The Sun Grid Compute Utility's power and cost efficiency are being taken advantage of by financial services organizations who are seizing on the benefits of this pay-per-use utility [16119]. Sun Developer Network is offering two new programs for registered SDN developers [16117]. New blade servers powered by AMD and Sun's UltraSPARCR T1 processors are expected later this year [16092].
NetBeansTM announcements include a NetBeans C/C++ Development Pack release [16114]; a universal version of NetBeansTM Enterprise Pack that offers enterprise-class JavaTM application development tools for Apple's Mac OS X [16111]; and information on NetBeansTM Software Day scheduled for May 15 [16112].
This week's Promotions section covers a 15 percent off deal for Sun FireTM T2000 servers [16122]; free Oracle database with the purchase of UltraSPARCR IV and IV+ servers [16123]; and up to a 44 percent discount on a Sun StorEdgeTM package [16124].
Developers, learn how to deal with hardware-specific instructions on unsupported hardware [16099]; qualify applications to support non-global zones [16073]; migrate to Sun JavaTM Studio Enterprise 8 from Eclipse, JBuilder and IBM WebSphere [16043]; use web services in Project Glassfish [16121]; and understand JDIC file-type associations [16086].
The BioCluster Grid [15995] and SunTM Discovery Cluster [15984] are presented in the Life Sciences section.
Read how Sun's acquisitions are promoting developments in Healthcare [15787] and are leading to healthcare providers moving to Sun IT infrastructure [15932].
Two draft specifications have been released as part of Sun Labs' Project DReaM [16118]. OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 is now available [16084] and one author speculates on it replacing MS Office in businesses [16083]. Plus, get free label-making templates for OpenOffice.org Writer [16101].
Customers with specified HP, IBM or Dell servers are eligible for 15 percent off the list price of configurations of the Sun Fire T2000 Server when trading in one of these competitor products. The Sun Fire T2000 Server is a fast as well as space and energy efficient server ideal for web-tier and app-tier environments.
All you need do is to purchase any new Sun Fire UltraSPARC IV or Sun Fire UltraSPARC IV+ system, upgrade, or CPU board add-on in order to automatically qualify to receive Oracle database licenses free when you also sign up for one year of discounted Oracle database support services through Sun.
If you are in the process of centralizing data storage at your enterprise, then Sun's offer of up to 44 percent off the price of a Sun StorEdge 5310 NAS Gateway bundled with a Sun StorEdge 6130 RAID Array should be of interest. The offer is good through June 1, 2006.
Sun Executive Vice President of its Scalable Systems Group David Yen says Sun will be releasing an Opteron-based Netra blade server during the second quarter of 2006, and blade servers powered by its UltraSPARC T1 processors that are expected to be available in the second half of this year.
The Sun Developer Expert Assistance Service and Sun Community Champions Program are two new developer programs that Sun recently introduced for its more than 1.7 million developers registered with the Sun Developer Network (SDN). The former provides e-mail-based technical assistance and the latter is a new developer recognition program.
Some organizations within the financial services industry are taking advantage of the Sun Grid Compute Utility's open, grid-based computing infrastructure that is offered on a pay-per-use basis. One such customer is CDO2, who in conjunction with Markit Group Limited, is using the Sun Grid to serve its own customers like the bank Sachsen LB Europe plc.
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:
The Sun Developer Network article "Managing and Monitoring Web Services in Project GlassFish" by Satish Viswanatham and Nazrul Islam, with contributions from Marina Sum, provides readers with a means to manage and monitor tasks for web services on the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 1.4 (Java EE) using Project GlassFish, an open-source, application-server implementation of Java EE 5.
Supporting non-global zones in the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) sometimes requires the administrator to qualify an application. Chien Yen addresses this issue in his Sun Developer Network article "Qualification Best Practices for Application Support in Non-Global Zone," which focuses on the Solaris Zones feature of Solaris Containers.
Tim Jacobson discusses the means to circumvent the problems that arise when applications implement hardware-specific instructions on unsupported hardware in his Sun Developer Network article "Modifying Hardware Capabilities (HWCAP)," in which he reviews the bits set in the object file of a program by Sun Studio compilers.
Users of Eclipse, JBuilder and WebSphere who wish to migrate to the Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8 will find step-by-step how-to guides on the Sun Developer Network site in the article entitled "Migrating to Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8." All three guides include examples that clarify the concepts under discussion.
Among the several concerns of the JDesktop Integration Components (JDIC) project, sponsored by Sun, is setting desktop file-type associations. Jack Conradson's Sun Developer Network article "Understanding JDIC File-Type Associations" examines that aspect of the project in detail.
Sun released two draft specifications for content protection technologies as part of the Sun Labs' Project DReaM (DRM/everywhere available): DReaM-CAS (Conditional Access System) and DReaM-MMI (Mother May I). Sun also released open source code for a prototype implementation of the DReaM-CAS conditional access system.
Download today a free copy of OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 that introduces a major new component known as Base, which is an easy-to-use database manager with a fully integrated database. OpenOffice.org Version 2.0.2 is completely free of any license fees, available in over 30 languages and offered on all major computing platforms.
Robin Miller, author of "Point & Click OpenOffice.org" and editor-in-chief of Open Source Technology Group, told SearchOpenSource.com that OpenOffice.org 2.0 could replace Microsoft Office in business offices, with a little help from StarOffice and better training vehicles from the open source community. He compared the two office suites in a recent interview.
Worldlabel.com is offering free OpenOffice.org templates for making labels with office suite's Writer application. Designed to work with Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS), this template is downloadable from Worldlabel.com's Web site.
The day before the 2006 JavaOne Conference, the NetBeans Software Team will host its annual free companion event at the Argent Hotel near Moscone Center in San Francisco. This May 15th event will feature an array of Java technology luminaries, including the Father of Java and Sun CTO of the Developer Products group James Gosling.
A Universal version of the NetBeans Enterprise Pack 5.5 is available as a free preview version, which includes NetBeans 5.5 IDE preview version and new tools for developing the latest set of time-saving features for Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) architects and programmers.
A preview version of the NetBeans C/C++ Development Pack has been released, allowing developers to edit, compile and build C and C++ applications on multiple operating systems, including the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS), Linux and Windows. This plug-in is supported in NetBeans 5.0 and preview versions of NetBeans Enterprise Pack 5.5.
With its acquisition of SeeBeyond and StorageTek, Sun placed itself into a position to offer healthcare institutions end-to-end infrastructure solutions. Such current issues as health record portability, digitization of hard-copy medical images and continuity of care are more easily managed with the healthcare IT infrastructure that is now part of Sun's product family.
Geisinger Health System recently selected Sun to power several major components of its Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) in Pennsylvania. Initially, the Geisinger RHIO will connect three area hospitals, enabling them to electronically share health information and laboratory results. Plans are to expand the network up to eight additional health systems within three years.
The Bio-ClusterGrid is the first of many deployment architectures that realizes the benefit of the BioBox initiative. The Bio-ClusterGrid is a package of open-source Grid Engine, Sun Java System Portal Server, open-source bioinformatics applications and integration scripts. The whole package is aimed to set up a decent size bioinformatics cluster in a matter of hours.
The Sun Discovery Cluster for Life Sciences, a turnkey solution engineered expressly to answer the demands of biotech, pharmaceuticals, academic and other life sciences organizations, offers users a cost-effective implementation with good ROI. Andy Bechtolsheim, Sun founder and chief architect, leads a Sun Net talk discussion on the Sun Discovery Cluster.
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