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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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Jonathan Schwartz Named Sun CEO
Scott McNealy to Continue in Role as Sun Chairman
As part of a "carefully architected succession plan," Jonathan Schwartz has been named Sun's new CEO while Scott McNealy will continue in his role as Sun chairman as well as take on a new position as chairman of Sun Federal Inc. These changes were effective immediately upon the announcement, which was made on April 24, 2006.
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Sun Reports Revenues Up 21% for Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2006
Acquisitions and Growth in Traditional Markets Cited for Increase
Sun's fiscal third quarter that ended March 26, 2006, reported a 21 percent revenue increase with US$3.177 billion compared to $2.627 billion in the same period last year. The company's net loss for the three month period was $217 million, or 6 cents a share, compared with $28 million, or 1 cent, for the third quarter of fiscal 2005.
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Sun Enterprise Migration Suite Announced
Answers Concerns on Potential Risks, Costs, Time for Complex Migrations
Sun has announced the upcoming release of the Sun Enterprise Migration Suite - a sequence of services designed to make it easier to move to the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) and x64 server platforms. The suite utilizes formal methodologies and tools to help an enterprise's justification to migrate more accurate, flexible and robust.
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Leading IT Vendors Launch the Green Grid Association
Goal to Lower Overall Consumption of Power in Data Centers
Sun has teamed with AMD, HP, IBM and Rackable Systems in launching the Green Grid - an association designed to assist IT professionals and data center managers create more energy-efficient data centers worldwide. The organization's goal is to lower the overall consumption of power in data centers.
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Sun Fire X2100 Servers Set Records on MCAE Applications
32 Node Cluster Earns New Benchmarks on LS-DYNA and Fluent
Sun Fire X2100 servers have set two new world-record benchmarks for real-world mechanical computer-aided engineering (MCAE) applications. Its 32-node cluster powered by AMD's Opteron Model 156 processor, the highest-performing single-core AMD Opteron 100 series processor, has set records on both the LS-DYNA and Fluent benchmarks.
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Oracle and Sun Team Up to Break SAP Benchmark Record
Beat Best Results Achieved by Microsoft SQL Server 2005i
Oracle Database 10g running on a Sun Fire E6900 with the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) have set a world record result on the SAP Transaction Banking (TRBK) Standard Application Benchmark, surpassing the best result of Microsoft SQL Server 2005i.
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MySQL Database Demonstrates Preference for Solaris 10 OS
Benchmarks Shows up to 90% Faster Run on Sun's OS than Red Hat Linux
The open source MySQL 5.0.18 database running an online transaction processing (OLTP) workload on the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) and Sun Fire V40z servers executed functions up to 64 percent faster in read/write mode and up to 91 percent faster in read-only mode than Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Advanced Server Edition OS.
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Top Ten Articles for Last 3 Issues
Vol 98 Issues 1, 2 and 3
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:
- 98.3: Virtualize Applications and Desktops with Sun Secure Global Desktop Software
- 98.2: New Carrier-grade Netra AdvancedTCA Blade Server Line
- 98.1: Aduva Acquisition by Sun Completed
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Two New SPARC Processors in the Works
Niagara II and Rock Are in the Pipeline
Sun has begun work on two new SPARC processors, the Niagara II and the Rock, reports Stephen Shankland for CNET News.com. The new Niagara II is geared for lower-end servers and the Rock for high-end applications.
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Struggling with AJAX
James Gosling Shares His Take on the Blow-by-blow Process
James Gosling, father of Java technology and CTO of Sun's Developer Products group, shared his views on Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) components and their incorporation into web applications with Darryl K. Taft, eWEEK senior editor in a piece entitled "Gosling Outlines the Trouble With AJAX."
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'Conscientious Software': A New Approach to Development
Ron Goldman Shares His Insights with Janice J. Heiss
Ron Goldman is a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems Laboratories currently engaged in research with colleague Richard Gabriel on what the pair term "conscientious software," large systems that are robust, stable and capable of managing themselves. Janice J. Heiss spoke with Goldman recently and reported part one of her interview for the Sun Developer Network.
