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.
InfoWorld's 2007 Technology of the Year Awards for Hardware features in slideshow format what they consider the "best and most innovative workstations, servers, and systems management tools." Two Sun Fire servers made the list, and the NetBeans5.5 IDE won an applications award.
A recent feature on the Innovating@sun web page presents a discussion of file systems of how the future will handle the increasing amount of network content. Listen in as Hal Stern talks with guests Jeff Bonwick, distinguished engineer and CTO of storage products, Bill Moore, hardware and software architect, and Bob Sokol, chief technologist for the communications industry group.
Sun's gains in the server market in 2006, the growth of the OpenSolaris community and popularity of the Solaris 10 OS have paved the way for future success in 2007.
Sun Tech Days will be visiting Atlanta, GA, January 16-17, 2007. Technical sessions will feature technologies such as Java SE, Java EE, and Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS).
System News, Inc. (SNI) offers sponsored versions of the "System News for Sun Users" newsletter to Sun Resellers. Resellers can offer subscriptions to their customers and prospects. The sponsored newsletter will have the Reseller's Brand and will be integrated into the Reseller's Web site.
The purpose of a sponsored version of the newsletter is to drive the sale of Sun products.
Since Scott McNealy passed the reins of Sun Microsystems to Jonathan Schwartz, McNealy has been active in the education market and government arena. His new title is chairman and co-founder of Sun and chairman of Sun Federal. The following is a collection of some recent interviews he did and a slide show. At the end is his group of Top Ten Lists, just for fun.
A technical security article on the BigAdmin site provides an in-depth view of how to configure the Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.3 for SSL and the Solaris Cryptographic Framework (SCF) to use the Cryptographic Accelerator of the UltraSPARC T1 processor.
If you need to migrate personal address book entries when upgrading from Sun Java System Messenger Express Web-based email client to the new Sun Java System Communications Express (which was introduced in the Sun Java Enterprise System 2004Q2), there is a new utility that improves performance of the migration.
A recent InfoWorld review of the Sun Fire X4600 M2 server asserts that the server "offers quite a bit of bang for the buck." The review assesses the dual-core Opteron processors, the hardware design of the chassis, and its performance and virtualization capabilities.
The version 6 update 1 of Sun Management Center software provides support for Sun Fire 12K, 15K, E20K and E25K servers. This release patches the Version 6 Supplement for Sun Fire High-End Systems to allow download of the Sun Management Controller Agent (SUNWscsca) on Sun Fire 12K and Sun Fire 15K servers, with CP1500 SC boards installed, running Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS).
The Niagara 2 processor builds on the success of the UltraSPARC T1 processor with the promise to deliver even greater levels of throughput and power efficiency across a broader range of workloads and markets, according to Sun.
A recent News.com report by Stephen Shankland states the percentage of CIOs interested in buying Sun's UltraSPARC T1 "Niagara"-based servers in the coming year has increased.
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 4 issues. The top 10 articles for last week, Vol 106 Issue 4, were
2 Solaris OS Downloads: Solaris Cluster 3.2 Extends High Availability Features of OS [17416]
Java SE 6 Release Notes -- A Few Features and Enhancements [17408]
Solaris ld.so Multiple Local Vulnerabilities [17417]
EPA to Study Data Center Cooling and Power Issues [17424]
The CIO and CPO -- Working Together to Secure Data and IT Systems [17401]
New BigAdmin Commercial Software Developer Resources and Information Hub [17427]
The JVM Tool Interface (JVM TI): How VM Agents Work [17426]
Sun Studio Express 3 - December 2006 Build Available [17430]
Project Looking Glass has released version 1.0 of its innovative Java 3D windowing system. With Looking Glass 1.0 you can have slanted windows parked on your desktop. See the video online to see it in action.
The new Grid Engine 6.1 Preview release features new functionality in resource quotas and support for Mac OS X on the x86 platform and support for Linux on Itanium (IA64).
A new bug-fix release is available for Derby 10.2.2.0, the pure Java relational database engine. In this version there is support for the final version of the JDBC 4.0 with source and compiled code.
The Professional Template Pack for OpenOffice.org includes more than 80 templates for all the programs in the suite, including Writer, Calc, Draw and Impress. The templates have images built in and text styles to create professional and personalized documents.
Samba version 3.0.23d is the version that production Samba servers should be running for all current bug-fixes. Changes include stability fixes for winbindd.
The BM Seer weblog has posted some benchmark information about the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) beating Linux. The test was the SPEC OMPM2001, which was done with the Sun Fire X4100/X4200 M2 server.
Hubert A. Le Van Gong posted a how to on his Weblog that explains how to use Solaris commands to create a Solaris partition on a USB removable disk drive.
On his blog Brendan Gregg explains the benefits of using DTrace for JavaScript. DTrace offers a way to run a normal browser build with User Statically Defined Tracing (USDT) probes and dynamically debug information as needed.
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