Welcome to the start of the 10th year (vol 109) of this newsletter!

This week, we share some "Good News" from Sun marketing. On Monday 12 and Tuesday 13, the Florida Open User Groups meetings will feature Isaac Rozenfeld, an IT Architect in Suns Solaris Adoption Practice group.

Developer tech tips this week offer a range of fun activities: How to create and validate an XML signature [17714], how to build web applications with jMaki [17762], how to build Struts applications [17735], and news on a NetBeans and Ruby plug in [17783].

Princeton installed 180 Sun Fire X2100 servers in its Plasma Physics Lab installed 180 Sun Fire X2100 servers and increased the speed of studies on energy [17784].

If your computers have any trouble with Daylight Savings Time on March 11, see the SunSolve tips for updating the Solaris OS in article [17628]. Also for Solaris is the Sun Update Manager software that can manage your updates (see article [17755]).

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There is a lot of news surrounding the CoolThreads servers: Sun has passed the half-billion dollar revenue mark for its Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers and has sold enough servers with chip multi-threading (CMT) UltraSPARC T1 processor to reach a milestone of "over one million CPU threads" shipped (see article [17859]).

A trade-in promotion on the servers has been extended until June 1 [17829]. Learn more about them during the Sun Expert Exchange on Wed. March 28 [17861]. Get an inside look at the Sun Fire T1000 in article [17830] and learn about administration of the Sun Fire T2000 in a training course package [17831].

In other news the open source version of the Java EE 5 application server -- GlassFish V2 -- is now available as a beta release (see article [17849]). Learn about Sun StorageTek T10000 drives in a success story [17832] and get the drive and more in a promotion in article [17833].

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We are covering news about Sun's "Four S's" -- Storage, Software, Servers and Services. This week we have Storage and Software for you.

The February 2007 Early Access of Sun Studio software is out [17818], and Logical Domain 1.0 Early Access software is available for download too [17821].

Sun StorageTek downloads include three versions for the Windows Server 2003 [17795]. There is also an article on the Sun-Hitachi relationship [17792], and one on storage software transfers [17794].

Increasing resource utilization with Solaris Containers is the focus of a new, large Sun BluePrints document [17787]. Sun continues to advance its grid technology and offerings with a new set of applications available online at the network.com site [17823].

If you are looking forward to the upcoming JavaOne Conference, see article [17803] to get a sneak preview of what will be included in the event.

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The new Netra X4200 M2 server [17881] leverages AMD64 technology to give customers a choice of platforms. It is Sun's first Netra rackmount server developed with industry-standard x64 (x86, 64-bit) architecture.

The Jolt Awards are in and Sun won a few again this year: the NetBeans IDE won for best development environment [17871]. Also in the Developer section is a new game, the Temple of the Sun, with a contest for the highest scoring player; see [17879].

Two of Sun's Ultra workstations get positive reviews, the Sun Ultra 20 M2 [17846] and the Sun Ultra 40 M2 [17890].

If you are just getting started with DTrace, there is a guide for you: The Power of DTrace in article [17870].

If you thought humor was hard to find in IT, see what Sun's EVP of the systems group did to get everyone excited about the Sun-AMD line of servers [17878]. Also hear from Sun's co-founders in an interview that goes back to the early days [17884]. For more from the top guys at Sun, see the Gosling interview on security in Java [17866].

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