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).
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.
JavaFX 1.0 is a platform for building Rich Internet Applications (RIA) on top of the Java platform. Designers and developers can create RIAs and deploy them across all places where Java is pervasively deployed, from desktops and browsers to mobile devices and TVs. The download is available free from the Sun Web site.
Each month Sun Marketing publishes "Good News" about Sun. This month there are 14 items in three groups:
Customers Choose Sun: Sun Fire Servers, Sun StorageTek Storage Arrays, HPC technologies, Sun Lustre File System, Solaris 10, Sun SPARC Enterprise Servers, Sun Application Readiness Service
Leading Market Conversations: Open Source and Commoditization, Gartner Research on HPC, JavaFX, Partner Advantage Program, Open Access Channel Program, OpenEco.org
Product Reviews Underscore Innovation: Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems, Sun's Virtualization Strategy, MySQL 5.1, StarOffice 9 and OpenOffice.org, Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440
A two-page PDF of Sun's "Good News" is available in English and several other languages.
Sun and Microsoft have agreed on a search distribution deal that will offer the MSN Toolbar, powered by Microsoft Live Search, to U.S.-based Internet Explorer users who download the Java Runtime Environment (JRE).
Interphase Corporation announced the availability of the iSPA 5639L Low-Profile PCI-Express T1/E1/J1 Communications Controller. This new PCI-Express adapter, which offers four T1/E1 ports on four physical connectors, is an ideal solution for carrier class rack-mount server-based signaling applications such as home subscriber servers (HSS), home location registers (HLR), SMS centers, MMS centers, MSC-servers and IN service control points. It is also an optimized solution for media applications such as media servers, service nodes, unified messaging systems and media interface inter-working solutions.
Sun provides industry leading support and a stable, secure and
reliable operating system through Solaris releases. However, the
new OpenSolaris production offering targets a new market, particularly
what is called the 'Network Economy' sector, where time to market and
timely access to industry leading innovation is critical to their
business needs. Many of these customers have been falling back to
Linux-based offerings because Solaris has not been seen to to
readily provide access to newer open source applications and
development tools. However, their experience with Linux has often been
plagued by reliability issues - and inadequate support offerings.
"VDI Getting Started Guide" aims to give first-time users of Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3.0 a simple, and straight-forward guide to building a demo with that solution.
Comverse Technology, Inc. gave eight Netra 240 servers a try and gives an account of their experience. Sun released its first server line based on the revolutionary Chip Multithreading or the CoolThreads processor design.
Ben Rockwood leads readers through the process of "Examining MySQL in real time using DTrace." He begins with the point that MySQL does require modification for DTrace to be effective. Read through to the end of his piece and you will likely be emboldened to leverage DTrace for yet other investigative purposes.
In an episode of the Sun Radio HPC, Tony Warner interviews Glenn Wright on IB solutions from QLogic. Then Sun's Len Wisniewski gives us an update on Sun HPC ClusterTools, which is based on Open MPI. Download MP3 or subscribe on iTunes.
Frank Leers has written a Sun BluePrints Online proof-of-concept paper that investigates the feasibility of implementing booting over InfiniBand (BoIB) using Sun x64 servers; Sun HPC Software, Linux Edition; and Mellanox ConnectX technology.
The Sun Fire USBRDT 5240 Uniboard features eight-core 1.2-GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors; two processors per Uniboard, 128 threads. Architecture SPARC V9 architecture, ECC protected Cache per 4-MB integrated L2 processor.
"Sun Fire X4150 Server 1RU Storage Solution for 1000 Mailboxes in Microsoft Exchange 2007" is a Sun BigAdmin article that examines the appropriateness of the Sun Fire X4150 Server as a storage solution for Microsoft Exchange Server, based on the Microsoft Exchange Solution Reviewed Program (ESRP) – Storage program.
Customers can now extend the addressable market of the Sun StorageTek Virtual Tape Library Prime (VTL Prime) by adding one high capacity configuration, which comes with 26 TB of VTL Cache along with 65TB of de-duplication repository. VTL Prime is an integrated VTL and data de-duplication solution that also provides highly efficient, cost-cutting replication of only the unique data.
We track how frequently each article is viewed on the web site to determine which the readers consider the most important. For last week, Vol 129 Issue 4, the top 10 articles were:
Execution On Innovation (Video with slides) - Selling at Sun [20947]
Slides from November 2008 Solaris/Developer Days [20935]
Replacing high-end Unix with enterprise Linux? Not so fast [20929]
Sun Studio Software delivers a high-performance, optimized C, C++, as well as Fortran developer toolchain for Solaris, OpenSolaris, and Linux OSes. This includes support for multicore x86 and SPARC-based systems. The toolchain includes parallelizing compilers, code-level and memory debuggers, performance and thread analysis tools, and OpenMP support, as well as optimized math libraries. Developing parallel applications in the multicore era has never been easier than it is with NetBeans-based IDE.
"Federating applications in OpenSSO is easy, quick, and intuitive—new wizards for common tasks eliminate guesswork and complexity," write Wajih Ahmed and Marina in their Sun Developer Network article entitled, "Federated Single Sign-On for Google Apps in OpenSSO."
Sun has created a site called MySQL Resources for System Administrators that serves as a sort of watering hole for interested parties, where they can obtain and exchange information about ... you guessed it, MySQL.
Kevin Kline, Daniel Kline, and Brand Hunt have produced the third edition of their title, "SQL in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference," available now from O'Reilly. Whether SQL is new to you, or you've been using SQL since its earliest days, you'll get lots of new tips and techniques in this book.
The Cisco MDS 9000 Family 8-Gbps Fibre Channel switching modules delivers up to 528 8-Gbps port density and twice the bandwidth of
previous generation Cisco MDS Fibre Channel switching modules and enable customers to build consolidated SANs with fewer chassis, hence
requiring less space, power, and cooling, dramatically reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO).
Sun now offers the Cisco MDS 9000 Family 8Gb/s Fibre Channel Switching Modules
In addition to full support of all Java platforms (Java SE, Java EE, Java ME and JavaFX), the NetBeans IDE 6.5 is the ideal tool for software development with PHP, Ajax and JavaScript, Groovy and Grails, Ruby and Ruby on Rails, and C/C++. The 6.5 release brings you enhanced support for Web frameworks (Hibernate, Spring, JSF, JPA), the GlassFish application server, and databases.
Sun OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0
Provides Out-of-the-Box Access Management, Web Services Security and Federation Support
Sun is delivering another innovation in the identity management space with the 8.0 release of OpenSSO Enterprise (formerly Sun Access Manager and Sun Federation Manager), which is the single solution for Web access management, federation, and Web services security.
The Sun white paper "Access Certification: Addressing and Building on a Critical Security Control" examines the interplay between the requirements for compliance and the need for an enterprise to operate efficiently and productively. The white paper examines these often conflicting demands on the enterprise and shows how access certification technology makes it possible to meet them, first by enabling access control compliance, and second, by laying the foundation for a strong identity and access management (IAM) infrastructure.
Sun announces the new Sun Netra X4200 M2 Quad Core Standard Configurations and X-Option/XATO Options, along with the new Dual Core Configuration which offers 2GB 1Gb Single Rank Registered DDR2 DIMMS.
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