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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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Webcast for ISVs Considering Sun Partnership - Learn the Advantages
December 12 and 13, 2006
Tune in for this webcast on December 12th or 13th to learn about the advantages of partnering with Sun Microsystems. Join Scott McNealy and Jonathan Schwartz from Sun and IDC analyst Stephen Graham to see how you can capture high-growth opportunities and position your business for success.
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Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom Selects Sun Fire Servers to Manage Increased Subscriber Base
Reliable and Scalable, Sun Fire Servers Deliver Online Content and TV Choices to Customers
When Chunghwa Telecom of Taiwan needed a new infrastructure to power their Multimedia-on-Demand (MOD) back-end server platforms, they selected Sun Fire servers and the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) for the scalability and reliability necessary to meet their growing subscriber base.
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Get the Latest in Open Source Tools with the New Release of NetBeans Visual Web Pack and NetBeans C/C++ Development Pack
Integrated Support for Building Native Applications
The NetBeans Visual Web Pack (derived from the Sun Java Studio Creator IDE) and the NetBeans C/C++ Development Pack is now available. With this release of the C/C++ Development Pack, developers can use the NetBeans IDE in conjunction with their specified set of compilers and tools to build native applications.
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Telefonica Moviles Espana Selects Sun to Roll Out New Services
New Architecture also Provides Best Practices Guide
Telefonica Moviles Espana and Sun Microsystems worked for a year to determine what would be required for the telecommunications company to roll out new and advanced services to their customers. Sun installed a new software and systems infrastructure of Sun Fire servers, the Sun Java Enterprise System and the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS).
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New Netra Data-Plane Software Suite for Telecom Dataplane Applications
Reduces Application Development Time
The new Netra Data-Plane Software Suite for the telecommunications network was introduced by Sun at the Hong Kong ITU Telecom World 2006 event. The software suite will include a lightweight run-time environment that performs packet processing functions at multi-gigabit line rates on Sun's CoolThreads servers.
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Top Ten Articles for last Issue
Volume 105 Issue 5
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 the last issue.
Top Ten Articles for Vol 105 Issue 5
- Get Your Free Solaris 10 OS and Sun Studio Software Media Kit [17326]
- New Scripting Language F3 for GUI Programming [17328]
- Sun BluePrints Online Guide Explains Differences Between Sun Fire X4100 and X4200 Servers and Their M2 Versions [17321]
- Sun Management Center Software User Guide [17332]
- Bringing the Power of the Media to the Masses: The Web "Mashup" Trend [17333]
- Sun, Ericsson and Nokia Form the Telecommunications Platform Initiative [17334]
- Sun Posts Details on Various Hardware Offerings [17318]
- Type 7 Country Kit Featuring New Keyboard, Mouse with Scroll-Wheel [17317]
- Sun StorageTek SL500 Tape Library Comes Bundled with HP 4GB FC LTO3 Drives [17289]
- Deploying MediaWiki to Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 [17324]
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Free and Open Source S/W
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GNU/Linux OS to Replace Windows in France's Assemblee Nationale
MPs Join Ministry of Culture, Gendarmerie in Move to Open Source
French members of parliament have decided that, as of June 2007, to replace Windows on their office PCs with a Linux operating system and open source productivity software. The MPs join the gendarmerie and the French Ministry of Culture in making the switch, as reported by Christophe Guillemin in the article "French MPs dump Windows for Linux," written for ZDNet France.
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O3Spaces Releases Its Document Collaboration and Management Environment
Ready for Seamless Integration with OpenOffice.org and StarOffice Software
O3Spaces, a document collaboration and management environment that has been developed for use with OpenOffice.org/StarOffice, is now available. O3Spaces can handle both Sun's StarOffice Office Suite documents and Microsoft Office documents equally well.
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Joomla! Wins 2006 Open Source Content Management System (CMS) Award from Packt
Winner Beats Rival Drupal by a Single Vote
Joomla! has been declared the winner in the Packt Open Source Content Management System Award competition on the basis of its ease of installation and use and because of the active development and community that supports the project.
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Sysadmin
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Solaris Tunable Parameters Reference Manual
Covers NFS Tunable Parameters, TCP/IP Tunables, and More
The "Solaris Tunable Parameters Reference Manual" provides reference information about Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) kernel and network tunable parameters. The manual contains information for both SPARC based and x86 based systems. The manual is intended for experienced Solaris system administrators who might need to change kernel tunable parameters in certain situations.