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Sun, Fidelity National Develop Financial Services Solution
Aggregates Customer Information from Various Sources
Using customer data integration (CDI) technologies and a service oriented architecture (SOA), Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) and Sun Microsystems have developed a solution for the aggregation of banking customer information from a variety of different sources. The application is based on the Sun Java Enterprise System.
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Oracle Database 10g Release 2 for Solaris 10 on x64 Platforms
Download Release Today
Sun and Oracle customers now have the Oracle Database 10g Release 2 available for the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) on the x64 (x86, 64-bit) platform. This release gives customers even more flexibility to choose the type of environment that best fits their needs.
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IDC White Paper Examines Sun Studio 11
Explores the Latest Features of this Next-generation of Development Tool
Business factors influencing organizations today in making the right IT decisions range from productivity and performance demands to agility and bottom-line value. These factors are important to businesses when selecting IT solutions. An IDC white paper assesses Sun Studio 11 and how it answers these business needs for C, C++ and Fortran environments.
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Sun Studio Debugger: dbx
Interpreting and Fixing Error Messages with this Debugger
Error messages appearing with the Sun Studio debugger dbx could be due to a variety of issues, and Maxim Kartashev with Sun Microsystems Inc. presents a concise rundown on what various dbx error messages mean and how to resolve these issues in a Sun Developer Network article entitled, "Why Can't dbx Find My Function?"
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Sun Studio Profile Feedback: Stages and Tips
Using the Feedback-based Optimization Technique
For better application performance, it is prudent to build them with profile feedback. However, having to build applications once to collect profile data and again to use the profile to generate optimal code is often a deterrent. A Sun Developer Article provides tips for easing the time and effort put into profile feedback builds.
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Java Technology
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Java BluePrints AJAX Components Early-access Download
Based on JavaServer Faces Technology
Recognizing the increasing popularity of Asynchronous JavaScript with XML (AJAX), Java BluePrints has made an early access set of AJAX components built with JavaServer Faces technology for the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.4 and the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 5 available for download.
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Java Card Platform Specification 2.2.2 Available as Download
Introduces New Features, Includes Backward-compatibility
Java Card technology is the leading open, cross-platform and cross-vendor interoperable platform for smart cards and secure tokens. The Java Card Platform Specification Version 2.2.2 is available for download and introduces several optional additions to the Java Card platform that provide specific support for the latest contactless and ID cards.
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Jini Technology Goes to Apache
Sun Hopes Open Source Will Revitalize the Architecture
Jini technology is being revitalized, reports Jim Hurley, community lead for Jini.org, who revealed that Sun Microsystems is handing the architecture over to Apache, making it a more open and accessible technology and eliminating the perception that the Jini Community is a closed society by changing the licensing structure from SCSL to open source.
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Sun Center of Excellence Slated for India
Sun Microsystems, Wipro Technologies Sign New Pact
Sun and Wipro Technologies have agreed on plans to establish the first Sun Center of Excellence for the Sun Java Enterprise System in India. With this move, Wipro extends its 17-year-long relationship with Sun. Most recently Wipro became a global migration partner for the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS).
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Security and Open Source
Government Realizing Benefits of Open Source
In a SearchOpenSource.com article, writer Andrew Bardin Williams seeks an answer on whether open source solutions are secure enough for government IT infrastructure. Gartner Analyst John Pescatore believes that many open source solutions are more secure than closed source solutions and may even be a better fit in the government sector.
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Idaho National Laboratory Looks to Sun for Infrastructure Support
Now Has Secure, Collaborative, Enhanced Computational Environment
The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) had been designated as the lead laboratory for nuclear energy research in 2002. With this responsibility assigned, the INL needed to ensure that it had a highly secure, flexible and transparent collaborative computational capability that could be reached by its international partners. To fulfill this requirement, INL turned to Sun.
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GE Security to Combine Security Solution with Sun's Identity Management Suite
To Reduce Processes, Lower Costs, Maintain Physical and Logical Security
GE Security, a communication and IT company and subsidiary of the General Electric Company, will be combining its Picture Perfect Version 4 Security Management System with the Sun Java System Identity Management Suite.
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