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17 Mar 2008
#19675
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Sun Launches New Initiative for SMBs
Making it Easier, Faster and More Affordable to Buy Sun Technology
Sun is making it easier, faster and more cost-effective for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to use technology to gain a competitive advantage through a new initiative designed to make buying Sun technology easy and affordable for this market. The company has set up a new Web page and expanded its Try and Buy program specifically for SMBs.
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17 Mar 2008
#19672
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Announcing the Sun Ray Unified IP Client from Mitel
Industry's First Truly Unified Communications Desktop
Mitel Inc. and Sun will be releasing a joint solution that combines a Sun Ray thin client with a Mitel IP desk phone to be accessed via a Java-based smart card. The Sun Ray Unified IP Client is expected to ship in May at a cost of less than $500.
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17 Mar 2008
#19654
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NetBeans Scores "Best Development Environment" Jolt Award
Wins Two Productivity Awards with Sun Java Wireless Toolkit 2.5.2
For two years in a row the NetBeans IDE has taken the award for the "Best Development Environment" at the 18th Annual Jolt Product Excellence Awards ceremony. The Jolt awards celebrate the most innovative, trend-making, ahead-of-the-curve products in the software industry. NetBeans also garnered a "Productivity Award" in two categories: Web Development and Mobility Development (with Sun Java Wireless Toolkit 2.5.2).
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17 Mar 2008
#19661
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Sun Joins The Open Group at Platinum Level
Commits to Furthering Open Standards, Interoperability
Sun has joined The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium focused on open standards and global interoperability within and between enterprises, as a Platinum-level member. Sun will be a contributor to the Architecture Forum, which developed and continues to evolve TOGAF, an industry standard that may be used freely by any organization wishing to develop its own in-house enterprise architecture.
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17 Mar 2008
#19569
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System News For Sun Users Blog Recap
Recent Blog Entries of Interest to Sun Users
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 QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Solaris/x86-64, SAM-QFS Code is Now Open Sourced, Sun Launches New Initiative for SMBs and Announcing the Sun Ray Unified IP Client.
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