The Sun Modular Datacenter (Sun MD) S20 or Project Blackbox is available starting at $559,000 (US list price), announced Sun, which also released a suite of services to assist in the planning, deployment, and management of the Sun MD.
In a recent article, "MySQL Acquisition Edges Sun Closer to a Complete OSS Stack," Gartner states, "the MySQL purchase immediately casts Sun in the role of a major open-source database management system vendor with heterogeneous operating system solutions. IBM, Oracle and Red Hat will likely feel some market pressure."
The European Commission awarded Sun a $141 million contract to supply servers conforming to version 3 of the Single UNIX OS Specification to the European Union institutions, bodies, and agencies participating in the open call for tenders.
The Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC) welcomed Sun as member of its Benchmark Council at the end of January. This membership means Sun will be helping define standard performance metrics for trading technologies. Sun also has become an Innovation Sponsor for the Manhattan-based STAC Lab, which is a research facility where end-user firms can evaluate new technologies under simulated trading conditions.
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 Time to Upgrade to Solaris 10; Sun SPOT Open Sourced, Discounted Pricing for Education Announced; Sun to Distribute QLogic SANbox 9200 Fault Tolerant Director Switch; Sun and CommVault to Provide Advanced Data Management Solutions; and more.
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