Look for a new system soon from Sun featuring the new Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 7300. The system was demo'd this week (see News article [18608]). Another award illustrates the quality of Sun products -- Gartner has named Sun in the Leaders Quadrant of their Magic Quadrant for User Provisioning (see [18603]).

Learn about recent changes in OpenSolaris with Tim Foster's podcast [18583] and how project Indiana [18604] will attract Linux users to Solaris.

To keep prices competitive, Sun has re-priced the Netra X4200 2 server [18592]. For more savings act before the Sun Fire X4600 M2 server promotion expires September 30 -- (see [18609]).

The Sun SPARC Enterprise servers have garnered praise from the Gabriel Consulting Group (see [18530].

For sys admins this week, we have tech tips on the Solaris OS [18588] and DTrace [18600].

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Wondering what Sun was thinking when they announced an expanded relationship with Microsoft? Now find out what was in the minds of Jonathan Schwartz and Greg Papadopoulos in News article [18651].

GlassFish 2 is now available with clustering and more [18650].

What role does storage play in Sun's Eco Initiative? Find out from Nigel Dessau in article [18630]. Take a look at the SPC/1 benchmark featuring Sun storage technologies [18648].

There's more this week on the latest Solaris OS update, Solaris 10 8/07 OS. There is an installation guide for novices working on the Solaris 10 8/07 OS on x86 systems [18628]. Read about the ZFS enhancements in article [18631]. Learn about eTude, which will allow Solaris 8 apps to run in a Solaris 10 containers.

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Sun and Microsoft make the news again, this time with they have expanded their alliance: Sun will sell Windows Server on its x64 hardware and will provide additional utilities and value-added software offerings to server systems carrying Windows Server. Read more in article [18624].

Another big announcement this week details update 4 of the Solaris OS -- Solaris 10 8/07. It has more mature Solaris Containers technology and more. See the details in [18625].

Sun has announced that it will buy CFS, the company which makes the Lustre file system [18623]. Product announcements include the X8840 [18621] Sun Blade 8000 blade and the 9985V [18620] addition to Sun's storage virtualization portfolio.

There is a new software from Sun this week: Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (Sun VDI) Software. It provides a highly-secure platform for accessing virtualized Microsoft Windows desktop environments from a wide variety of client devices when installed on the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS). See [18622].

Have you ever worked in a 3D environment online? See what Sun Labs is cooking up with the MPK20 project [18617].

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Sun Introduced the SunFire X4150 and X4450 - Sun's first quad-core x64 (x86, 64-bit) systems based on Intel processors [18640]. Watch a video of the launch [18690] and see how the X4150 and Intel architecture compares to AMD Opteron, Sun Fire X4100 M2 and Sun Fire X2200 M2 [18689].

Sun also launched OpenEco.org [18684] this week and released the Solaris Express Developer Edition 9/07 Software with a new Solaris Installer and GUI front end tool for DTrace [18676].

Get more details on what's new in the Solaris 10 8/07 Operating System (Solaris OS) [18629], the Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 [18642] and the upcoming Sun Java System Federated Access Manager 8.0's architecture and roadmap [18673].

Find out why Gartner has upgraded Sun's vendor rating to "promising" [18665] and how Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software could ease customers' Vista woes [18668].

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