Leading the news is Sun's continued profitability [18017] and a new video streaming system [18016]. Find out what Java technologies are available for Ubuntu users [17995]. Java developers will also be interested in the Flying Duke Competition at the upcoming JavaOne Conference [17996] and the open source related sessions at the conference [17997].
Following up on the Sun SPARC Enterprise server announcement of last week, we have some technical details on the Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 server in article [17998]. There are also some benchmark results for the Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server in article [18008]. Sun Management Center 3.6.1 supports the new SPARC servers; download the software from article [18006].
We also have more details on the low-cost storage arrays introduced [17965]. Get a discount on certain Sun StorageTek NAS systems [17957]. See also two other promotions for the new SPARC servers: article [17991] and [17990].
Purchase a new Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 or M5000 server and get free Sun Enterprise Installation Services (EIS) between now and July 17, 2007. These mid-range servers are highly scalable virtualization/consolidation systems optimized for 24x7 mission critical computing.
Combine the cost-saving benefits of Sun StorageTek arrays and NAS products with the power and performance of Sun servers and save money.
Take 10 percent off select Sun StorageTek arrays or 15 percent off select Sun StorageTek NAS products when you purchase a qualifying Sun server at a discount.
Buy one of the new Sun SPARC Enterprise servers and, after 24 monthly payments, you can return the system to Sun and renew the 30-month financing contract for a new, similarly sized, "next generation" Sun system, when such system is made available by Sun. Anytime during months 25-30, customers may trigger this "return & upgrade" option.
Sun is offering a $100 Best Buy gift card and $100 discount (U.S. dollars) to those who enroll in and complete any four- or five-day traditional Classroom or Live Virtual Class course from Sun by June 30.
Sun introduced a new IPTV/video on demand (VOD) platform for cable
and telecommunications operators; it's called the Sun Streaming
System. Operators can offer customers personalized television
services at a lower cost than is traditionally associated with this
service. Subscriber content can be customized, advertising can be targeted
(permission-based), and high-definition video streaming can be offered
on demand. The system can scale to offer new services and is designed
to take advantage of new consumer-oriented computing markets. The system
does not use a cable box.
Sun's revenues for the third quarter of fiscal 2007 increased 3.3 percent (in comparison to the third quarter of fiscal 2006). Sun generated a net
income of $67 million, or 2 cents per share, for the first three months
of the year. This is Sun's second profitable quarter in a row since the
dot-com crash era.
Two vulnerability alerts have been released: one for a vulnerability in the Sun Java Web Console that may allow access to privileged data or lead to Denial of Service; and the other for a possible system panic in the Sun Fire 12K/15K/E20K/E25K servers (domains with 32 or more logical CPUs running Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) with patch 118822-24 or later).
The May meeting of the OpenSolaris user groups will be held on May 14th, 15th and 16th in Ft. Lauderdale, Tampa and Orlando. The speaker will be Bill Nelson (VP Professional Services, GCA Technology Services), author of Sun's Web, Directory, and Identity Manager courses. Bill will talk about Identity Management.
You will be able to attend the May meetings in person, via conference call or via the Web with WebEx. The formal presentation will be at a new time, 5:30pm.
Jeremy Reimer accepted an invitation to have a look at Sun's Project Blackbox and liked what he saw. Project Blackbox, he reminds readers, is the code name for Sun's new mobile datacenter, a computing facility that fits in a standard 20 foot shipping container whose surrounding infrastructure is hooked up to a semi trailer.
Project BlackBox will be on show in Orlando, FL May 22,23,24.
Tour Details
Programmer and writer Paul Graham asserts the "Microsoft is dead" because no one fears them any longer. He identifies four factors that he believes "killed" Microsoft, staring with Google.
Take advantage of Sun's Anniversary sale prices and get StarOffice 8 software for less, from now until May 7, 2007. Download the software from the Sun website for only $34.95 (U.S.).
Larry Wake, the Solaris group manager, talked to TechWorld.com about some assertions made by Novell's Adrian Keward (who used to be at Sun) and explained that while Sun's roots are in hardware, it is becoming more of a software company.
The 3.6.1 release of Sun Management Center (Version 2 Add-On) Software provides support for the new Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000, M5000, M8000 and M9000 servers
The Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 server is one of the new servers Sun introduced last week (article [17987]) that bring mainframe features to you for less than a mainframe. This high-end server can have up to 16 high performance dual core SPARC64 VI processors and up to 512 GB memory.
