In this week's Sun News, Chief Open Source Officer Simon Phipps discusses the company's open source strategy and shares insights on the burgeoning open source market with System News Editor-in-Chief and CTO John J. McLaughlin [15217]. An IDC report analyzes Sun's acquisition of Nauticus Networks [15098]. Eighteen suppliers were honored by Sun's 15th Annual Supplier Awards Program [15197]. Expansion plans are in the works for a Sun Russian center [15097]. And, MIT's Technology Review recognizes Sun engineer Bryan Cantrill [15148].
Sun Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy advises customers on IT agreements [15150], while Sun President and COO Jonathan Schwartz explains why desktops are becoming obsolete [15199]. Also in Features, find out how JavaTM technology entered the DARPA Grand Challenge [15176] and why Sun leaders believe in blogs [15090].
Announcements in Hardware include 1.5GHz UltraSPARCTM IV+ Uniboards [15179]; alloy-like designed SunTM Rack Cabinets [15178]; Sun IB Switch 9p and Sun Dual Port 4x IB Host Channel Adapter PCI-X [15181]; and hardware spare parts [15180].
Learn how to configure multiboot environments [15168] and update the BIOS and Service Processor [15169] on Sun x64 servers.
The Sun and Standards section invites readers to the next international conference on IT industry standardization scheduled for December [15198].
Technical documents in SysAdmin cover tools to increase developer productivity [15137]; Sun's Service Delivery Network [15170]; powering the IP Multimedia Subsystem [15100]; and using profile feedback to improve application performance [15163].
Discounts and promotions top the Sun Education Users section with a list of discounted products [15112] and savings for the Sun RayTM 170 Ultra-thin clients [15172]. Plus, read about Sun customer wins [15037][15212][15091] and Sun's latest Education partner [15174].
Open source is about creating ubiquity, and the software it produces, as well as the individuals working on it, do not necessarily come without a price tag, clarified Sun's Chief Open Source Officer Simon Phipps during an interview with System News Editor-in-Chief and CTO John J. McLaughlin.
Sun's acquisition of Nauticus Networks' technology [12192] may have come just at the right time. An IDC report reveals expectations of the Layer 4-7 switch market to grow from USD$650 million in 2004 to $1 billion in 2009, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of just over 9 percent.
Sun's 15th Annual Supplier Awards Program named Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) as Supplier of the Year for its contributions in delivering top quality technology and service to Sun customers. Other award categories recognizing top suppliers, who also offer Sun customers superior quality and value, include Best-in-Class and Meritorious Performance.
Sun's center in St. Petersburg has been chosen as one of a possible four expected to be expanding within the next 10 months, announced Sun representatives at a news conference in the Russian city held early in September. This expansion could see approximately 200 employees added to the Russian center's roster.
MIT's magazine of innovation "Technology Review" selected Sun Senior Staff Engineer Bryan Cantrill as one of 35 young innovators under the age of 35 who exemplify the spirit of contemporary innovation in technology. The "Technology Review 35" (TR35) recognizes individuals that have the potential to profoundly impact the world.
Each week, we determine which articles have been most frequently referenced by logged-in subscribers to provide you with a list of the most popular articles for each of the last three issues. The Web version of this article lists the top 10 articles for each of the last three issues. The top articles for the three most recent issues were:
91.3: New UltraSPARC IV+ Powering Five Sun Fire Servers
91.2: New to Solaris: A One-stop Center for All Your Solaris OS Needs
91.1: Significant Market Shift Expected by Impact from Multicore Processing
Sun has found a solution to the market's lack of an open source license that would both enable community sharing and allow for profitability with its Community Development and Distribution License (CDDL). So said Scott McNealy, Sun chairman and CEO, to a meeting of IT industry representatives in Singapore in mid-September.
The next big IT thing, says Sun President and COO Jonathan Schwartz, is web services, and they won't deliver their utility to customers over the desktop, but rather on a mobile phone handset. In his view, the PCs days are numbered, as Stephen Shankland reports for CNET News.com.
When the starting flag goes down at the California Speedway in Fontana on October 8, a field of 20 unmanned, autonomous vehicles will compete for a USD$2 million prize in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Grand Challenge. One of the vehicles could be "Tommy," which is controlled by Java technology solutions.
