Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz applauded the earnings announcement this week, (Sun made $473 million on revenues of $13.873 billion), highlighting the point that the goals set were the goals met: revenue went up and operating expenses went down. See News article [18439].

A new survey by Sun has found that habits people have at home to save energy can also be used at work. Article [18445] lists ways to save energy and reduce power consumption.

Sun has updated the LDoms beginners guide [18440]. Sun Cluster 3.1 and 3.2 now support the ATCA CP3010 SPARC Blade and the Netra 240 server; see [18421]. This blade was one of the products that saw a lot of growth, according to the Sun Investor Relations page.

Solaris Cluster Express 7/07 for OpenSolaris [19435] is available for download as are the sources and binaries for pNFS [18373].

Microsoft Vista is now support on Sun's AMD-baded Workstations [18420] which set a new world record running the SPEC APC UGS-NX3 graphics oriented MCAD benchmark [18358].

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In big news this week, Sun and IBM have reached an agreement to make Solaris OS available and supported on certain IBM servers. See News article [18517].

Forrester and Evans Data each reveal positive outcomes for Sun based on recent surveys. An Evans Data Survey of developers working with Web Services found the Java platform gaining favor among developers over .Net developments (see article [18473]). Forrester Wave reports that the Sun Java CAPS application has improved since their previous survey (see [18501]).

For an example of who is using NetBeans, see article [18464] for screenshots of a Boeing aircraft analysis application. If you need to find out about test tools for NetBeans, see article [18449] for information on JUnit and Jemmy. Developers will want to keep up on the conversation about proposed changes to the Java programming language; read Danny Coward's views in article [18486].

The contributions of Sun employees is what makes the company what it is. Read about one employee's experience in Feature article [18470].

There's plenty about the Solaris OS this week, from PAM authentication [18475] to installation of the Sun Java Identity Management Suite on Solaris 10 OS [18433].

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The latest IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker shows Sun maintaining its lead in the UNIX market (see article [18551]). A new server benchmark for the Sun SPARC Enterprise T2000 server with the UltraSPARC T1 resulted in a high performance result [18560].

The UltraSPARC T2 processor's Crypto Accelerator is discussed in article [18539]. Also in the Security section are Sun Alerts for Solaris OS [18541] [18538] and the JRE [18552].

Details on the Sun SPARC M5000 Server have been added to the Sun Configuration Diagram Templates [18559].

Learn more about Sun server virtualization technologies of Solaris Containers and Logical Domains from a recent Sun BluePrints document [18520].

If you have been wondering what the Amazon S3 Storage Utility Service costs, take a look at article [18527] where Paul Monday provides an example of the planning process he went through when considering using the storage utility or building his own.

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Sun's Microelectronics division will begin selling the new UltraSPARC T2 processor, enabling Sun to compete in this market. Get the technical details in article [18461]. There is a new beta program also [18466].

Also new this week is a lower cost virtual tape library, the Sun StorageTek Virtual Tape Library Value system with 24 TB of raw capacity [18472]. It is built on the Sun Fire X4500 server, which is discussed in a Sun Expert Exchange [18465].

One way to try these products and others from Sun is to check out the Sun Try & Buy program [18452]. Another promotion offers a Sun Blade Starter Kit at 25 percent off [18456], and Sun has expanded its Startup Essentials program to India and China, to allow new businesses that qualify to get discounts on Sun technology (see article [18472]).

Scott McNealy was recently in India, talking with customers; see article [18450] to learn more on his keynotes there and in Japan.

Since Sun introduced JavaFX a few months ago, a new compiler has been released [18448], there are more resources online such as a podcast [18444] and a tech tip [18442].

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Sun is taking its commitment to the environment seriously by making its own data centers energy efficient. Three, new centers in the US, the UK and India take advantage of Sun's eco-friendly servers to reduce energy costs and the impact on the environment; see article [18533].

To help their customers achieve the same goals, Sun is offering three new Eco Ready Kits (see [18532]) that can help customers assess their data center energy efficiency and optimize or refresh their hardware.

Sun's "green" technologies will be showcased at the GITEX technology event in Dubai. Students in Indian universities can enter a new open source contest (see 18531]). Open source continues to make headway in Malaysia, with the government creating a new planning unit just for promoting open source adoption [18506].

In open source tech tips this week, we have a Glassfish technical article from Carol McDonald [18503]. Educators can find updated curriculum guides for the OpenSolaris project [18528]. There is also a security tool for OpenSolaris now available [18500].

For those who need more details on the Solaris OS support on IBM BladeCenter, see a white paper in article [18519].

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