The IDC white paper "The SunFire X4500: Addressing New Workloads with a New Blender of Server and Storage" by Matthew Eastwood and Jean S. Bozman assesses this server designed for the demands of Web 2.0
Learn how to deploy and tune the JBoss Application Server (JBoss AS) on Sun Fire T2000 server systems in a BigAdmin feature article written by Viet Pham of Sun Microsystems and Phillip Thurmond of JBoss.
A recent review of the Sun Fire X2200 M2 server by Don MacAskill, CEO of an online photo sharing site called SmugMug.com applauds the server's lights-out management (LOM) capabilities and the design of the server.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 (2.4GHz SPARC64 VI) set a World Record on the SPECompL2001 benchmark with a score of 1230446 and on the SPECompLbase2001 benchmark with a score of 1148235.
A recent Sun Developer Network
article illustrates why upgrading to Sun StorEdge SAN Foundation Software, codenamed Leadville Fibre Channel (FC) stack, offers significant advantages over the traditional SCSI emulation drivers while providing critical new capabilities for customers linking their servers running the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) to SANs.
Sun introduced a new series of storage arrays that are based on a new low-cost SAS/SATA disk subsystem, providing consolidated RAID to FC, and SAS host interfaces. The new ST2500 series includes the Sun StorageTek 2540 FC array, 2530 SAS array and 2501 SAS Expansion array with Integrated Services (Sun System Packs).
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 110 Issue 3, were:
Fujitsu And Sun Microsystems Announce New Servers with SPARC Processors [17987]
New World-Record Setting Modular Disk Low-Cost Array: Sun StorageTek ST2500 [17988]
Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 Server: Up to 128 GB Memory and 2 Dynamic Domains [17993]
Low-Cost Storage: Sun StorageTek 2500 Arrays [17985]
The 2007 JavaOne Conference will feature many sessions related to open source technologies and issues. One of the sessions will be held during the Java Technology Business Day and will as questions such as: How will Sun's decision to open source its Java technology implementations drive adoption, innovation, and open new markets? What else might change in the Java ecosystem?
The availability of OpenOffice.org 2.2 not only offers users protection from newly discovered vulnerabilities and significant enhancements to its word processor, spreadsheet, presentations and database software, it also improves its functionality with Microsoft's Windows Vista and Apple Mac.
Advance your OpenOffice.org macro programming skills and save on writing time by creating graphical user interfaces for your macros in just a few easy steps. Dmitri Popov demonstrates this process by creating an advanced macro in his recent article "OOoBasic crash course: Adding GUI goodness" hosted by linux.com.
Version 2.5.1 of the Sun Java Wireless Toolkit (formerly known as J2ME Wireless Toolkit) has improved API implementations and bug fixes. The primary feature of this release is that the Sun Java Wireless Toolkit will also supply a release on the Linux operating system.
Browse the all new NetBeans Sample Catalog for a comprehensive collection of NetBeans sample applications spanning the latest enterprise, web, mobile, and desktop technologies. Among the attractions: a how-to on developing a weblog in less than 10 minutes using Ruby; creating a mobile-to-Web service application using Java ME; and producing UML class diagrams from existing Java technology code.
Sun software developer Tamil Vengan provides a tech tip with an example of a mashup with AJAX to illustrate how to compile it and deploy it on Sun Java System Web Server 7.0.
Even with POSIX functionality in common between the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) and Linux, and compliance of Linux to the Linux Standard Base (LSB) 2.0, there can still be challenges when porting applications from Linux to the Solaris OS. A porting guide from Sun outlines issues and presents tools to assist with migration.
A tech tip from the Sun BigAdmin site explains how to add device support to the Solaris Operating System by attaching an existing Solaris driver to a new device.
Listen up, programmers. The Virtual Flying Dukes competition is on the horizon. The contest opens May 7, 2007. Winners will create and animate a 3D avatar that catches a t-shirt launched from a virtual stage using jMonkeyEngine (jME) Prizes will be awarded to the first 50 contestants who correctly solve the problem, with larger prizes for the most creative, humorous, and realistic solutions.
Vivek Pandey explains on his blog what happened to the download link for Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) 2.1 Reference Implementation (RI). The link problem has been fixed.
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