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].
The Sun Systems Performance Plus pack is available now through June 8, 2007 on a special offer. The Sun Systems Performance Plus Pack delivers a Sun server, exceptional Sun support and the necessary services required for implementation, optimization and management of an IT investment. The package is designed to maximize the value of your Sun products and technologies.
If you'd like some insurance on passing the certification exams for most Java technology and Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) classes administered between March 21 and June 23, 2007, you can purchase the ability to take the exam one additional time without cost. The initial exam and the retake exam must be taken within 12 months of purchase. This offer is available in most countries around the world.
Enter the GlassFish V2 Beta Download Contest by sharing your experiences with the GlassFish V2 Beta and get a chance to win an Apple iPod Nano. This contest runs until May 18, 2007. Winners are selected every two weeks.
If you have been running your web applications on the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Perl/Python) and want to compare results with how they would run on the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS), Sun has a promotion for just that purpose: Sun AMPlify Your Web Tier Challenge.
The new Netra X4200 M2 server is NEBS Level 3 Certified and powered by AMD Opteron processor. This server is based on the Sun Fire X4200 M2 server announced in October 2006 and supports the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS), Red Hat and SUSE Linux, and Windows.
Trying to convince an organization to change its behavior and philosophy is like moving a boulder with a toothpick. To overcome the problems and find a new way to start a new line of products, John Fowler turned to humor to get everyone on board with a new product line at Sun. That same humor is still evident today as Fowler waxes poetic about a new product to be announced by Sun in a few months.
David Yen will lead a new group at Sun that will work on cryptography, network and high-performance computing. This Microelectronics group will serve OEMs and existing Systems businesses. The group will work on high-speed networking silicon designs and the next generation of open-sourced chip multi-threading processors.
Sun recently celebrated its 25th birthday and a look back by Andy Bechtolsheim, Bill Joy, Vinod Khosla and Scott McNealy about the early days at Sun, although from a year ago, still provides a valuable and enjoyable interview. Moderated by John Gage, the discussion took place at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, as part of the Odysseys in Technology speaker series. See the interview online for full details and more stories.
Solaris WiFi team is working on adding support for some of the most popular wireless network cards to Solaris. All of the drivers and tools produced by the team will be pre-released to the OpenSolaris community and then integrated into Solaris.
The new and improved M2 version of the Sun Ultra 40 workstation got a thumbs up review from Mark Clarkson. See why he says it's "a powerful brute, pricey, but powerful."
Cadalyst contributing editor Patrick Davis recently published his review of the Sun Ultra 20 M2 workstation. The quiet workstation ran problem-free in this series of tests.
The product notes for the Sun Ultra 20 M2 workstation explain procedures to correct some hardware and BIOS issues, and other issues that relate to Linux, Windows, and the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS).
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 109 Issue 3, were:
Enter Your Video in the Java Mobile Application Video Contest [17827]
Sun Fire CoolThreads Servers Trade-in Promotion Extended to June 1, 2007 [17829]
Half-billion Dollar Revenue Mark Reached for CoolThreads Servers Shipped [17859]
At the recent 17th Annual Jolt Product Excellence Awards, the NetBeans IDE won an award for Best Development Environment. The NetBeans Mobility Pack 5.5 and the NetBeans Visual Web Pack both received Community Awards for mobile development and web development respectively.
Believe it! The folks at netbeans.org want developers to be happy so they have assembled the Top 10 Reasons to Switch to NetBeans. The NetBeans IDE is more than just a tool for developing cross-platform desktop, mobile and web applications that are based on industry standards utilizing the latest technologies with a full-featured integrated development environment for Java Software Developers.
Attention gamers: Try your hand at Temple of the Sun. To win you need only finish the game with the highest score among all players who also complete the game. Sounds easy, right? Read on.
An extensive article on the Sun Developer Network (SDN) explains how to develop on the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) with Java programming language to deploy to GNOME.
The goal of a new project is to develop a Google Web Toolkit module for the NetBeans IDE. The end result is to help developers smoothly combine the superior support for creating Web Applications built into the NetBeans IDE with the power of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT).
View examples of how to solve real-world business problems with Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) in a set of videos from Sun featuring
Mark Thacker, a Sun product manager. Video selections cover an overview of Solaris 10 security features, Limiting and Protecting Network Services, and Trusted Extensions.
Learn the "power of DTrace" from a new white paper (March 2007). Roy Cecil, a member of technical staff with the Market Development Engineering Department at Sun has written a 14-page guide that explains the debugging tool and how it takes advantage of points of instrumentation in the Solaris OS to present information useful for debugging errors and investigating performance issues in applications running on the Solaris platform.
Tomas Brandalik's blog provides a two-part tutorial on getting started with the Mobile Internationalization API (JSR 238), the standard for creating localized applications based on the Java ME platform. Additional resources are also listed such as a download link and 2006 JavaOne Conference presentation.
Recent podcasts from the Java ME page cover topics such as using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and the NetBeans Mobility Pack, using SVG without changing code to build dynamic and rich applications, and Hyperion's Mobile Designer authoring tool for SVG tiny with Netbeans Mobility Pack. Also find a six-part series on the Personal Information Management (PIM) API.
Mark Basler, Sean Brydon, Dana Nourie and Inderjeet Singh have written a Sun Developer Network piece called "Introducing the Java Pet Store 2.0 Application." The Java Pet Store 2.0 reference application and its use cases, design, and implementation can teach users about building an application with similar functionality.
The footprint of Java SE 5.0 has been reduced for x86 Linux to 30MB. It has the same reliability as it Java SE desktop/server kin and is fully Java headless compliant. Try the evaluation today.
Sylvia Carr of silicon.com spoke with James Gosling and published her interview under the title "Gosling: Java and the future of tech tools". The gist of his comments? Openness breeds trust — and more secure software.
The third edition of "Big Java" by Cay Horstmann (March 2007) has been updated to include Java 6. Horstmann emphasizes that it is important to keep in mind the outcome of the code as you are writing it, to test as you develop so as to design better programs.
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