Sun technology has made an impression on many this past year, and people are looking forward to how those building blocks will help the company go farther in 2007. InfoWorld has selected the Sun Fire X4200 server, the Sun Fire X4600 M2 and NetBeans 5.5 IDE in its 2007 award listings (see article [17468].) Read more commentary in article [17462].

Sun' promotions offer you a chance to try before you buy their servers such as the award winning Sun Fire X4200 server (see article [17461]). A review of the Sun Fire X4600 M2 server is also online this week [17420]. Another promotion is available with help integrating new Sun technology into your datacenter [17459]. Also available to help manage servers is the new version 6, update 1, of the Sun Management Center 3.5 software [17448], which provides support for high-end servers.

Project Looking Glass 1.0 has been released (see article [17444]). There is a video demonstrating how you can move windows out of your way to have more desktop space to work on. If you haven't seen it, take a look. A video is worth a thousand words.

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Support plans priced at half of what Red Hat offers - that's what Sun presents this week: the new Solaris Support Subscriptions offer flexible, cost-efficient choice of four software support levels to match your needs (see article [17520]).

That's just one of the announcements about the Solaris 10 11/06 OS this week. Learn about Logical Domains and more security features in article [17519]. For more on security features, see the documentation list for everything you need to know about Solaris Trusted Extensions [17529].

The Sun Expert Exchange online Q&A on Wednesday January 24, 2007, will present more on Solaris 10 OS. Post your questions to Sun experts (see article [17521]).

There will also be an Ask the Experts exchange on January 16, 2007 about the Open Java project [17496] as well as information on a web-based course on Java EE 5 and EJB. Other Java news includes the report the the Eclipse Foundation joined the JCP [17531].

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This week we follow up on the Sun-Intel alliance announcement of last week with links to interviews with Schwartz and Otellini (see article [17593]).

Read about new Sun Java System software: Sun Java System Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.0 [17569], new features in Sun Java System Access Manager 7.1 [17573], Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8.1 [17576], and Sun Java System Message Queue 3.7 Update 1 [17570].

The next JavaOne Conference is on the horizon, and the call for submissions to the Duke's Choice Awards is open [17553].

Tech tips for the week focus on AJAX [17563], Swing and the Java SE 6 [17561], using a multi-tasking virtual machine to manage multiple applications within a Java operating environment [17562], and using PHP on Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 [17525].

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Make the features of Solaris 10 OS even better? That's what the Solaris Cluster does, and it does it with even more third-party software choices than before (see article number [17485]). Next week we'll cover some classes on the Cluster. Also improved is the Sun Blade 8000 family with the addition of a 4-socket module, the x8400 [17486].

The Sun Java CAPS suite was listed near the top of a Forrester report [17495], and how it is used in the insurance industry is outlined in [17467]. This week we feature a Financial Services section showcasing Sun technologies at work in the industry.

The Sun Globalization (G11N) team has made the Solaris G11N source code open source and available at OpenSolaris.org [17473]. There is also a project to make the glossaries available in many languages [17472].

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Good news from Sun this week: Sun is returning to profitability this quarter (see article number [17557]), and the company has a new agreement with Intel to collaborate on making new servers with Xeon processors [17551]. Schwartz expresses enthusiasm about where Sun is now and how it got there (see article [17522]).

Another award came Sun's way in the form of the Stevie Award given to Kim Jones in the Sun Education division [17524]. We follow up this week with more on the new Solaris subscriptions [17512]. Read about Sun's competition with Red Hat (in article [17556]).

The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) section brings you a report from the EU and one from the Harvard Business School (see articles [17549] and [17523], respectively).

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