Dell and HP will be certifying and reselling Oracle Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM on their respective x86 platforms.
Oracle offers advice to VARs on the best way to make money as a partner.
PC/SC-Lite 1.3 for Sun Ray Server Software has critical bug fixes and offers an optional package to use external USB smart card readers on Sun Ray clients.
The current state of tape technology is examined, as is ZFS performance and its connections to synchronous writes and ZIL.
Considerations are presented on why one might want to switch from the Eclipse platform to NetBeans.
A white paper highlights the advantages of Oracle GlassFish Server 3 for businesses, while another suggests effective virtualization of Java EE deployments can be made with Oracle WebLogic Suite.
A how-to on using ISC DHCP for the OpenSolaris Automated Installer is shared. See Entire Issue
Oracle plans to concentrate its energies on the commercial version of Solaris, and developers are directed to Solaris 11 Express binary releases.
A look at Oracle's lawsuit against Google for its use of Java.
Wim Coekaerts reports full utilization of all 64 cores of the Sun Fire X4800 server can be had even without hyperthreading enabled.
Oracle's channel continues its outreach to Sun VARs.
Recently published guides assist with the development of a complete Swing application built on NetBeans Platform 6.9, and advanced administration on GNU/Linux.
Updates on Oracle/Sun-related technologies include Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition (ODSEE) 11gR1 (formerly Sun DSEE); Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) 3.2; OpenOffice.org 3.3.0 Beta 1; and MySQL Workbench 5.2.2.
The Sun SPOT Online Store is now open for business. See Entire Issue
Five-year roadmap for Sun's SPARC-based servers and next year's planned release of Solaris 11 was outlined by Oracle this week. In another update, the Oracle Grid Engine team says the technology is alive and well, and has a roadmap of its own.
Make some time for a live Oracle virtualization online forum set for Aug. 19th with Oracle's Chief Corporate Architect Edward Screven and System Executive Vice President John Fowler.
Oracle has temporarily decided to provide the CVE numbers to individual patch mapping, and is looking for customer feedback on instituting a permanent policy.
Multiple new releases are available including:
There are hints about the upcoming Oracle Solaris 10 9/10, including a new ossadm Command-line Interface, which is available now as a patch. See Entire Issue
Oracle executives recently made their case on why its virtualization portfolio beats other vendors. Take a tour of the Sun Ray 3+ and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).
The announcement of the upcoming Oracle Solaris 11 has produced opinions on expectations for the community.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is expected to present Oracles vision and strategy for Java at JavaOne 2010. The recent release of Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11g aims to help accelerate Java development tasks.
The Sun Certification Program will be integrated with Oracle's beginning Sept. 1.
The evolution of parallel programming is discussed, as is the distinction between 'exadata' and 'database machine'.
Tips on keeping track of OpenSolaris logins and logouts are shared. Also find out more about scaling Web services with MySQL Cluster and get some background information on Logzilla and Readzilla. See Entire Issue
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