Sun reported a first-quarter profit with a net income of $89 million, or 3 cents per share, for the July-September period, which ended Sept. 30. Sales were up 1 percent from last year for a total of $3.219 billion, while its gross profit margin was up five percentage points to 48.5.
With the recent world record set by SAP on Sun T2000 servers, customers can be assured that their IT dollars will be well spent on infrastructure that achieved 10000 SAPS per processor (10850 SAPS/2135 SD User). Scaling was almost perfect with SAP's move from the T1 to the T2 processor, coming in at 1.94. The SAP SD benchmark on the T1 was 1100 and, on the T2, it was 2135, as mentioned above.
Sun Microsystems will be hosting events in the Tampa, Orlando, and Fort Lauderdale area for developers who use Solaris and/or Java to create software. The 2-hour sessions will be held at Sun's office locations. They will include lunch with Solaris and Java experts presenting up-to-date tools, tips, and techniques.
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 CIFS Support Added to OpenSolaris Kernel; ZFS Screencasts; OpenSolaris Community: Storage; Project Indiana Presentation by Dave Minor; and OpenSolaris Developer's Preview (Project Indiana).
A Call for Paper for the 2008 JavaOne Conference has been issued. Proposals for technical and Birds-of-a-Feather (BOFs) sessions are being sought for Sun's 2008 worldwide developer conference set for May 6-9, 2008, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The deadline for paper submissions is November 16th.
The "Good News" from Sun for November 2007 includes the Sun xVM preview, the debuted UltraSPARC T2 servers, the introduction of its first two Quad-Core Intel Xeon-processor-based servers, its certification under J.D. Power and Associates, among others. Also see who has chosen Sun over the competition and why, customers' business results using Sun technology, plus much more.
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