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.
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.
Sun's fiscal third quarter of 2008 reported a net loss of $34 million on a GAAP basis translating into a $.04 per share drop as compared with net income of $67 million, or $0.07 per share during last year's third quarter. Sun did report that the net loss included charges related to the acquisition of MySQL and the company would have had earnings of breakeven per share without this buy.
New developer tools and expanded professional service capabilities were introduced this week for Sun's open storage platform. The tools are comprised of videos and accompanying online how-to guides to assist developers in building storage systems quickly and efficiently. And, to help customers speed open storage application development and make the transition to an open storage infrastructure, Sun's Open Storage services portfolio was highlighted.
As promised, Sun released the Solaris 9 Containers software at the end of April and its download is now available. This offering enables a simpler migration of Solaris 9 applications to the latest systems running the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS). This solution is intended for those customers who want to run their Solaris 9 environments on newer Chip Multi-threading (CMT) systems running Solaris 10 8/07 or later releases.
The Uptime Institute has included Sun Microsystems among the honorees in its 2008 Green Enterprise IT Awards citing Sun's "strategy for improving the efficiency of its technical infrastructure portfolio," which resulted in the development of the Sun Microsystems Modular Datacenter S20 (also known as Project Blackbox), among other innovations.
Sun Fellow Mike Splain has officially been named as executive vice president of the Microelectronics Group. Splain, who has been heading the group since the departure of David Yen earlier this year, will continue leading all aspects of the Microelectronics technology development and business operations.
The Storage Networking Industry Association's (SNIA) newest Board of Directors member is Sun's own Eric Bart, currently senior director of storage management software at Sun. The SNIA Board of Directors oversees the not-for-profit's vision and mission, addressing issues such as strategic planning, membership development, marketing and public relations, technical output and operational planning.
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 Sun Open Storage, NetBeans 6.1 Released, Sun Federal to Demo at DISA Partnership Conference, Jonathan Schwartz Keynote at MySQL, Rock's Transactional Memory, Sun Modular Datacenter Enters Health Care Space, among others.
"Enterprise and Web scale computing" -- that's the heart of Sun's business, at least according to Bill Vass, president and COO of Sun Microsystems Federal. Contrary to the assertions of some that Sun tries to be all things IT to its customers, Vass asserts that the company's focus is really quite sharp, enabling Sun to deliver solutions that provide "security, high availability, high performance, dynamic scaling, open architectures, at the best value."
Few people have the experience with information security that Bob Gourley, former CTO for the Defense Intelligence Agency, brings to the subject, which makes his blog on the Sun Ray 270 a topic of interest to a wide range of readers. Gourley sees adoption of the Sun Ray 270 as having an exponential potential with its range of features, which includes a high-level of security.
Sun Microsystems is one of 15 organizations recognized by InfoWorld as practitioners of sustainable technologies that cut waste and reduce carbon footprint even as they achieve significant business goals. Leon Erlanger reported the for InfoWorld.
Speakers are set for the upcoming Community One and JavaOne Conferences scheduled for the first full week in May at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, including music legend and pioneer Neil Young, who will be joining Sun executives during the JavaOne opening keynote session on May 6. If you are unable to attend the conferences in person, Sun will be webcasting the CommunityOne general sessions as well as streaming the technical sessions, and hosting live webcasts of all the 2008 JavaOne conference general sessions.
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Partnership Conference is set for May 5-8 at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, Fla. Sun Federal will be demonstrating some of the company's advanced technologies for desktop virtualization, security, identity management, etc. at booth 331. Partners expected to join Sun at the booth are Mitel, BlueSpace and Dynamic Systems.
Learn more about Sun virtualization technologies in a webcast with an accompanying slide presentation by Hugo Rivero, senior staff engineer in the Partner group at Sun, who discusses problem issues in the data center and how virtualization can resolve many of today's challenges.
Proximity community is a revolutionary chip-to-chip communications technology that allows two devices to swap data by just being near each other. Still under development, this technology was conceptually demonstrated during this year's Gartner Symposium/ITxpo by Sun Labs David Douglas, and is now the subject of a ZDNet video clip, in which Douglas briefly explains the technology and how it works.
Sun SOA and Business Integration CTO Ross Altman presented "Getting to the Service Oriented Enterprise," which was recorded during the SOA Consortium meeting in Washington, D.C. in March, and is now available as a podcast and slide presentation. Two main topics are covered in the 53-minute presentation: 1) the benefits of open source software and open standards and 2) the challenges and benefits of SOA.
