News about Solaris and Sun Microsystems

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. Here's a quick recap of posts for the last week:

QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Solaris/x86-64

QuickTransit for the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) on SPARC to Solaris on x86/64 systems has been released, allowing enterprise customers to immediately run many thousands of additional applications. Read more.

SAM-QFS Code is Now Open Sourced

SAM-QFS code is now part of the OpenSolaris community. The current development source is available as a gzipp'd tarball. Sun StorageTek QFS is the only shared file system Sun offers which can be shared or combined with Sun StorageTek SAM to provide a complete data management solution for managing data throughout its lifecycle across tiers of storage. Read more.

Sun Launches New Initiative for SMBs

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. Read more.

Announcing the Sun Ray Unified IP Client

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, reported Matt Hamblen with ComputerWorld. Read more.

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