Sun launched JavaFX 1.0 this week and Sun Marketing published their monthly Good News newsletter.

In a deal that makes Microsoft a major Sun customer, Sun and Microsoft signed an agreement that will offer the MSN Toolbar to users who download the Java Runtime Environment.

We are experimenting with a series of short "News Bite" articles for interesting news items that will probably not be expanded into full articles. Let us know what you think of them.

SPARC Enterprise customers can add the new USBRDT 5240 Uniboard, with 2 UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors, into their existing frames (4800s to E25Ks).

Windows SysAdmins can review a Sun solution for 1000 Mailboxes in Microsoft Exchange 2007.

The Sun VTL offering can now grow to 26 TB of VTL Cache along with 65TB of de-duplication repository.

Find out more about MySQL 5.1

Other topics this week include: Sun Studio Express 11/08 , Sun Studio Express 11/08, NetBeans IDE 6.5, Sun OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0, MySQL, BigAdmin and the Netra X4200.

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Happy Holidays!

Sun has been recognized as "green" company. Subscribers with an interest in SOA are encouraged to cast a vote for their favorite technologies.

xVM VirtualBox has been upgraded to version 2.1. Learn about Sun xVM Ops Center in anticipation of a new release in the near future.

Force10 Networks suggests that the new Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage product family will benefit greatly from 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) networking options.

Intel has published a white paper called The Solaris Operating System and The New Intel Core Microarchitecture and a data sheet which explains how to Get Unprecedented Efficiencies using Hybrid Storage Pools (HSP) with Solaris ZFS and Intel SSDs.

The new release of OpenSolaris has gained a lot of attention in the marketplace causing Charlie Schluting to ask, Will Linux Users Be Interested Enough to Adopt?

Learn about Cloud Computing from a Sun "Inner Circle" article.

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Learn how Sun's innovations can contribute to the reduction of TCO.

The Sun StorageTek Virtual Tape Library Plus features tape stacking, which allows the VTL user to consolidate multiple virtual tape volumes in one physical tape cartridge. Zmanda offers comprehensive backup solutions that are fully certified with Sun Open Storage product lines.

See a webcast covering Sun Studio & Sun HPC ClusterTools. Allinea Software offers leading-edge development tools for Multicore, HPC and large-scale parallel computing

Learn why OurStage.com migrated its production storage systems from Linux to OpenSolaris.

Watch a brief screencast by Roman Strobl and see what is exciting about OpenSolaris 2008.11.

A new version of Sun Web Stack is now available. Version 1.4 stands as the successor to Cool Stack 1.3.1.

A compact, 18-page, easy-to-read, comprehensive guide to Sun's servers is now available.

Sun now offers a DoD compliant data erasure service that erases sensitive customer data from the hard disk drives.

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Lots of news this week about JavaFX: JavaFX 1.0 announcement, interview with JavaFX Media Lead Engineer , and a podcast with Hal Stern and Danny Coward talking about JavaFX.

Sun grew its disk business by 25%, is adding two new independent members to its board and Paul Shread outlines why Sun's bottom line is better than many think.

News about OpenSolaris 2008.11 continues and reviews, like the one by Ryan Paul in ars technica are very positive.

We continue experimenting with short "News Bite" articles with 15 items in three articles.

News this week for Intel features an IDC white paper which examines the growing server market and how the x86-based Sun server line using Intel Xeon processors are designed to meet its future needs. Also featured is a paper that discusses the high level of optimizations made to the Sun JVM specifically for the Intel Xeon processor.

An article that says My SQL 5.1 is now available for download is our 21,000th article!

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Happy New Year!

Sun and Micron have developed a new single-level cell (SLC) NAND technology that significantly extends the lifespan of flash-based storage.

You can test-drive the interface for managing Sun's new Open Storage products with the Sun Unified Storage Simulator, which is pre-configured virtual machine image.

Find out what is open about OpenSolaris and how to work with multiple boot environments.

Gordon Haff of Illuminata has produced a white paper on Sun's virtualization strategies.

Learn about future of JavaFX from Jeet Kaul and how to develop run JavaFX applets and apps offline.

Looks for news on GlassFish High Availability, Sun's cloud computing portfolio, MySQL 5.1, Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Update 4, and Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.1.

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