Sun has donated two parallel clusters to the American
Museum of Natural History, one that includes 24 Sun Fire V60X
servers, and the other three Sun Fire V1280 servers and one Sun
Fire V880z visualization server running the Solaris Operating
System (Solaris OS). The Museum's Department of Astrophysics will use
the arrays for research into the formation and evolution of stars, star
clusters and galaxies.
The Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) of New South Wales (NSW) has
chosen Sun solutions for its new email and calendar applications. Some
1,500 RTA users will migrate from the authority's legacy system to the
Sun Java System Messaging and Calendar servers. This is the largest
open standards-based software rollout in NSW government.
Betfair.com, the world's largest betting exchange, has called on Sun and its iForce Partner Ultima Business Systems to provide a scalable system to handle its weekly turnover of 50 million pounds. Betfair is the trading name of The Sporting Exchange Ltd. founded to commercialize proprietary betting technology.
Belgacom Housing and Business Recovery Services, one of the leading
suppliers of global telecommunications solutions on the Belgian market,
has met the stringent standards that qualify it for certification
under the SunTone Initiative.
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