Sun will be buying MySQL AB. Read the details of the planned deal along with Sun CEO and President Jonathan Schwartz's take and access to an audiocast replay of Schwartz, Sun CFO and EVP of Corporate Resources Micheal Lehman, and Sun's VP of Investor Relations Bret Schaefer discussing the acquisition [19311]. In this same replay, the three also review and answer questions on Sun's preliminary financial results for its second quarter of fiscal year 2008 [19312], which shows increases across the board as compared to the same period last year.
In other news, Sun has set a new world record on the Siebel CRM 8.0 PSPP benchmark with Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers, beating IBM POWER6 [19267]. Also recently revealed is the company's plan to eliminate all of its in-house datacenters within the next seven years [19284].
Sun Distinguished Engineer Glenn Brunette has listed the five Solaris 10 OS security features everyone should be using [19270].
Java SE 6 Update 4 [19305] is available for download as is the Java Kernel for Java SE 6 Update N Early Access [19313].
Nearly a half a million Sun certifications have been granted under Sun's certification program, and the company plans on celebrating that mark by granting Sun certified T-shirts to individuals earning their certification in February or March.
Trade in qualified Sun and non-Sun tape libraries to expand Sun StorageTek SL8500 Tape Library capacity and save up to $30,000 with Sun's offer of up to 40 percent off expansion slots at selected capacity levels.
Sun is offering up to 10 percent off Sun StorageTek Linear Tape Open (LTO) Ultrium data cartridges with the purchase of a Sun StorageTek LTO 3 or LTO 4 tape drive. Sun StorageTek LTO Ultrium data cartridges come with a native capacity of 400-800 GB to meet the demands of archiving, backup, and disaster recovery.
Sun will be buying the Swedish software company MySQL AB for approximately US$1 billion. The company will pay about $800 million in cash in exchange for all of MySQL stock and assume about $200 million in options as part of the deal. Sun expects the acquisition to be complete in late third quarter or early fourth quarter of its fiscal 2008, and add to its fiscal operating income in 2010.
Sun announced preliminary results for its second quarter of fiscal 2008 about a week before its official financial report is expected to be released. According to Sun CEO and President Jonathan Schwartz, the results "reflect solid execution and continued operational progress."
Sun Microsystems set a new world record, besting IBM's best X-series results by nearly twice, while running Four Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers (UltraSPARC T2 processors) on the Siebel standard Platform Sizing and Performance Program (PSPP) benchmark suite with Siebel CRM 8.0 Industry Applications and Oracle 10g R2 DB running on the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS).
Sun plans to cut the size of its internal datacenters in half by 2013 and two years after that eliminate them entirely, says Sun Data Center Architect Brian Cinque. Although the 2015 goal was noted as only a "vision" rather than a definitive plan by Sun CTO of IT John Dutra in a Forbes.com interview, Sun's does plan to lessen its dependence on in-house datacenters.
Sun Microsystems of Canada Inc. has been named as the Computer Network Server Supplier to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. What this means is that Sun will be supplying the server and storage infrastructure and installation support for the Winter Games critical applications.
System News posts items of interest for Sun users on a regular basis on the System News For Sun Users blog. Some of those items will become detailed articles in this newsletter. A quick recap of posts for the last week includes Developer.com's 2008 Product of the Year Awards, Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers Named Gold Award Winners, and 200k People, 1/2 Million Pages.
Bob Hueston's blog discusses Fault Management Coordination Between Solaris and SCF. He explains that the Solaris OS sees one set of errors and the service processor (SP) sees another (though both views can be caused by the same hardware fault). Because of this, it is necessary to coordinate the Solaris and SP views if diagnosis and recovery are to be achieved.
Senior Engineer in Sun's Compiler Performance Engineering group Darryl Gove authored the recently released book "Solaris Application Programming" that is described as a comprehensive guide to optimizing application performance in Solaris environments.
Pallavio Madhusudhan and Arindam Sarkar present a detailed how-to on "Using Solaris Live Upgrade with Non-global Zones." As a preliminary caution, the authors recommend a complete system backup before beginning.
A Sun blog entitled "Patch Corner" covers everything you need to know about patches, and in particularly keeping updated with the latest patches for the Solaris OS. Some recent blog entries offer the basics in learning to understand patches, specifics on core Solaris packages and patches, and important information on patching Solaris 10 OS.
