Check out Smugmug.com CEO Don MacAskill's blog to find out why the online photo
sharing service chose Sun X2200 M2 servers over HP, Dell, IBM and Rackable
servers. "[Sun's] engineering rocks. ZFS is drool-worthy, Thumper is
a cool piece of hardware, Sun Spots are innovative, and Black Box is just
pimp. I'm a geek, what can I say?"
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After trying Sun servers, dating Web site eHarmony bought three Sun Fire x64 servers
to run Oracle, serving its 14M+ registered users. Prior to using Sun servers,
eHarmony used Dell 6800 series machines. "The power consumption [of the
Sun servers] was the absolute lowest we could find, and then we found the
performance was outstanding," eHarmony's Mark Douglas said. Sun is "the
only real hardware company doing engineering."
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A large database marketing firm saved $400K one-time and $100K/year in software
licensing by migrating its Oracle_perl data warehouse to open source PostgreSQL.
After 20 outages in four months on Linux, migration consultant OmniTI switched
the marketing firm to Solaris 10 increasing stability and reliability.
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DVD trading site Peerflix increased membership and vistor-to-member conversion
rates by replacing its .NET Web application platform with a more scalable,
reliable and cost-effective platform based on Sun Fire x64 servers, the Solaris
10 Operating System and Sun Java System Application Server.
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A new feature added to Sun's online grid utility service, Network.com, is an application catalog. In the catalog are applications customers can choose from to use on a pay-per-use model. Applications include a protein and DNA sequence program and a mixed-level/mixed-signal circuit simulator.
Sterling Commerce, a subsidiary of AT&T, tested its Sterling Customer Order Management application software on Sun Fire E25K server and three Sun Fire E6900 servers, all running UltraSPARC IV+ dual-core processors and the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) to achieve a benchmark that set new standards in order management processing performance.
For the first time, Sun Tech Days went to Malaysia (March 6-8, 2007). The theme at the event in Kuala Lumpur was "Unlock Opportunity". Over 1500 people participated to learn about the latest technologies and tools from Sun. The conference highlighted the key messages of how participation, sharing and collaboration can help boost the local developer community.
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