Find out how Mentor Graphics utilizes Sun platforms for application development and how Sun, in turn, utilizes Mentor Graphics software for the creation of hardware designs in a Sun white paper. Over the course of their 15-year partnership, Sun and Mentor Graphics have created dependable products, ready for mission-critical Electronic Design Automation (EDA) projects.
Michael Schulman, HPC Marketing talks about the biggest challenges facing business in the manufacturing space, specifically related to Mechanical Computing-Aided Engineering (MCAE) in a 12-minute Sun Net Talk.
Open MPI (Message Passing Interface) version 1.2.6 is the latest release from the Open MPI Project, which is an open source MPI-2 implementation that is developed and maintained by a consortium of academic, research and industry partners working toward building the best available MPI library. Although version 1.2.6 is primarily a bug fix, it does offer some new features, and it is recommended that all users upgrade to this latest version.
A recent Sun white paper on the SPARC Enterprise T5120, T5220, T5140 and T5240 servers -- the first massively Systems on a Chip (SoC) -- that employ the UltraSPARC T2 and UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors describes how these solutions offer datacenter managers the tools they need for eco-efficient, scalable storage and retrieval of the dynamic databases typical of Web 2.0 infrastructure.
All PTO configurations and X-options for the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 Servers were to be generally available on April 30. These UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor-based servers are the latest in an extensive family of SPARC processors. To help users understand the variances between these processors, Tim Cook created a comparison table outlining their physical features and architecture.
During the last quarter (Jan 08, Feb 08. Mar 08), the web site for this newsletter had 140k unique visitors who viewed 312k pages. (For the past 12 months: 416k visitors and 1.0 million page views.)
Each week, we determine which articles have been most frequently referenced by logged-in subscribers to provide you with a list of the most popular articles for the last 4 issues. The top 10 articles for last week, Vol 122 Issue 4, were:
Details on the Solaris 10 5/08 Operating System [19815]
OpenSolaris Becoming Serious Competitor to Linux [19768]
OpenProj Now Included in European StarOffice Boxes [19844]
Sun Considered a Disruptive Force in the IT Industry [19769]
Sun Shared Visualization Software Version 1.1 - Free Download [19745]
New UI Expected with Sun xVM Server, xVM Ops Center Releases [19783]
Questions Answered About Virtualization on Solaris Containers and Zones [19432]
Tutorials on Access Control and Auditing in the Solaris 10 OS [19805]
Developers using Fedora 9 or Ubuntu 8.04 Long Term Support (LTS) can now count on free software implementations based on Java technology as a standard element of an open source developer stack since the OpenJDK has been included into the latest releases of the two open source softwares. This move now opens the door for numerous Java technology-based offerings to be included in the core of these GNU/Linux distributions.
Users who have struggled to learn the Java programming language will be pleased with the news reported by InformationWeek's Charles Babcock, which is that Sun is working on the release of Java FX, a scripting language based on a byte code that can run in the standard Java Virtual Machine (JVM) but that will be much easier to learn and to use than Java itself. Sun plans a demonstration of Java FX during the upcoming JavaOne 2008 Conference.
Sun and Innaworks have been collaborating on bringing Java applications to Apple's iPhone, even with the Cupertino, Calif.-based corporation's reluctance to publicly support the programming language on its popular mobile phone device. Sun also has not given up its pursuit of having a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) placed on the iPhone through the iPhone SDK.
The simplification of federation and identity management tasks for enterprises is one of the chief goals of Daniel Raskin, senior product line manager for Access and Federation Management at Sun, who explains his aims and discusses some of the key features of the soon-to-be-released Sun Federated Access Manager in an interview with Marina Sum.
Deploy a baseline of security configurations to all your systems with the Solaris Security Toolkit (SST), formerly known as the JumpStart Architecture and Security Scripts (JASS) toolkit. In a brief tutorial by Joerg Moellenkamp, learn how to install the SST and use it to harden a system.
The Sun Managed Operations for Identity released in mid-April offers customers Managed Operations Remote Monitoring and Management of Sun Identity Management (IDM) solutions. This solution is an added capability to the existing Sun Managed Operations offering.
In Part 3 of their series on Securing Applications With Identity Services, Lakshman Abburi, Aravindan Ranganathan and Marina Sum turn their attention to User Attributes. The authors describe how to fetch user attributes by means of the attribute service with IdSvcsClient, an example application built with the NetBeans IDE.
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