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]).
Want to create freedom of choice of client devices for your employees, partners and customers? Want to protect and control sensitive corporate data? Want to decrease maintenance and operations cost of IT infrastructure? The solution is Sun Secure Global Desktop Software. This promotion ends soon. Check it out before it's gone.
Sun is currently offering a promotion until April 1, 2007, that gives you a free server chassis when you trade in and upgrade from qualified Sun or competitive servers to an eligible Sun Fire E6900 or Sun Fire E25K server configured with UltraSPARC IV+ 1.5 GHz or 1.8 GHz processors.
Of the top 5 vendors, Sun was the only one to gain market share in overall server
revenue this quarter, gaining 1.5 points year-over-year, while IBM declined
0.5 points in share.
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"Sun'scomeback began early last year, bolstered by growth of its small but fast-growing
line of Intel-compatible servers, powered by chips from Advanced Micro Devices.
Last year Sun also launched servers that use its own power-sipping T1 family
of chips," said Investor's Business Daily's Brian Womack.
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"[IDC Analyst Jed] Scaramella attributed Sun's growth to its improving financial
picture during the second half of 2006, its 'Try and Buy' program,
which helps get its hardware into the data center, and the growing use of
its Solaris OS. In 2007, Sun entered into a new agreement with Intel that
analysts say should help the company continue its growth," said eWeek's
Scott Ferguson.
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Sun is putting its technology and belief in open source to work for a new cause - to build a collaborative website for architects who want to use design to improve living and housing standards around the world. The site is the Open Architecture Network, and the idea for it came from Cameron Sinclair, Executive Director and co-founder of Architecture for Humanity.
The first OpenSPARC Center of Excellence was established at the University of California, Santa Cruz by Sun. This new center will focus on the OpenSPARC initiative, a true "open-source" approach to high-speed microprocessor technology. The Center of Excellence establishes a collaborative partnership between Sun and UCSC faculty who are working with the OpenSPARC community.
When the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab installed 180 Sun Fire X2100 servers running a Red Hat-based OS kernel, they tested them against their old Datel AMD Athlon-based server cluster and found an increase in performance by the Sun servers that saved the scientists hours of time.
Project Darkstar, Sun's version of the online game server platform written entirely in Java technology, made its debut at the recent 2007 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, where Sun also announced the opening of registration for the Darkstar Playground, which will enable developers to create a wide variety of games that can be provisioned through a single server platform.
The data storage company Imation has signed a distribution agreement with Sun to be the worldwide media distributor of Sun-branded tape media for entry-level, mid-range and datacenter environments.
Simon Phipps attended the first OpenSolaris Developer Conference on March 1, 2007, to introduce the new Get.OpenSolaris.org website. The conference offered tutorials for developers and enthusiasts of OpenSolaris.
Two new Open Solaris User Groups (OSUGs) will have their first meetings this month. Isaac Rozenfeld (see Isaac\'s blog), a Sun Microsystems' IT Architect, will speak on Monday March 12th in Ft. Lauderdale and Tuesday March 13th in Tampa. There will also be discussions about the groups, how to organize, future topics etc. After the main meeting, networking will continue at a nearby restaurant.
The Florida Open Solaris User groups offer a strong ROI for guest speakers with customers in FL and appropriate topics for the OSUGs.
This year Sun Microsystems celebrates its 25th anniversary and proclaims the company's maxim -- "The Network is the Computer" -- as confidently now as on day one. Delivering open, network computing technologies -- servers, storage, software and services -- Sun has enabled its customers to reap the advantages of the Internet.
In his blog on the occasion of Sun's 25th birthday, "The Glamor in Mass Transit(?)," Jonathan Schwartz likens the economies attained in mass transit to those already (and yet to be) achieved in the datacenter. The secret in both instances, Schwartz contends, is "infrastructure optimized for utilization, efficiency, and overall performance." Beats a high performance sports car (or a designer cell phone) every time.
James Gosling, Sun VP and inventor of the Java programming language, has been appointed to the Order of Canada, according to a report on the CBC. The Order of Canada recognizes outstanding lifetime achievement and contributions to society and the country by Canadians from all walks of life.
An early access release of the NetBeans Ruby Pack is available for download from NetBeans.org. The NetBeans Ruby Pack plugin is available in the recent Milestone 7 release of NetBeans 6. It supports the Ruby programming language and editing features for both Ruby and JRuby.
The new Sun Java System B2B Suite 2.0 is a fully-integrated solution to meet the need of securely managing large numbers of transactions and trading partners across different enterprise applications and systems.
The Sun 19-inch LCD monitor has been competitively priced. It meets RoHS compliance requirements in the EU and China and has an Energy Star rating. This monitor is compatible with all Sun Workstations and Sun Ray thin clients, as well as Sun Workgroup Servers and Enterprise Servers with supported Sun graphics accelerators installed.
Learn what’s behind the world’s first open source CPU and the dynamic OpenSPARC community in this Sun Net Talk available on demand. Listen in as expert panelists, including Darryl Gove and Simon Phipps, explore the many opportunities that OpenSPARC offers to developers and architects.
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 108 Issue 4, were:
Zone Migration - New Feature Makes Container Migration Easier [17725]
White Paper: Benefits of Using Sun Cluster 3.2 Software with Oracle 10g R2 RAC [17740]
Three-way Server "Shootout" Pits Dell, HP, Sun Against One Another [17722]
What to Expect with OpenOffice.org 2.2: Read Kai Sommerfeld [17704]
IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker Reports Sun Gained Market Share for Fourth Straight Quarter [17742]
High Rankings for Enterprise Tape Library from Sun [17732]
Sun Offers BakBone NetVault Backup: Automatic Configuration of Backup Devices [17718]
Before You Upgrade to MS Office 2007, Check Out OpenOffice.org 2 [17726]
Sun senior engineer Sean Mullan brings his knowledge of Java technology and XML security to the Sun Developer Network site (SDN) with a tech tip that explains the Java XML Digital Signature API. Mullan provides an overview of XML signatures and how to use the API in your applications.
Developer San Shin has created a "Struts Basics Lab" in response to the increasing interest shown in Struts as a popular web application framework based on MVC (Model-View-Controller) architecture. San Shin's lab will teach the fundamental concept, architecture, and features of Struts 1.1 by building and deploying simple Struts applications, following a step-by-step guide using NetBeans IDE.
Looking for a how-to on building "web 2.0 applications" with jMaki? Carla Mott provides a step-by-step example of "how to use one of the layout templates, various widgets, the dynamic container and the glue feature that are part of jMaki to quickly build a web 2.0 application."
Develop MIDP clients for your business services - without writing any of your own protocol code - by using the Business 2 Mobile plugin from Net Caboodle. The download is available online.
The Sun BluePrints document "Beginners Guide to LDoms: Understanding and Deploying Logical Domains" by Tony Shoumack walks readers through how to set up, deploy and manage logical domains.
This detailed BigAdmin feature explains the differences of using Solaris JumpStart software on the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) for x86/x64 as compared to using it on SPARC platforms.
Distinguished Sun Engineer Glenn Faden evaluates Sun's and Red Hat's trusted operating systems in a comprehensive article on the BigAdmin website. Faden compares MLS features of Trusted Extensions with RHEL5 LSPP.
The Sun Update Manager software is one part of the Sun Update Connection, System Edition 1.0 software that enables you to locally manage updates on your system. The release notes for version 1.0.9 list enhancements or new features included in this release.
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