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]
Sun is offering its new Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers with 64-thread UltraSPARC T2 processors free for 60 days. Evaluate the power of these servers that offer record-breaking performance at up to half the cost, up to a quarter of the space and up to half the power consumption.
Evaluate VMware VI3 and Solaris 10 Appliance for VMware risk free on the Enterprise Class Sun Fire X64 system of your choice: A Sun Fire X4600 M2 server, Sun Fire X4100 or a Sun Fire X4200 M2 server.
The Sun Upgrade Advantage Program (UAP) is offering double trade-in value for Sun Enterprise E6500, E10000, and Sun Fire F6800, F12K, and F15K when upgrading to Sun SPARC Enterprise M Series Systems. This special offer expires June 30, 2008.
innotek's open source VirtualBox product is on its way to becoming apart of Sun's product line as the company announced a stock purchase agreement to buy the Germany-based software company. VirtualBox is a developer desktop virtualization platform enabling desktop or laptop PCs to run multiple and different operating systems side-by-side such as Windows, Linux, Mac, or the Solaris Operating System.
The industry's first carrier-grade, 64-thread rackmount server has been introduced by Sun as the Sun Netra T5220 server. Based on UltraSPARC T2 processors, the Sun Netra T5220 server offers 64 virtual systems in a 2U, 20-inch-deep form factor and is the industry's only Network Equipment Building Standard (NEBS) Level 3 Certified Rack Server.
The prolific BM Seer has written a blog about Web Processing Performance on Sun Modular Datacenter (Sun MD) S20. His findings are that the Sun MD S20, configured with Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 servers, demonstrated performance per watt and performance by space superior to Dell servers using Xeon quad-core processors. The benchmarking exercise Seer reports on demonstrated that a Sun MD S20 fully configured with the 102 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120, each with a single UltraSPARC T2, and requiring only 160 square feet of space, can deliver nearly 455,000 web processing operations per second.
Sun has been developing a high-end SPARC processor with the codename Rock. One of Sun’s top engineers Marc Tremblay, delivered a paper at the ISSCC 2008 conference where he confirmed that Rock-based systems would ship in the "second half of 2009."
Some of the latest partner activity at Sun over the last few weeks includes Network.com Adds Applications, New Partner Program, More International Availability; VirtualBox Basics; The Ins and Outs of Desktop Virtualization, Sun Vietnam to Open Offices This Year, Solaris 10 on SPARC Now Supported by Layer 7 Technologies, Innovating@Sun Podcast: Building with Fortress, World Class Storage from Sun Microsystems, Sun's Reference Architecture for Oracle 11g, Federal Trade Commission Oks Sun's Acquisition of MySQL, Understanding Variations in Solaris OS Versions, and SugarCRM Stack Installers for Solaris, OpenSolaris.
Jonathan Schwartz explained his enthusiasm for MySQL to the audience at Sugar CRM recently, saying that the company's rapid growth rate and its revenue model made it an attractive candidate for acquisition, even at the price of $1 billion.
Michael Larabel of Phoronix recently reported on Preview 2 of the variously named Project Indiana, aka Developer Preview 2 of Project Indiana or, officially, OpenSolaris Developer Preview 1/08 edition, due for general availability release in March 2008. The differences between the initial distribution in October 2007 and Preview 2 are not monumental, Larabel writes, and there is still work to be done before the release next month.
Interested in creating your own OpenSolaris IPS repository? Well, you're in luck. Michal Pryc has created a six-part presentation series that will walk you through the steps and complete the process in just a weekend's time. The series covers everything from building packages using Common Build Environment, all the way through sending your packages to the IPS repository.
The OpenSolaris Developer Conference 2008 (OSDevCon 2008) will be held June 25-27, in Prague, and the "Call for Papers" is currently underway. The 2nd annual international conference is inviting OpenSolaris enthusiasts and developers to share their experience and knowledge about the open source operating system by giving a talk or a tutorial on their preferred topic.
