During this past week's Sun Analyst Summit, the company reported it expects to meet its financial targets for the 2008 and 2009 fiscal years, including a 10 percent operating profit for next year [19422].

Solaris Express Developer Edition (SXDE) 1/08 has been released [19423] as has an early access edition of the Sun Java Real-Time System version 2.1 for SDN members [19415].

Sun VP of xVM Steve Wilson responds to a Q&A on Sun xVM Server and Ops Center [19416].

A recent Sun survey of Sun ISVs questioned their views on the Solaris 10 OS. Take a look at the results [19337].

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Commercial software subscriptions for the Sun xVM Ops Center are now available [19487], while coming soon is the Sun Blade X8450 Server Module with Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors [19491].

Sun also announced that TSMC will be manufacturing its 45-nanometer processors [19488] and the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 bests IBM, HP, and others on another SPEC benchmark [19468].

Read reports on Sun's business strategy revealed during the recent Global Media Summit [19467], [19465].

Solaris Express Developer Edition 1/08 earned high marks in a recent review [19436]. Plus, find out which of its three databases is the right one for your applications [19448].

Network.com has added 14 new applications, a new partner program, and extended its international availability [19464].

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Virtualization software maker innotek will soon join the Sun family if all goes as planned with the stock purchase agreement [19453]. The industry's first-carrier grade, 64-thread rackmount server made its debut this week as the Sun Netra T5220 [19452].

The Sun Modular Datacenter S20 can deliver nearly 455,000 web processing operations/second. See how [19411]. The wait for Sun's Rock processor will continue with its projected release now expected in 2009 [19430].

Both Jonathan Schwartz [19425] and Marten Mikos [19426] offer their individual perspectives on the MySQL purchase.

Two recent releases of interest: PostgreSQL 8.3 [19420] and Java Application Platform SDK Update 4 [19435]

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Sun completed its acquisition of MySQL this week and has announced new subscriptions and services to accompany the product line [19531]. The company also completed its acquisition of Vauu, Inc. this month [19501].

In 4Q07 Server Market analyses, Sun reportedly held the number one spot in UNIX shipments [19499]. The Sun Fire X4150 has set both single- and dual-JVM benchmarks [19486].

Storage news finds the Sun StorageTek 5800 System source code released [19539] and new additions to Sun's open archive portfolio launched [19543].

Learn how to run Indiana Preview 2 under innotek's VirtualBox [19504]. Plus, new software downloads include Solaris Cluster 2/08 [19526] and Sun xVM Ops Center installation documentation [19511].

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