Perhaps the best assessment of blogging lies in what Tim Bray, director of Web Technologies at Sun, told Juan Carlos Perez with IDG News Service: "If you don't have an employee base that you can trust to talk to the world...then blogging is the least of your problems."
Sun will be releasing new 1.5GHz UltraSPARC IV+ Uniboards supported across its entire midrange and high-end server line in the next few weeks. These uniboards are designed to allow Sun Fire servers to deliver up to 50-80 percent increased throughput over the UltraSPARC IV-based servers and 3-3.5 times the throughput of the UltraSPARC III-based systems.
Sun customers, partners and resellers who need to rack and power their data center network products and are looking to simplify and speed deployment of new systems may want to consider the new alloy look design of Sun Rack Cabinets. These will be generally available October 13th.
Sun is announcing the Sun InfiniBand (IB) Switch 9p and Sun Dual Port 4x IB Host Channel Adapter PCI-X. Based on 4x(10Gbps) IB technology, these Sun hardware products now offer customers the ability to scale horizontally in clustered configurations without losing performance.
Recent releases of new and repriced Sun hardware spare parts include CPU motherboards for the Sun Fire V440 server and Sun StorEdge disk drives. These Sun products incorporate design improvements by Sun engineering and have been updated to reflect the latest revisions.
Barton Fiske's Sun BluePrints OnLine article gives detailed procedures for configuring Sun x64 workstations with AMD Opteron processors to boot more than one operating system or "multibooting" - the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS), Linux and Windows - from the same physical hard drive.
A Sun BluePrints OnLine article written by Pierre Reynes provides detailed, step-by-step instructions for performing BIOS and Service Processor updates on Sun Fire V20z or Sun Fire V40z servers and Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or Microsoft Windows XP operating environments.
Sun's Education Software Product Discount List contains numerous solutions available at discounts to education customers. There are no restrictions on the on-campus uses of software purchased from this list. All prices on the list are for the U.S. market and may change without notice.
For a limited time, education and research customers can save 17 percent on the Sun Ray 170 ultra-thin client, featuring an all-in-one design with the client built into a 17-inch TFT flat-panel monitor. The stateless nature of Sun Ray ultra-thin clients allows for complete session mobility and improved workflow.
Sun will provide the bulk of the IT infrastructure required to implement the Korean National Education Information System (NEIS). Sun's contribution will include 1,200 Sun Fire V40z x64 (x86, 64-bit) servers and 200 Sun Fire V440 and Sun Fire V240 SPARC-based servers, all running the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS).
SQL Star International Ltd. has become an authorized education partner of Sun Microsystems in India, where SQL will begin offering courses in Java technology. SQL Star will also set up Sun Learning Centers where students can receive instruction in the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) and the Sun Java Enterprise System.
The University of Toronto at Scarborough (UTSC) has standardized its mixed computing environment with the adoption of Sun's StarOffice Office Productivity Software, which runs on the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS), Windows, Linux and Mac OS X systems using NeoOffice, a Mac-supported version of OpenOffice software.
Georgetown University will implement its regional health information network (RHIO) initiative using the Sun Java Integration Suite to integrate its existing network of electronic health record (EHR) systems and InstantDx, an e-prescribing solution as the basis for OnCallData, which will enable electronic prescriptions and refill requests in real time at the point of care.
Tom Dwyer has written a white paper advising the importance of adopting state-of-the-art tools and integrated development environments (IDEs) to achieve high levels of productivity among developer teams along with better quality applications. In this report, Dwyer addresses performance improvement, project productivity and quality assurance benefits of the latest developer productivity approaches.
Sun's Service Delivery Network (SDN) is an approach used to design service optimized network architectures for customer and in-house implementations with the goal of offering service delivery at any time, from anywhere, to any device. A September 2005 Sun BluePrints OnLine article introduces Sun's SDN.
IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) offers interactive, multimedia-enabled, Internet Protocol (IP)-based sessions that can incorporate any device, on any access network, from anywhere, at any time. A recent Sun white paper outlines a deployment strategy involving a Home Subscriber Server, one of the core components of the IMS architecture.
A Sun Developer Network article explains how using profile feedback can improve performance by providing the compiler with information on code behavior during runtime. Sun engineers Darryl Gove and Chris Aoki argue that this information can lead to significant performance enhancements and offer examples that demonstrate a 25 percent improvement.
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