Bruce Guptill, managing director for Saugatuck Technology, a research-based market strategy consulting firm, offered an opinion on how the Oracle-Sun merger may impact the IT industry. In an opening statement, Guptill emphasizes how significant this buyout will be to reshaping the IT vendor ecosystem. "We cannot emphasize this enough: Oracle buying Sun changes the shape of the IT industry," he writes, "in effect creating a new, full-line hardware, software and services Master Brand..."
"Do operating systems still matter" is a question Ian Murdock ponders in a recent blog. It is a question prompted by the realization that, as he writes, "If you’re writing an application at the level of Java or PHP, what difference does it make what operating system is running underneath?" His conclusion? Yes, OSes still matter, but not in the way they used to.
Sun delivers the MySQL Database Solution for UTStarcom, a leading telecommunications IP-based Service Provider for emerging and established world markets. UTStarcom looks to Sun's MySQL as a database solution that provides reliability, scalability, and high availability. UTStarcom employs the MySQL Cluster to reach its high volume customer base with its RollingStream IPTV.
The "Innovating at Sun" episode, "RESTing on the Cloud with Open APIs" was hosted by Hal Stern with guest Tim Bray, Distinguished Engineer and Director of Web Technologies. Together they discussed the topic of open APIs and the Sun Cloud.
CommunityOne is a three-day event that will bring together developers, students, and technologists to focus on open source innovation and implementation. Slated for June 1-3, 2009, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, the third annual developer conference is free the first day that promises an opening day keynote from John Fowler, executive vice president of Systems, and Dave Douglas, senior vice president of Cloud Computing and Chief Sustainability Officer, Sun Microsystems.
Sign up for MySQL 5.4 Benchmarks technical Webinar set to take place May 21 at 6 p.m. E.T./3 p.m. PT/22:00 UTC where presenters Allan Packer, principal engineer, and Jimmy Guerrero, senior product marketing manager, will discuss MySQL 5.4 Sysbench results on CMT and Nehalem systems, an OLTP workload derived from an industry-standard benchmark, and provide an overview of the scalability and performance improvements in this upcoming version of Sun's open source database.
"Pathways to Open Petascale Computing: The Sun Constellation System - Designed for Performance" is an updated version of a white paper covered in an earlier System News article [20167] that now presents fully updated information on the latest Xeon processors and QDR InfinBand, describing Sun's systemic design approach to building and scaling large petascale computing environments with Sun Constellation System.
The release of OpenSPARC T1 version 1.7 is announced in the weblog of Durgam Vahia, Engineering and Partnership Development Manager in the OpenSPARC group at Sun, who writes, "... with this release, [the] community can port a truly multi-core, multi-thread 64-bit commercial processor design on FPGAs." A download of OpenSPARC T2 is also now available. He adds that OpenSPARC now supports two different FPGA boards of different capacities.
The ZDNet article "p570 vs. T5220" takes up the attempt to resolve the question of superiority concerning the price performance of the IBM p550 versus the Sun Fire T5440. Paul Murphy notes that Jesper Frimann has given the nod to the p550, given that it supports shared pool virtualization and, hence, should allow for much higher utilization.
The Sun StorageTek Enterprise Library Software 7.0 (ELS) is covered in the white paper "Introducing ELS 7.0," which provides an overview of the ELS and its components. ELS 7.0 is a simplification of the mainframe software suite of products.
A new product, the VSM5e, and a native ESCON to VSM5 are the subjects of this product announcement. The capabilities that the VSM4 provided will now be found in the functionalities of the VSM5. VSM5e is being developed to provide an entry level VSM5 system for cost sensitive customers. Lower tier customers do not always require the full performance plus connectivity of a VSM5 when, for example, a product like this is required for a test environment.
Thanks to Sun's Open Storage, do-it-yourself Web hosting services are being offered to the customers of EasySpeedy, headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. EasySpeedy chose to use Sun's Open Storage platform to run its open server hosting because it is flexible and scalable enough to meet the needs of their customers, without the proprietary limitations.
Who could put it more simply? Here you will find out the top 5 cool features offered by the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems. Watch the video presentation delivered by Constantin Gonzalez and the special appearance by Brendan Gregg, Fishworks engineer, to find out how users can meet their storage needs with Sun's Open Storage Systems.
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 135 Issue 1, the top 10 articles were:
The Sun Shared Shell, which supports SSH and Telnet and allows users to see and optionally control a remote system has been deemed a "cool diagnostic tool" in the blog of Steffen Weiberle.
OpenOffice 3.1 Released
The Linux Community Registers High Marks for Sun's Open Source Software Suite
Download the next significant upgrade of Sun's open source software suite, OpenOffice 3.1, which adds improved graphics via antialiased drawings to smooth the edges of graphics, better file-locking support for multi-user environments, replying to notes, improved grammar checking, hyperlink management and sorting, control of slideshow media, macro support for Open Office Base, relative database paths, better internationalization for Hebrew and Arabic plus performance improvements. OpenOffice.org recently was selected as the Linux Journal Readers' Choice for Favorite Office Program.
The Sun Blade X6270 server demonstrated Sun's position of leadership in Java-based computing by achieving "world record results" for the SPECjvm2008 benchmark, delivering a result of 317.13 SPECjvm2008 Base ops/m using the Sun Java JDK 1.6.0_14 Performance Release with the OpenSolaris 2008.11 Operating System reports BM Seer in his blog.
Yet another BM Seer benchmark blog, this time on the Sun Fire X4270 Server Two-tier SAP-SD ERP 6.0 Enhancement Pack 4 (Unicode) Standard world record performance, besting the results posted by the HP servers also tested.
Find out how to configure the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System for Oracle RAC infrastructure deployment, using the Solaris OS or Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This new article comes from Sun Systems Engineers Sridhar Ranganathan and Jeffrey Wright.
Here's another quick start guide for Sun open storage systems (AKA "Amber Road"). Sun engineers explain how to configure storage volumes for export as iSCSI targets, and then how to configure those iSCSI logical unit numbers (LUNs) at the database server for use with Automatic Storage Management (ASM).
Asked to assist a customer running a multi-tiered web application on a Sun Fire X4600 who was experiencing intermittent connections to the web site, blogger Steffan Weiberle writes up his experience in the blog "What happened to my packets? -- or -- Dual default routes and shared IP zones."
The question under consideration is whether users of VirtualBox as multiple system guests on an x86 computer can be isolated from one another by combining Solaris Containers with VirtualBox. The answer, as Jeffrey Victor reports in his blog entry "Layered Virtualization," is yes.
NetBeans IDE 6.7 Beta is now available for free download. Considered a significant update to NetBeans 6.5, this new release integrates Project Kenai with the IDE so a whole team of developers can work together to create Kenai projects, edit, debug, build, and commit code, all through one interface. Other key updates in Release 6.7: native support for Maven; GlassFish and Hudson integrations; enhancements to Java, PHP, Ruby, Groovy and C/C++; support for JavaScript 1.7, SVG Rich Components, and a "Profile Me Now" self-diagnostic tool.
The Solaris 9 Operating System has reached its end of life (EOL) as Sun announced that the last order date for this Unix version will be July 31, 2009. Consequently, the last ship date will be October 30 of this year and end of service life on the same day just five years later (October 30, 2014).
This announcement introduces individual component product subscription pricing for Sun Identity Manager, Sun OpenSSO Enterprise, Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition and Sun Role Manager. Sales and partners will now have the option to offer their customers either a perpetual license or subscription when selling identity component products.
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