Announcements from the 2009 JavaOne Conference disclosed the release of OpenSolaris 2009.06, more details on Sun's new Java Store and Java Warehouse and the latest on Java-related technologies like JavaFX, Java SE and EE, and the Sun GlassFish portfolio.

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took the stage at the four-day event to explain his company's plans for Java.

Cloud Computing also was a hot topic at the conference with a new portfolio of professional services released and Sun Cloud partners announced.

As always, Duke\'s Choice Awards were a featured attraction at the annual JavaOne Conference.

Find out what the community is creating with JavaFX and learn how to develop Rich Internet Applications in a recently released book.

Easily manage LDoms with Ecoviv\'s Wand.

Lustre 1.8 is available with a host of new features.

An array of OpenStorage articles this week cover features and benefits of the Sun Storage 7310, virus scanning with Trend Micro IWSS, how the Unified Storage System shares NFS, iSCSI file systems, and a review by The Storage Architect.

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Is Oracle setting itself up with a virtualization gold mine as it moves in to close the deal with Sun and Virtual Iron?

Sun BluePrints cover Oracle RAC and Logical Domains (LDoms). A recent Webinar covers what\'s new in Sun VirtualBox.

Did you know that you can get Solaris 10 Containers for OpenSolaris? Find out how to upgrade from OpenSolaris 2008.11 to 2009.06 in an audio screencast. A set of guidelines for securely programming in OpenSolaris also has been issued.

Sun Distinguished Engineer Susan Landau discusses privacy issues, security and building trust into system design.

The mid-market can now look to Sun and Symantec\'s Open Archive solution that targets mid-sized companies.

Sun Fire X4170, X4270 and X4275 are part of Sun's new family of servers based on the Intel Xeon 5500 series processors. Learn more about them in an overview and white paper.

Read about a multi-layered approach being used for bug checking in the Parfait Project.

Customers share their experiences with Sun technologies: Xerox Global Services; Kenai.com, Linkedln and JotBot; LBBW Luxembourg Bank; and Fundamo mobile financial services.

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Special stockholder meeting is set for July 16th for a vote on the adoption of the merger agreement between Sun and Oracle.

Solaris is the most favored UNIX server of IT executives and managers, and according to a recent survey the future for the UNIX style of systems will be a long one. Solaris users may want to read a how-to guide that explains consolidating applications onto a single server using Solaris Containers technology.

OpenSolaris is now ported to ARM chips with its 2009.06 release, which also supports the latest Open High Availability Cluster 2009.06. Find out more about Sun's open OS by viewing a recent chat session transcript of Sun engineers.

Get performance testing and developing best practices for the Sun Storage 7000 series.

Economic and performance benefits when considering the move from HDDs to SDDs are discussed.

Sun Distinguished Engineer Glenn Brunette addresses developments in three Cloud Computing security projects. Version 4.5 of the Sun Secure Global Desktop Software is out.

Update Java DB and Apache Derby with a free download of their latest version 10.5.1.1.

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Announcements from the 2009 International Supercomputing Conference include multiple new updates and releases in Sun's open networking technologies and HPC software line. One of these is the Sun Grid Engine 6.2 Update 3 that introduces a new interface for Amazon EC2. Sun also made the top ten twice in the Supercomputer List for June 2009.

Amazon EC2 is now supported by hardened OpenSolaris 2008.11. Another recent OpenSolaris triumph, Sun's open source OS on Sun Fire X2270 outperformed Linux by 25%.

Read why the future viability for Solaris is secure with Oracle, according to a CTO and editor.

Sun GlassFish Web Space Server 10 Virtual Machine Template 1.0 offers VM images for VMware and VirtualBox, the latter of which has an early evaluation release available: Version 3.0 Beta 1.

StarOffice/StarSuite 9.1 has been released. This major update offers new usability improvements, more productivity tools and localization features.

Other new editions:

• Sun Studio 12 Update 1
• Sun StorageTek Common Array Manager (CAM) v6.4.1
• OpenDS 2.0.0 Release Candidate 1