The OpenSolaris Storage Community will be hosting a Birds-of-a-Feather session on Wednesday, February 27th at 8 p.m. in the California Room during the 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '08).
In December, Sun Microsystems Federal's Jim Laurent created a comparison chart between the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) and Red Hat EL 5, highlighting important aspects of the two open source development models. The chart has since been updated with new information on the operating systems, and Microsoft Windows 2003 Datacenter Edition added as an additional OS to compare.
A Forrester report issued last month shows the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) is one of the top three strategically positioned OSes in the European financial services market. Authored by Jost Hoppermann with Gene Leganza and Olesia Klevchuk assisting, the 16-page PDF's results are based on surveyed enterprise architects, IT planners, and strategists within financial services firms in 13 European countries.
Lucas Williams reports on "Setting Up JumpStart With Solaris 10 OS for SPARC Platforms and ZFS" in his recent BigAdmin piece. He used a single Sun Enterprise 3500 server running Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) and a single client machine, a Sun Netra X1 server. Although he used the Solaris 10 08/07 release, Williams writes that this procedure will work with versions going back as far as 03/05.
Joerg Moellenkamp has written an extensive tutorial on Role-based access control (RBAC) and privileges. To ease readers into the learning piece, the author divided his "course" entitled "Less Known Solaris Features" into four parts: Introduction, RBAC, Privileges, and Epilogue.
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 120 Issue 1, were:
Sun VP of xVM Talks About Sun xVM Server and Ops Center [19416]
IDC is forecasting that the Open Source business, "reached $1.8 billion in 2006 and will grow to reach $5.8 Billion by 2011." LinuxWorld has published an article listing open source business leaders who they think will matter the most in 2008, which includes Sun President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz.
The release of PostgreSQL 8.3 earlier this month brings major performance enhancements to the high-performance object-relational database management system, including Heap Only Tuples (HOT), spread checkpoints and background writer autotuning, and an asynchronous commit option for faster response times on some transactions.
InfoWorld Editor Paul Krill reports on the expanded coverage in the works for the Sun Da Vinci Machine, "a multi-language renaissance for the Java Virtual Machine architecture" whose aim is to develop prototype Java virtual machine (JVM) extensions that will run non-Java languages while also providing architectural support.
Get the latest technologies from Sun Java System Application Server (GlassFish), Portlet Container, Sun Java System Access Manager, and Open ESB in the production-ready release of the Java Application Platform SDK Update 4. This update focuses on streamlining enterprise application development and improving developer productivity.
Readers with an interest in using compiled JavaFX script technology to create rich Internet applications will want to read James L. Weaver's article on the subject. JavaFX Script, Weaver writes, is a simple, elegant scripting language for leveraging the power of the Java platform. His series of 18 articles covers compiled JavaFX Script, demonstrating the ease of using it to create rich and responsive GUIs, even by users lacking an in-depth knowledge of programming.
Sun's Roland Westrelin blogs that Sun has just produced an early access release of the Sun Java Real-Time System (RTS) on Linux. Westrelin explains that part of his role in this development involved the need to examine the futex subsystem since Java RTS on Linux relies only on the POSIX APIs, making it necessary to use pthread mutexes and condition variables, and to build pthread synchronization primitives on top of the futex mechanism.
The java.net website will play host to the new OpenCable Project focused on further expanding tru2way technology, which is based on Java specifications. Tru2way is the consumer-facing brand name for interactive digital cable services delivered over the cable video network, such as interactive program guides, interactive ads, integrated telephony, games, chat, web browsing, and t-commerce.
The 2008 JavaOne Conference, scheduled for May 6-9 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, has accepted about 350 sessions out of almost 1,700 submissions. Sun also announced that the Java University program will be held on Monday, May 5. This program offers technical training courses on the latest development topics presented by Sun certified instructors.
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