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22 Oct 2007
#18869
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New Sun Ultra 24 Workstation Powered by Intel's Core 2 Duo and Quad Processors
One of the Fastest Quad-Core, Single-Socket Workstations Available
The Sun Ultra 24 workstations are Sun's first quad-core x64 workstations powered by Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Core 2 Quad and Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad-Core processors. They are designed for high performance and can easily handle processor-intensive tasks in demanding multitasking environments; plus they offer six workstation-class graphics accelerator cards, including the NVIDIA Quadro FX5600 graphics board, and the new PCI-Express Gen2 graphics bus for maximum graphics performance.
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22 Oct 2007
#18823
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Sun Fire X4500 (Thumper) Setting World Record Price/Performance Results
Using Solaris 10 and Sybase IQ, Solaris 10 and DB2
The Sun Fire X4500 (codenamed Project Thumper) has recorded two world record price/performance results on the TPC-H benchmark. One was achieved with the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) and Sybase IQ 12.6, resulting in $8.11/QphH@1000GB. The other was with the Solaris 10 OS and IBM's DB2 9.1, which recorded a price/performance of $29.39 per QphH@3000GB.
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22 Oct 2007
#18882
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Sun Plans Countersuit Against Network Appliance (NetApp)
Seeking Removal of Products from Market, Monetary Damages
Sun President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz says Sun will respond to storage vendor Network Appliance's suit filed last month that claims Zettabyte File System (ZFS) violates its company's patents with a countersuit, which will request "a permanent injunction to remove all of (NetApp's) filer products from the marketplace." Schwartz says he initially attempted to resolve this dispute with Net App CEO Dan Warmenhoven, but his demands are infeasible.
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22 Oct 2007
#18890
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Atom Publishing Protocol Published, Now a Proposed Standard
Protocol Will Ease Web Posting
The Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub), an application-level protocol for publishing and editing web resources using HTTP and XML 1.0, has been published under Request for Comment (RFC) 5023. This protocol is important because it will make it easier to post to the web, commented Tim Bray, Sun's director of web technologies and co-chair of the standard.
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22 Oct 2007
#18852
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SNI Editor-in-Chief/CTO John J. McLaughlin's Blog Recap
Recent Blog Entries of Interest to Sun Users
SNI Editor-in-Chief/CTO John J. McLaughlin posts items of interest to Sun Users on a
regular basis on his blog. A quick recap of John's posts for the last week, include Sun To File Suite Against NetApp; The New Quad-Core x64 Sun Workstation, the Sun Ultra 24; Solaris 8 Migration Assistant 1.0 (Project Etude); Logical Domains (LDoms) 1.0.1; Sun's Open Source Massively Multiplayer Online Games; 10GbE on Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120/T5220; 10 Things IBM Likes About Solaris 10; and Try and Buy New Sun Servers.
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22 Oct 2007
#18870
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Sun's Startup Camp Hosted 300 Entrepreneurs in NYC
Find Out About 7 Mistakes Startups Should Avoid
Sun's Startup Camp event in New York City earlier this month brought together some 300 entrepreneurs to network, share advice and learn from the experiences of other startups and vendors. Information Week's John Foley found the event not only provided emerging companies with advice on how to be successful, but also on what to avoid, which he summarized into seven deadly startup mistakes.
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