Sun introduced the upcoming version of MySQL 5.1, which is expected to be generally available sometime this quarter, and offered up an early sample of the open source database with the availability of the near-final release candidate of the GPL software during the sixth annual MySQL Conference and Expo held April 14-17, 2008, in Santa Clara, Calif.
New server and storage platforms, along with Sun Streaming Software Release 2, are now part of the Sun Streaming System product portfolio, and Sun now claims with these new platforms it is offering the industry's broadest scalability and flexibility to service providers building out new video delivery networks.
Identifying and solving key challenges found in today's digital media distribution industry will be the objective of the newly formed Sun Media Advisory Board (MAB), whose steering committee consists of senior executives from MLB Advanced Media, Turner Entertainment Networks and HBO Communications. The board has already identified media transformation, content identification and video storage optimization as key business challenges facing the industry today, and projects to address these issues are underway.
Sun Labs Open House last week focused on the many and varied projects the research teams at Sun are working on. One of these is the research platform Project Caroline. Richard Zippel described this team project, of which he is a part, as "...a really cool platform that allows you to programmatically control all of the infrastructure resources you might need in building a horizontally scaled system."
The Sun Java Real-Time System 2.0 (Java RTS) and the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) have been selected as the software development platform for ITT Corporation’s Eglin Control and Signal Processing Upgrade (CSPU) program.
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 Next Release of OpenSolaris Expected in May, Sun Releases MySQL Workbench, Kickfire Database Appliance Based on MySQL Breaks Data Warehousing Price-Performance, MySQL 5.1 Expected for Release Later This Quarter, New Features in the Upcoming Solaris 10 OS 5/08, Sun Expands Sun Streaming System Product Portfolio, Sun Media Advisory Board, Space Surveillance Radar Relying on Sun Java Real-Time System, Second Life Video Covers UltraSPARC T2 Plus Processor Servers and Project Caroline, Other Research Projects.
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