Sun News this week reports on Sun's acquisition of Aduva [16158]; Sun's new state-of-the-art development and technology center in Prague [16157]; venture capitalists and entrepreneurs test drive of the company's latest technologies [16179]; and an on-demand Sun Net Talk focuses on service oriented architecture [16148].

Find out how Sun's CIO works his IT budget [16096] in Features, which also covers federated identity and internet business practices [16144]; Sun's "One Touch" supply chain [16150]; and interviews with the specification lead for JavaTM Platform, Enterprise Edition (JavaTM EE) 5 [16136] and staff engineer on Sun's web technologies and standards team Arun Gupta [16108].

Read about Sun's work to integrate storage and identity management software [16152]; SolarisTM 10 Operating System's (Solaris OS) support of SAS software [16176]; an upgraded Sun Compliance and Content Management solution with new functionality for Lotus Notes [16149]; and more.

JavaTM technology section has information on the new versions of the JavaTM Platform, Standard Edition (JavaTM SE) [16177]; Sun's new mobile Java Web site [16134]; Ask the Experts' topic: JavaTM Web Start [16067]; and the early access release of SunTM Game Server [16142].

In Security, learn how to free up CPU cycles with the UtraSPARCR T1 processor [16146]; SolarisTM Fingerprint Database [16147]; and how to secure common web servers [16135].

Promotions highlighted this week include a 60-day free trial of Sun FireTM T2000 Servers [16156]; a double value offer with Sun Fire[TM} UltraSPARCR IV servers [16155]; 80 percent off Sun JavaTM System Portal Server [16133]; and 15 percent trade-in allowance for Sun StorEdgeTM NAS Systems [16163].

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The EPA is joining Sun to define a standard metric to measure the energy efficiency of servers [16251]. Sun's UltraSPARCR T1 Processor recently received a 2006 Environment Prize [16224]. Get an overview of Sun's latest technologies for the media, entertainment and broadcasting industries [16255]. Over 1,000 applications are shipping with SolarisTM 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) [16239].

The new AMD Opteron Model 256 processor is now available for the Sun UltraTM 40 workstation [16195], which was recently reviewed by eWeek Labs [16078].

Updates in the Sun JavaTM System include identity manager being certified for SAP NetWeaver [16151], an upgraded availability suite [16173] and its enterprise system now supports HPUX and Windows [16197].

Client Systems section examines the SunTM Secure Global Desktop Software [16222] [16223].

Developer covers Java DB [16160], OSS Common API [16229], linkage specification [16154] and validating data in near real-time with AJAX [16189].

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By introducing the Netra ACTA blade server for the telco market, Sun plans to capture more of the blade server market [16183]. IDC says the blade server market is expected to grow to $10 billion by 2009. Also newly released is the Sun Ray 2 and Sun Ray 2FS with higher resolution and security (see the new Client Systems section for details). See new performance records for Sun Fire x64 systems with AMD Opteron processors [16218]. The Opteron is a key differentiator in the highly competitive server space.

In more server news, the Sun Fire T1000 server of the CoolThreads family, is available [16221]. We've also got a review of the Sun Fire T2000 server [16137].

The Education section presents case studies outlining how universities manage growth with Sun technology. Developers will find news about NetBeans [16217] and the UEI spec [16185].

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Sun President Jonathan Schwartz has been named the new Sun CEO as Scott McNealy steps aside to focus on his role as chairman for the company and Sun Federal, Inc. [16303]. Fiscal year 2006 third quarter results shows revenues up 21 percent, while net loss hits 6 cents per share [16252].

In other announcements, the Sun Enterprise Migration Suite is introduced [16259] as is the Green Grid association [16282], plus multiple benchmarks are set by Sun products [16258], [16291], [16288].

Sun Executive VP David Yen discusses new SPARCR processors that are in the works [16253]. Sun's Developer Products Group CTO James Gosling shares his views on AJAX [16243].

Oracle Database 10g Release 2 is now available for SolarisTM 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) on x64 Platforms [16260]. Find out more about SunTM Studio 11 [16184], its debugger dbx [16249] and how to use its profile feedback [16248].

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