SNI Editor-in-Chief/CTO John J. McLaughlin posts items of interest to Sun Users regularly on his blog. Some of those items will become detailed articles in this newsletter. Here's a quick recap of John's posts for the last week:

A Million Page Views per Year by 200k+ Visitors

SNI has been using Google Analytics to track visits to http://sun.systemnews.com. Since the start of 2007, some 212,000 unique visitors have looked at just under 600,000 pages on the site. Just under 72,000 of those unique visitors came directly to the site (27%) while 1,900 other sites referred 5% of the unique visitors. Search engines like the rich, fresh content in the site, so it is no surprise that 68% of the visitors were referred to the site by search engines. Read more.

Sun Java System Directory Server 6.0 as an LDAP Naming Service

A four-part feature articles on BigAdmin, "Sun Java System Directory Server 6.0 as an LDAP Naming Service," describes in great detail how to setup JSDE 6.0 as and LDAP naming service for Solaris 8, 9 and 10 clients. Read more.

BusinessWeek: Solaris Certainly Has a Future

BusinessWeek columnist Peter Burrows used to ask, "Where were the killer Solaris-compliant apps?" Now he writes, "...an interesting thing happened as I did the reporting: I kept running into examples of people who were using Solaris again." Peter gives the example of SmugMug and Ning, Marc Andreesen's social networking start-up using Solaris rather than Linux. John Roberts, CEO of SugarCRM, also told him, "...how impressed he is with Solaris, and with Schwartz...." Read more.

FileBench in OpenSolaris

FileBench, a systems for benchmarking filesystems, is now part of OpenSolaris. You can use FileBench to define benchmarks that have the same characteristics as your own applications. You could then run those benchmarks on different systems or configurations (direct attach vs SAN; tier 1 SAN vs tier 2 SAN; volume manager vs volume manager; disk layout against disk layout) to find optimal configurations. Much better than "time dd if=......"! Read more.

From the latest issue:

Recent Blog Entries as of March 15, 2010, 11:48 am
Can MySQL and Oracle Database Coexist Under Oracle? Glassfish Enterprise Server Version 3's Embedded Server Oracle's Third Fiscal Quarter Earnings Due March 25 Oracle's Open Source Initiatives Sun Unified Storage System 2010.02 Expected Soon	PeopleSoft Benchmark on Sun x64 Hardware Running Oracle Enterprise Linux Use the Deployment Toolkit for Successful Applet Launches Across Mixed Environments Oracle's Xen-based Server Virtualization Could Challenge Competitors Java EE, Oracle VM-VirtualBox Integration, Ops Center Sun Certification Under Oracle
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