Luojia Chen writes about optimizing MySQL Server on Sun x64 servers in this Sun BluePrints Online paper, which also provides an overview of the integrated Sun platform and describes benchmark results for solutions running on Sun Fire X4100 servers.
Tape drive self-identification is a new, standards-based mechanism that can automate tape drive configuration in the Solaris OS. Larry Liu and Grant Zhang provide a how-to guide to the process that shows how the Solaris SCSI tape driver can be made to dynamically retrieve the information required to configure the tape drive. The authors specify the SCSI command interface between the tape drive and the st(7D) driver as part of their article.
Janice J. Heiss asks "Why Develop on the Solaris OS?" and offers the capabilities of the Solaris Express Developer Edition as evidence for a strong affirmative response. The Solaris Express Developer Edition (SXDE), Heiss points out, is a free quarterly release of the next generation Solaris OS that contains many enhancements not yet available in the Solaris 10 OS. Created for the x86 platform, SXDE contains the tools, technologies and platforms required for creating applications for the Solaris OS, Java application platforms, and Web 2.0.
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