The first commercial release of Sun xVM Ops Center is expected to be available on Jan. 8, 2008, and its open source version hosted on OpenxVM.org will be receiving code releases from Sun, starting with the contribution of the Common Agent Container (CAC) source code on Dec. 10, under the GNU General Public License version three (GPLv3).
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Sun's newly announced Open Source Community Innovation Awards Program will recognize some of the most interesting initiatives within Sun-sponsored open source communities with prizes totaling approximately $1 million (USD) a year. Specific program details are to be announced January 14th.
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A new IBM-tuned version of OpenSolaris is expected to be ready soon, according to David Noyes, president and CTO of Sine Nomine Associates, who demonstrated the enterprise-level system running on a System z mainframe during the Gartner Data Center Conference 2007.
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Sun has won a million dollar (AUD) contract to provide eco-friendly server hardware to Macquarie Hosting. The Sydney, Australia-based Web host and division of Macquarie Telecom, selected Sun over its incumbent supplier Hewlett Packard (HP) in large part due to Sun's ability to significantly reduce the organization's carbon footprint.
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The "Good News" from Sun for December 2007 includes the company delivering its 7th straight quarter of revenue growth in the server market, its fourth consecutive quarter of profit and sixth consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth, Dell offering rack or blade servers with the Solaris OS or OpenSolaris, among others. Also see Sun's competitive advantage, customers' business results using Sun technology, plus much more.
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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 How Much is that Power in the Cabinet?(Sun Blade 6048), DTrace Documentation/Wikis and Sun's VMworld 2007 Sessions On-line.
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