Sun Studio 12 software is the subject of a few new videos: One SDN video features Don Kretsch, senior director of Developer Tools at Sun, who discusses Sun Studio 12's latest features, new compilers and its new point-and-click IDE, based on NetBeans 5.5.1. See article [18304].
Another video features Gordon Prieur, Sun staff engineer and project lead for Sun Studio IDE, who discusses some features and covers which platform is best for which developers. See [18321]. A quick-start tutorial is also available; see [18306].
Results from a single-threaded Postmark test marked the Solaris ZFS processing over 4,000 transactions per second more than Microsoft. During BenchW testing, Solaris ZFS demonstrated improvement over Microsoft in unindexed and indexed queries. For more details of these tests, see article [18307].
Want to minimize downtime associated with patching? See the white paper that explains setting up Solaris Live Upgrade [18279]. Another white paper this week focuses on installing the Greenplum database on Solaris 10 OS [18287].
Save up to 25 percent off one of these two Sun Blade Starter Kits: Sun Blade 6000 or Sun Blade 8000 system. Sun Blade modular systems are designed specifically to improve data center efficiency and utilization. When you purchase a starter kit, you can get select Oracle licenses and support or VMware ESX Server licenses at 25 percent off also.
The "Armor Your Assets" promotion has been extended to September 30, 2007. Purchase two or more Sun StorageTek T10000 drives, KMS Integration Services, and KMS country kits and choose either a free tape drive, accessory kit or Sun StorageTek Crypto Key Management Station.
Many Sun products and technologies made the list of winners in the 2007 SOAWorld Readers' Choice Awards, including the Sun Java Application Server in the Best App Server category and the Java Web Services Developer Pack in the Best Framework category.
One the goals of the OpenSPARC project -- to significantly increase participation in processor architecture development and application design by making cutting-edge hardware intellectual property freely available -- is happening: Sun has announced that OpenSPARC T1 has surpassed 5,000 downloads.
On his blog, Jonathan Schwartz talks about Sun's strategy to get back into the world of High Performance Computing (HPC). Changes at Sun in line with that strategy include the Niagara processors and OpenSolaris. He also gives technical details on the newly unveiled Project Magnum.
There are many videos about Sun on YouTube.com and on Sun blogs. Here are a few, including an interview with Sun's DTrace team, one with John Gage, Sun chief researcher and VP, and a video of the Sun Blade 6000 Modular System.
The BBC is running a series of interviews online with leading technologists to speculate about the future. Greg Papadopoulos, CTO of Sun, called for simplifying technology more such as making voicemail easier to use.
Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Update 1 is now available. The development team says it is a "highly stable and enterprise grade quality Web Server with latest JSP and Servlet implementation built-in." The update has bug fixes, performance enhancement and security fixes as well as new features.
Update 1 of the Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 is now available to download as a full product installation. This Web server is designed for medium and large sites and is part of the Solaris Enterprise System.
Get basic steps on developing a C, C++ or Fortran application using the new Sun Studio 12 IDE from a quick-start tutorial guide hosted on the Sun Developer Network (SDN).
Find out how you can overcome the limits of traditional backup mechanisms in a Sun Developer Network article that explains the Sun StorageTek Storage Archive Manager (SAM), Sun StorageTek QFS software and the LibSAM library.
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 112 Issue 4, were:
Solaris ZFS vs. Red Hat Enterprise Linux EXT3 White Paper [18259]
Sun Constellation System: HPC for Weather Forecasting and Climate Modeling [18274]
eWEEK Labs recently tested OpenOffice.org 2.2 and did a slight comparison to Microsoft Office 2007. Tiffany Maleshefski acknowledged improvements within both; however, she noted that OpenOffice.org 2.2's enhancements were pervasive, its broad platform support impressive and, best of all, it is free.
The Navy and Marine Corps commands have been given clearance to use open source software (OSS), so states Navy CIO Robert J. Carey in a June 5th memo, which notes "the importance of OSS to the warfighter and the need to leverage its benefits throughout the DON" (Department of the Navy) is now recognized.
The Aquarium blog entry dated July 5, 2007, features a link to a screencast on GlassFish integration features in NetBeans 6 IDE. Version 6 of the IDE is set to be released in November 2007 with new features such as GlassFish integration capabilities. A new screencast shows some of NetBeans' latest GlassFish-integration features in action.
The fifth article in a series on Sun's Open-Source Portal Initiative looks at the JavaServer Faces (JSF) Portlet Bridge. Deepak Gothe and Marina Sum explain the design and binary of the JSF Portlet Bridge, how to modify JSF applications to comply with JSF 168: Portlet Specification and the Portlet's Bridge's tag library.
The Sun Java System Access Manager is the topic of a Sun Developer Network article that uses a fictitious health-care insurance company to demonstrate how this identity and access management solution can secure Web applications and services with authentication, single sign-on and authorization capabilities.
Sun Developer Network (SDN) Channel is hosting a video on how Sun Studio 12 can assist in multi-threaded development. The discussion covers Sun Studio 12's latest features, new compilers and its new point-and-click IDE, based on NetBeans 5.5.1. Sun Studio is a free platform designed for C, C++ and Fortran development.
This is advanced notice, but upcoming on August 20, 2007, there will be an Ask the Experts session on Mobile Service Architecture (MSA), JSR 248, so plug the date into your calendar now.
Sun Developer Network (SDN) members can download a no-cost, 90-day evaluation or an Academic Developer Use evaluation copy of the Sun Java Real-Time System (Java RTS) 2.0.
Solaris ZFS is the topic of two white papers, each of which offers a comparative analysis between Sun's zettabyte file system and either the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 NTFS or the Veritas File System.
A Sun BluePrints document explains how to replace an existing Web proxy implementation that uses the SQUID Web proxy server software deployed on x86 servers and change to using the Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000 server and the Sun Java System Web Proxy Server software.
Minimize downtime associated with patching by using Solaris Live Upgrade software and learn how to patch mirrored systems from a new Sun BluePrints document (June 2007) by Jeff Smith.
In a Sun BigAdmin feature article, Don Turnbull explains how to install and configure the Greenplum database (GreenplumDB) on the Solaris 10 11/06 Operating System (Solaris OS) for x86 platforms. Best for read-mostly applications such as data warehousing, GreenplumDB is an open source, parallel, clustered implementation of PostgreSQL.
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