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Performance and Scalability Improvements Made in the J2SE 5.0 Release
Auto Default Selection of GC, Heap and Runtime Compiler
There is a white paper available online focusing on performance engineering for the Java platform. It covers new features and performance enhancements in the
Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0 release, ergonomics in the 5.0 Java Virtual Machine (JVM), and more.
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Guide to Upgrading and Patching with Solaris Live Upgrade
Planning Issues Covered, Examples Illustrate Upgrades
The "How To Guide" on "Upgrading and Patching with Solaris Live Upgrade" demonstrates the use of Solaris Live Upgrade, a powerful tool for managing change, risk and system availability on Solaris Operating Systems (Solaris OS).
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Podcast: Solaris ZFS Update, A Conversation with Bill Moore, Senior Staff Engineer
New Kind of File System Discussed
A link is available online for a podcast with Bill Moore, Senior Staff Engineer, who discusses the Solaris ZFS.
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Security
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Download Ross Anderson's 'Security Engineering'
Author Gives Away a Classic
Ross Anderson's book "Security Engineering" is now available, not only in bookstores and online from such sources as Amazon.com but as a free download from the publisher, Wiley. Anderson figures that anyone who finds the book truly useful will ultimately buy his or her own copy and trade an unwieldy manuscript in a three-ring binder for the convenience of a bound, printed copy.
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Solaris Security for Developers Guide
Manual Documents APIs and SPIs for Solaris OS Security Features
The "Solaris Security for Developers Guide" documents the public application programming interfaces (APIs) and service provider interfaces (SPIs) for the security features in the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS). Topics include developing privileged applications, GSS-API, and SASL.
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Security Presentations from the OpenSolaris Community
Solaris 10 OS Security Features, RBAC, DTrace
The OpenSolaris web site lists presentations that focus on security for OpenSolaris and Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS). Recent submissions from the OpenSolaris community include a presentation by Glenn Brunette (October 2006) given at the NSA Red Team/Blue Team Symposium that focuses on security controls from the viewpoint of someone attacking a Solaris 10 system.
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Solaris10 OS Security Administration Learning Path Courses
Topics Include Intrusion Detection, Incident Response Policies, Forensic Analysis, Kerberos
A number of courses are now available that cover topics related to security on the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) and the Solaris 9 OS. Topics include intrusion detection, incident response policies, forensic analysis, Kerberos, how to conduct an audit of file systems to determine attacker modifications and preparation for working with a legal investigation.
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Interview with Sun Security Engineer Glenn Brunette
Discussion of Sun's Built-in Security Features, Customer Wins
Sun security engineer Glenn Brunette discusses Sun's holistic approach to security and compliance, specifically how Sun has built in security to all its products, not added it as an afterthought. He lists government and private company customer wins where Sun has helped with security and regulatory compliance needs.
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Telco
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Sun Netra Data-Plane Software Suite: A Complete Telecom Solution
Improved Line Rate Performance, Accelerated Development, Economical Business Model
The Sun Netra Data-Plane Software Suite consists of a unified development environment, a lightweight runtime environment and virtualization that is based on Hypervisor and Logical Domains (LDOMs). It provides accelerated development and reduced costs via a unified development platform that supports open ANSI C programming.
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McNealy Talks Open Standards and Webtone Switch Philosophy with Telcos
Interview in Global Telecoms Business Presents New IPP Consortium Idea
The November/December 2006 issue of "Global Telecoms Business" features an interview with Scott McNealy who emphasizes the need for open standards and how Sun is meeting that need in the telecommunications market, Sun's biggest.
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Sun Java System Content Delivery Server Helps Companies Target Customer Segments and Launch New Services
Keeping Up with Consumer Demand for More Rich Content to Download
New features for the Sun Java System Content Delivery Server ease management of new services such as wireless content. New customers adopting the Sun product include Telecom New Zealand and Telefonica Moviles de Argentina. They will run the system on the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS).
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Featured Sun Net Talk -- Getting Ready for 4G
What Lies Ahead in the Next Network Evolution
Check out the featured Sun Net Talk with Bob Sellinger, Telecom Architect, for a discussion of telecommunications issues such as keeping up with subscriber demand and consumer expectation.
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