Yumin Qi shows readers how to debug a core file without the Serviceability Agent. The recommended solution involves using JVM and the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS). Specifically, Qi discusses using the dbx debug tool that is part of Sun Studio software.
Did you know suspend and resume is available for some Solaris x86 machines? To find out if yours might be one of them take a look at a Sun blog that explores Solaris suspend and resume, showing readers how to enable the feature on their machines if they have supporting hardware drivers.
Anyone with questions on Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) applications in the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) can have them answered this month on Sun's "Ask the Experts" forum. Queries on the topic "Developing and Deploying Java SE-based Applications on Solaris" will be taken and answered January 21st through the 25th.
Early bird registration is currently underway for the upcoming 2008 JavaOne Conference scheduled for May 6-9th, and early registrants can save $200 off the on-site registration fee when they sign up by April 7, using priority code J8ROIC.
GlassFish Podcast is a blog site that hosts topics related to the open source application server for Java EE 5. The current featured topic is an interview with GlassFish architect Jerome Dochez who discusses how GlassFish v3 is being built using the HK2 modules sub-system.
Each week, we determine which articles have been most frequently referenced by logged-in subscribers to provide you with a list of the most popular articles for the last 4 issues. The top 10 articles for last week, Vol 119 Issue 2, were:
Examining the Benefits of Hardware Virtualization [19127]
Commercial Release of Sun xVM Ops Center 1.0 [19120]
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 on Sun's x64 Systems [19031]
InfoWorld 2008 Technology of the Year Awards Recognize Three Sun Products [19266]
Update on OpenOffice.org 2.4 and PDF Import Extension [19180]
Save Time by Implementing Scripts to Perform System Checks [19176]
The current version of Java SE 6 is Update 4 that not only comes with 377 bug fixes, a time zone update, and a command-line option allowing explicit System.gc() calls to run concurrently and unload eligible classes, but it also has integrated JAX-WS 2.1 in the JDK.
An updated Java Kernel has been released for testing in Java SE 6 Update N Build 10. The Kernel installer can be downloaded from java.net that also has posted a list of summary changes, including bug fixes, for this update.
Writing for the JavaFX project is a wish for the "Father of Java" and Sun Fellow as well as Sun VP James Gosling, who is more involved in overseeing its development. Gosling told Kathleen Richards of Redmond Developer News in an interview that JavaFX will be a strong competitor for Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe AIR.
Find out how to use the open source projects Templating for JavaServer Faces Technology (JSFTemplating) and Woodstock to write a JavaServer Faces component with only two files, namely an annotated UIComponent Java file and a template file.
Like most users of the animation framework in JavaFX, Chris Oliver finds the "dur" operator that was added to F3 some while ago a bit lacking and has turned to Key Frame animation as an alternative. His blog on the subject discusses using Key Frame animation for describing animations programmatically.
Terrence Barr provides readers with a helpful rundown of the activities underway in the open source Mobile & Embedded Community, explaining where the Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME) is in its productive evolution. His article urges greater participation in the understanding that open source is all about involvement.
There are five security controls in the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) that Sun Distinguished Engineer Glenn Brunette identifies as the most direct and of immediate value to users.
Peter Stephenson of SC Magazine reviews Sun's Identity Manager v7.1, giving the solution a five-out-of-five stars in its overall rating. He praised its focus on compliance and auditing, but criticized its installation and expense. Overall, he concluded, "A good product from a venerable company - can get pricey, but worth the price in very large implementations."
Venu Gopal shows readers how to use digest authentication with Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) applications in part one of an article series he is posting on his blog. Specifically, he shows how to enable SIP Digest Authentication for SIP Servlet Application and authenticate using a SIP Client. He walks readers through a ten-step process.
Keeping data in the datacenter helps protect enterprise information. This is partially why desktop virtualization is intriguing enterprises since it eliminates the need to store data on laptops or PCs. In a Sun Inner Circle feature article, desktop virtualization is explored, including the benefits it can bring to enterprise security, costs, and user access.
Developing transparent, open controls on information is vitally important as the world becomes more digitally exposed, says Sun Chief Privacy Officer Michelle Dennedy, who outlined three basic steps that may help lead in that direction in a special perspective article for ZDNet Asia.
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