Sun is on target to reach its stated goal of a 10 percent operating profit margin during 2009, as well as this year's financial targets, said Sun CFO Mike Lehman this past week during the Sun Analyst Summit 2008 in San Francisco. He referred to strong sales growth in emerging markets and a shift toward more expensive server and storage setups as positive indicators toward reaching these marks.
virtualization.info is hosting the article "Sun xVM Server and Ops Center Q&A with Steve Wilson", Sun vice president of xVM. Wilson makes a few key points in the interview including Sun as a player in the virtualization space, features borrowed from the Solaris Operating System give xVM Server a set of highly unique attributes such as predictive self healing, xVM Ops Center is designed to manage up to thousands of servers (physical and virtual), along with others.
The Sun Java Real-Time System (RTS) will be helping Reuters, PLC address latency and unpredictable temporal performance of Java applications in the development and deployment of market-facing services. The Sun Java RTS provides a high-level development platform offering absolute execution predictability in applications, and keeps critical latencies as low as 20 microseconds, Sun reports.
The "Good News" from Sun for February 2008 includes seven straight quarters of growth with the Q2FY08 financial results and an agreement to acquire MySQL AB, which marks one of the most significant recognitions of the importance and power of open source as a disruptive force in technology, writes an industry CEO. Multiple customer wins and reported business results from customers also highlight this month's "good news".
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 an update on "Rock", the Sun Analyst Summit, Sun Joins SOA Consortium, Sun Java Real-Time System Wins Reuters; Early Access for Version 2.1 Available, and Sun xVM Server and Ops Center Q&A with Steve Wilson.
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