Live Upgrade [17353].

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While the holidays can be fun with time off from work, good food, and reconnecting with people, some of the worst things are trying to find a parking space to go shopping then having to wait in line. Sun doesn't have the parking solution (yet), but they have lent Java CAPS technology to retailers such as Harrods of London and Karstadt department stores to help improve customer service [17422].

Some Sun promotions are set to end soon: December 31, 2006, is the last day to get a Sun Blade 8000 system with free Enterprise Installation Services [17398], and the last day to save 50 percent on training for Sun Fire x64 servers [17399].

The Storage section presents information on new versions of storage software: Sun StorageTek 9900 HiCommand Tuning Manager 5.1 [17375] and Sun StorageTek Business Analytics 5.1 [17370].

A tech tips explains how to use the notification plug-in with the Sun Java System Messaging Server 6 [17397], and article [17396] explains how to set limits in the messaging server to prevent denial of service attacks.

Have a happy and safe holiday.

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The big news this week is new releases: the release of Java SE 6 (see article number [17386]) with its enhanced functionality for web services, dynamic language support, diagnostics and desktop applications. Developers can get free support through a new promotion tied to the Java SE 6 announcement [17387].

The other new release is the Solaris 10 11/06 OS release and its new and improved features (see [17371]) such as Trusted Extensions and default settings at installation.

In the Storage section this week, we bring you information on tiered storage and ILM. Read about the benefits [17368] and new licensing structures [17374].

There are new downloads for Sun StorageTek products available online [17369]. Reducing data center complexity is one of Sun's goals; read about how Sun, AMD and VMware are working together to further that goal into a reality [17302].

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There's so much to learn about the new Java SE 6 release that we are presenting some more information this week -- enhancements and new features in the Collections Framework and in Deployment (see article [17408]).

A new build of Sun Studio Express is available [17430], and a new resource is available online for commercial software developers, a new info hub on BigAdmin [17427].

Security issues don't take a vacation: there is a vulnerability in the JRE [17425] and more in Solaris LD.SO [17417]. For the CIO and CPO who may find themselves with new responsibilities on the job, take a look at some of the suggestions in a new Sun white paper in article [17401].

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