News about Solaris and Sun Microsystems

This week Sun continued its tradition of April Fool's pranks with Jonathan on the receiving end [19726]. Get a more serious update from Sun marketing in April's "Good News" [19652] and from the OpenSolaris community's Review of March 2008 [19727].

Check out some of the BigAdmin [19728] article recommendations. For HPC, there is an article on the Lustre File System [19521] and a link to the new HPC PodCast [19677].

MySQL articles appear in the developer section [19709], [19553] and the SysAdmin section [19557].

DTrace articles for developers [19538] and Sys Admins [19594] demonstrate why this is an award winning technology. One DTrace one-liner can show, system wide, commands (and their arguments) when they are started. Another can show every file open.

There is also a summary of the last 12 blog entries posted to http://blogs.systemnews.com [19615].

Sun continues the march towards Open Source and storage with the addition of HSM to OpenSolaris [19695].

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1,680 Open Source binary packages are ready to be installed at blastwave.org.

Sun has been also busy this week. The company released the MySQL Workbench [19801], announced new certifications for the MySQL Certified Storage Engine Program [19794] and introduced the upcoming MySQL 5.1 [19796].

It also announced the new Sun Eco Advantage Program for partners [19794], the formation of a Sun Media Advisory Board [19788] and has added to its Sun Streaming System product portfolio [19790].

Find out more about the UltraSPARC T2 Plus Processors [19773], [19786] and its benchmarks [19766].

Recent and upcoming releases: Solaris 10 5/08 [19789], Logical Domains 1.0.2 [19784], Solaris 8 and 9 Containers [19785], Sun Java System Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.3 [19738], Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 Service Pack 9 [19663], Java 6 Update 10 [19772], among others.

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In anticipation of the 2008 JavaOne Conference, there are several articles covering the event's agenda , expected JavaFX demo, Java's debut in GNU/Linux distributions and speculation on the programming language making it into Apple's iPhone

Challenging US economy results in "disappointing" fiscal third quarter of 2008 with Sun reporting a $34 million net loss. Sun Federal's Bill Vass explains Sun's market focus.

In other news, Sun adds developer tools and expands services for its open storage platform, releases Solaris 9 Containers and receives two green awards.

Learn more about the architecture of the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120/T5220 and T5140/T5240 Servers in a white paper and a SPARC processors comparison chart.

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UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors made their debut this week in the multi-socket Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 servers which feature a total of 128 instructional threads and up to 16 processing cores within each server [19764].

Also released this week - Sun StorageTek VTL Prime with data deduplication features [19762] and Java SE for Business which extends platform support up to 15 years [19757].

Sun is sending out free DVDs of the Solaris Express Developer Edition for x86 Platforms [19750].

Download the Solaris Cluster 3.2 2/08 [19724], which Sun has announced now supports even more servers as does version 3.1 [19740]. Learn more about deploying MySQL on Solaris Cluster [19749].

Did you know the Solaris 10 OS can provide an ROI of 127% over five years with an additional 335% ROI potential? So reports a Crimson Group survey [19692].

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Check out the new "Sun News Radio" on blogtalkradio.com. Sun is considered a disruptive force within the IT industry [19769]. See how its strategy toward open source is leading it to profitability [19806]. OpenSolaris 2008.05 is nearing release [19807]. A recent Gartner analysis sees the open source OS as a serious competitor for Linux [19768]. Get a brief look at the new package system in a webcast featuring Ian Murdock[19723]. Details on the Solaris 10 5/08 OS's features and new enhancements are now available [19815].

New releases:

• Sun Storage and Archive Solution for HPC [19832]; Java Card Platform Specification 3.0 [19843]; Solaris On Demand - SaaS Program for ISVs [19852]; Sun Shared Visualization Software Version 1.1 [19745]; Sun Scalable Visualization Software Version 1.1 [19739]; OpenOffice.org 2.4 [19748]

Take a look at the new UI in Sun xVM Server and Sun xVM Ops Center [19783].

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