Sun's Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region makes up nearly 40 percent of the company's business, and just this week Sun announced it is giving the responsibility of this region's sales and services team to a new senior vice president - Alain Andreoli.
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Mark Herring, senior director at Sun's Network.com, told eWEEK that Sun is offering distributors and OEMs backline support for the OpenOffice.org productivity suite. He also announced a new StarOffice server product that converts documents in any of the 40 formats supported by the office suite into a PDF or ODF document, and which can process about 100 documents a minute.
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With an increasing concern about servers' energy use, the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) has developed a new benchmark that evaluates the power and performance characteristics of volume server class computers. The SPECpower_ssj2008 provides a means to measure power (at the AC input) along with a performance metric.
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A CommunityOne event will be taking place in San Francisco on May 5th, and a call for participation is currently open for interested members of the free and open source community to submit suggestions for sessions. CommunityOne free events allow the community to define the content while Sun takes care of the space, sustenance, and invites.
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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 News on NetApp/Sun ZFS Lawsuit, Installing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 on Sun x64 Servers, and System Performance as an Aspect of CPUs and Architecture.
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