Coming from the same roots, Solaris and Linux are complementary and a natural fit to work together. With Solaris Containers for Linux Applications you can run Linux applications unmodified on x86 Solaris servers. The Solaris Operating System is an ideal platform for today's heterogeneous compute environments.
For customer who choose Linux, Sun has a very competitive set of hardware, software and service options.
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Angus MacDonald, chief technologist for Sun Microsystems, Australasia, has put together a slide presentation that he calls "The Future of the Eco-Datacenter," which investigates the increasingly pressing conjunction of ecology and economy as it affects the datacenter. He talks about the tension between demand and capacity and ways around these conflicts, such as increasing utilization, improving space efficiency and cutting energy costs.
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In a recent InfoWorld posting, Zack Urlocker interviewed Scott McNealy, though much of the two-part article deals with the role at Sun of Andy Bechtolsheim.
Selling, selling, selling (to paraphrase the real estate industry) is paramount in McNealy's view of every executive's job. "I don’t know anything that you do that doesn’t require selling," he contends. And this extends even to recruiting the best people to your company, he continues.
Selling calls for travel, McNealy added, noting his more than 150,000 airline miles that he logs every year on behalf of Sun.
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When Rich Green, Sun EVP for software, sat down for an interview with Al Riske, he demonstrated two attributes the writer says he is noted for: congeniality and impatience. Both were in evidence as the pair discussed the open source marketing strategy at Sun. Looking into the activities of Green and his team, Riske discovered that, as he writes, they "...aren't simply throwing source code over the wall and waiting for good things to happen."
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