New details on Oracle's plans for certain key Sun technologies, including GlassFish, OpenOffice.org, NetBeans and VirtualBox, have been released. Also learn more about Oracle's Exadata Partner Program allowing Oracle and Sun channel partners to sell the Sun Oracle Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server. Plus, a Sun BluePrints Online article discusses the Sun Systems for Enterprise 2.0 with Oracle solution, describing the architecture and performance characteristics.

Detailed information on Solaris 10 10/09 and Sun Ops Center 2.5 releases are covered, as are the Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3.0 and Sun Java Indexing and Search Service available in Communications Suite 7.

Solaris News Bites provides resources for a DTrace quick start guide, ZFS built-in deduplication, aligning flash for Solaris 10 x86, installing native and branded Zones, plus much more.

Find out what a Sun CIO says are eleven major trends in Identity Management for 2010.

Did you know the Sun Fire X4270 server running VMware ESX 4.0 OS earned an excellent result on the virtualization benchmark VMmark?

PayPal is supporting application payment in the Java Store Beta, making it easier for consumers to buy and developers to get paid.

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The latest Top500 list published in November shows three of the top five supercomputers based on Intel Nehalem CPUs were Sun Constellation Systems.

RDC's Encryption Wizard for Oracle provides transparent data-at-rest encryption for the Oracle RDBMS at a fraction of the cost of other solutions.

Learn how to migrate from Microsoft Access to MySQL.

Sun how offers 2.53GHz quad-core SPARC64 VII processor for Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 and M5000 servers and without any increase in cost.

Sun Storage 7310 and 7110 now come with new configurations containing six-core AMD Opteron processors.

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With the European Commission formally objecting to the Sun acquisition, Oracle vows to 'vigorously oppose' the ruling and resellers are realizing the benefits of a Sun post-acquisition.

Sun reported results for its first quarter of fiscal 2010, which ended September 27, 2009.

Download Sun Ray Software 5 and get expanded client device choice and peripheral connectivity, Adobe Flash multimedia acceleration and more.

See the new Solaris 10 Security Deep Dive training mediacast updated for Solaris 10 10/09. Also, learn how to analyze and troubleshoot OpenSSO deployments with Mozilla Firefox.

Screencast demonstrates the Sun Ops Center 2.5 capability to patch Windows operating systems, while an IDC paper discusses how it can be used to manage mixed environments.

Sun Storage 7000 software update supports Infiniband HCAs.

Read a proof-of-concept covering Java Real Time 2.1 with Solaris 10. Java Champion Kirk Pepperdine talks specifics about performance tuning.

Why would a CIO consider the Sun Oracle Database Machine as a solution when the datacenter does not require a million IOPS-capable platform?

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The battle over the Oracle's acquisition of Sun continues with the EU pushing the deadline for their final decision on Oracle's plans to buy Sun to January 27th. A group of 59 US Senators has asked the EU to hurry their investigation.

Learn more about Sun's World-record TPC-C Benchmark with Sun SPARC servers and Oracle 11g.

Discover how Sun Ops center 2.5 can be used to patch Solaris, Linux and Windows servers.

The US NSA has some ideas on how you can improve the security of Solaris, MacOS and other operating systems.

A detailed Sun Blueprint describes how to configure Oracle 10g with RAC with infiniband.

Sun's family of CMT servers feature Built-in, No-cost Virtualization Technologies that can Dramatically Increase ROI.

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