Forbes analyzes the Oracle-Sun acquisition and offers suggestions. Oracle-Sun and Hitachi Data Systems have decided to end the long-term reseller agreement HDS originally had with Sun.

Dispelling EOL rumors for OpenSolaris, Oracle says it will continue to invest in the open source operating system.

A primer by Joerg Moellenkamp seeks to address some misconceptions on deduplication. Virtual machine migration tips are offered. The nature and functions of Service Domain Manager, an add-on component for Sun Grid Engine 6.2u5, are described.

A skeptical eye is cast on certain aspects of the SPEC benchmark results posted for the IBM POWER7.

Two part podcast covers Oracle's take on cloud computing and where the company is in this space.

A case is made for why the IT industry will be more open by the end of 2010.

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The Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center and the Oracle Management Connector for Ops Center are said to be more than "a mere re-skinning of Sun Ops Center."

Sun customers and partners listened to Oracle executives in London discuss plans regarding Sun hardware and software. Oracle's director of Solaris product management recently talked about the future of OpenSolaris and Solaris. Another Oracle executive reviewed the company's move toward a more direct channel model. Also learn what's in store for the Oracle Office product family.

Flash storage integration within Oracle's Exadata Database Machine Version 2 cuts query processing time significantly.

Fishworks Engineer Bryan Cantrill reflects on Sun Storage 7000 2010.Q1.

Sun employees may be interested in the personalized online training Oracle offers for its staff.

A guide to the tools available in the Plain Old Java Objects (POJO) Service Engine is available, as is a new tip on running VirtualBox VMs as a service in Windows.

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Read an analysis of the implications a single-stack approach - as proposed by Oracle - may have on business intelligence and data warehousing. There is also an examination of raised-floor design in data centers.

In a Q&A session, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Alliances Judson Althoff talks about the Oracle Partner Network and its offerings for Sun partners.

The release of Oracle's Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) 3.1.1 brings with it support for the Sun Storage 7000 firmware 2010.Q1. More information is available on this Sun Storage 7000 release, specifically the design considerations in the remote replication feature and addressing the need for multiple ZFS storage pools.

Resources and instructions on ZFS deduplication are presented. Learn how to monitor and graph performance of Solaris Zones, Containers, and LDOMS. A few methods are shared on dealing with package and patch-level issues when moving a local zone.

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Sun's first month under Oracle is expected to contribute about $636 million to its third quarter fiscal year earnings.

OpenOffice.org and the Solaris 10 Operating System are two of 25 named technologies of the decade.

On the merging of Oracle-Sun solutions, read why one MySQL co-founder believes MySQL and Oracle can coexist, and about the products expected to remain central to Oracle's focus on virtualization. Also, read more about Oracle's virtualization play.

Upcoming OTN TechCasts will focus on Java EE, Oracle VM-Virtual Box integration, and Ops Center, while an on-demand replay discusses JavaFX.

The Sun Unified Storage System 2010.02 is expected to be released soon. Get suggestions on migrating large volumes of data from old to new Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) systems.

Learn how to deploy a secure application with protected methods on Oracle-Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server Version 3.

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Oracle's third fiscal quarter earnings report were expected to be released at the end of market close on March 25.

What is scalability, and why is Solaris so good at it? An article on the topic is covered.

Find out where to find documentation updates listed about the Sun Storage 7000 2010.Q1 release, and learn more about the enterprise-wide monitoring provided by Oracle Grid Control and Sun Storage 7000 Appliances.

The same people who were passionate about Project Wonderland are taking the initiative to advance the technology under the Open Wonderland Foundation.

Election results are in for the OpenSolaris 2010 - 2011 Governing Board.

Java creator James Gosling discusses Oracle, Java EE 6 and more during his keynote at TheServerSide Java Symposium.

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