After accepting keys to the city of San Francisco in tribute to him and his racing team BMW Oracle for winning the 33rd America's cup match this February, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said he expects Sun's formerly unprofitable operations to become profitable "right away" as part of Oracle. Following the Feb. 20th celebration, Ellison basically reiterated what he said during the Jan. 27 Oracle + Sun Strategy teleconference: "And how soon will [Sun's profitability] occur? How long do investors have to wait? Not at all; not at all. We'll be profitable this - in February. We'll be profitable in March. We'll be profitable in April - and when I say 'we': the Sun business. We'll be profitable in May."

Seven tips for OpenSolaris ZFS home server users are offered to readers by Constantin Gonzalez, one of Sun Germany's principal field technologists. These are tips, he writes, that he found useful in performing his own home server planning, building and installing.

It's safe to say that only Larry Ellison and a few of his top level Oracle executives really know "what's next for customers at Sun," but there is plenty of room for intelligent speculation on this score, and that is what Paul Murphy provides in his brief blog post on that topic. By and large, what Murphy sees will be welcomed by Sun customers.

• How to Back Port Solaris 10
• iSCSI failover with COMSTAR
• Oracle DB 11gR2 Certified on Solaris
• Steps for Installing Any Native or Branded Zones
• Solaris Boot Process
• Threads and Interrupts
• Solaris 10 5/09 OS Receives Security Certification
• Solaris Volume Manager Command Overview
• patchanalysis_gather script
• Make the Most of an SSD with ZFS
• ZFS Deduplication Notebook Backup

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Rebranding has begun for Sun products. One of note is the Solaris Operating System, which now reads as Oracle Solaris. This name change filters down to associated products such as Sun Studio, which now is officially called the Oracle Solaris Studio. In regards to Oracle Solaris, Barbara Darrow with SearchEnterpriseLinux.com, identifies it as Oracle's new high-end data center appliances running the Oracle software stack, while Vijay Tatkar discusses the newly named Oracle Solaris Studio.

Sun's Niagara 3, a one billion-transistor, 16-core processor, and the IBM POWER7 are the subject of Jon Stokes's Ars Technica piece that introduces readers to the floorplan of both chips.

Get $700 off Oracle OpenWorld 2010's full conference registration price by securing a spot before March 19. The conference is scheduled for Sept. 19-23, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. More than 1,800 sessions will be held along with 400 partner exhibits and hundreds of demos.

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 143 Issue 3, the top 10 articles were:

• In the Linux vs. Solaris Debate, Watch out for Scalability FUD
• Oracle's Financial Analyst Discussion (Transcript)
• Fast Track to OpenSolaris
• Oracle Positioned in Gartner's Leaders Quadrant
• Demonstrating How to Use GlassFish ESB 2.2
• Creating a Simple Web Application Using a MySQL Database
• Learn More About the Combination of Oracle and Sun Technologies
• What is Flash Memory and Where Will Flash Technologies Lead?
• Oracle's Cloud Computing Forum
• Installing Oracle 11g R2 on Solaris 10 with EMC PowerPath

The longer version of this article has list of top ten articles for the last 8 weeks.

In a java.net technical article, Adhir Mehta proposes using servlets to assist developers in maintaining their web service based assignments. He offers an algorithm to generate a file name using the input message, and then demonstrates how to use it in a configurable manner so there isn't a need to write any java code.

Readers with an appetite for controversy will find Tim Bray's blog on HTML5 engaging and will certainly like to read the voluminous comments the piece generated. Suffice it to say, the jury is still out on HTML5, so the debate goes on.

March 14 is the deadline for those wanting to submit papers for the JavaOne 2010 conference. This year's conference will be co-located with Oracle Develop during the week of Oracle OpenWorld. Set for Sept. 19-23 in San Francisco, JavaOne 2010 will be offering the following tracks, and proposals to speak are being accepted under them: Core Java Platform; Java SE and Desktop Java; Java EE and Java for Enterprise Applications; JavaFX and Rich User Experience; Java ME and Mobile; Java for Devices, Card, and TV; and The Java Frontier.

FERMAX is a Spanish company that produces Audio/Video Door Entry and Access Control Systems, using NetBeans for one critical aspect of the process. Oswaldo Rubio, who is a software developer in the FERMAX R&D department, explains to Geertjan Wielenga why the company chose the NetBeans platform for its development tasks in an interview published in NetBeans Zone.

Oracle Partitioning can improve the performance, manageability, and availability for applications, the company asserts. Part of the Oracle Database, Oracle Partitioning is the subject of a white paper that discusses the latest partitioning techniques, enhanced scalability, and extended manageability capabilities now available in the latest Oracle Database 11g Release 2.