Sun is enticing developers to try the Sun Grid Compute Utility with new programs and promotions specifically designed for them [16441]. Sun also reports that its Sun Fire server line has set records on the SPEC Java Business Benchmark [16442], and its technologies along with SAS solutions have achieved an ETL benchmark [16435]. The company also is helping power Asia's fastest supercomputer - TSUBAME [16423].
Sun executives Jonathan Schwartz [16426] and Richard Green [16451] each offer their perspectives on open sourcing Java technology.
In Client Systems, find out about the Sun Desktop Manager 1.0 installation and configuration guide [16394] as well as a course on Sun Secure Global Desktop Software 4.2 [16398].
Various features of the new Java EE 5 [16430], [16417], [16414] are covered in this week's edition. Also, learn about Sun's next steps in supporting AJAX development [16421] and early access to the next-generation Java ME [26431].
Don't miss the inaugural edition of NetBeans Magazine [16438] or the Service, Promotions and Web Events sections.
Sun is offering a "Developer Powerhouse" with hardware, software and support needed to build scalable applications all bundled into one package at a discounted rate of 76 percent off the retail price. This promotional package consists of the Sun Fire X2100 server, a perpetual Right-to-Use (RTU) license for software developer tools and a three-year service subscription.
Customers purchasing a qualified Sun Fire server can save 15 percent on eligible Sun StorEdge 5000 NAS Appliances in a Sun promotion running through June 1, 2006. With this special offer, customers can improve server performance and file services data availability by leveraging a new network attached storage (NAS) device.
A special offer from Sun is making the purchase of 20 or more Sun Fire X2100, Sun Fire X4100 and/or Sun Fire X4200 servers in a Sun Grid Rack System more inviting. The Sun Customer Ready Systems Program is offering a free rack cabinet, savings of 33 percent on rack integration charges and about US$64,000 in savings on software.
Receive a Free Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) with the purchase of selected Sun training or participation in a Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) Certification Coaching Program [16193] or Identity Management team training event. This limited time offer is applicable when a qualifying Sun training courses valued at US$2,500 or more is purchased.
Sun is enticing developers to try the Sun Grid Compute Utility with new programs specifically designed for developers, such as offering developers access to 100 free CPU hours on the Sun Grid; a contest in which developers can win up to US$100,000 in prizes; a private project space for independent software vendors (ISVs); and a Compute Server community project.
Sun Fire T1000 and Sun Fire T2000 servers running open source UltraSPARC T1 processors and the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) have set world-records for performance in recent SPEC Java Business benchmark (SPECjbb2005) testing, Sun reports. In addition, the Sun Fire X4100 and Sun Fire X4200 servers set two new world records on the SPECjbb2005 benchmark.
To demonstrate extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) of massive volumes of data into a data warehouse, Sun and SAS teamed up their products and set a second, world-record ETL performance benchmark. The solution consisted of the Sun Fire E25K server running UltraSPARC IV+ processors and the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) with SAS Enterprise Data Integration Server.
The fastest supercomputer outside the United States has been installed by the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) with Sun technologies. Known as TSUBAME, this supercomputer is powered by dual-core AMD Opteron processor-based Sun Fire x64 (x86, 64-bit) servers, marking Sun's largest high performance computing (HPC) win to date.
Sun will be hosting a live virtual class on the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 5 and Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3.0 this coming June 6 and 7. This expert-to-engineer session will be delivered live over the Internet and will include demonstrations as well as a question and answer period following each session.
Sun has new training options for the Sun Java System Identity Management Suite, a complete and integrated suite of tools that helps customers secure and manage user identities across a variety of computing infrastructures and application environments.
Two Sun certification coaching programs are now available for your administrative and programming teams - the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) Certification Coaching Program and the Sun Certified Java Programmer Coaching Program. Both programs present details about the certification process and test objectives along with practice exams and expert one-on-one feedback.
Learn how to design, implement, deploy and maintain secure web services and web service clients using Java technology components and the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) by signing up for the Sun course "Developing Secure Java Web Services" workshop (DWS-4487).
Sun CEO and President Jonathan Schwartz opened up to eWeek's Peter Galli on open-source Java technology in a recent interview. Galli found Schwartz "...a huge fan of open source and of lowering the barriers to entry for developers and customers across the world."
Richard Green, Sun's executive vice president of Software, shared his view of the process of open-sourcing Java technology code with Patrick Thibodeau in an interview for Computerworld. Sun has not yet determined a timetable for the release or decided how Java will be licensed as open-source, Green asserted.
Interoperability of such enterprise features as security, reliable messaging and atomic transactions are the preoccupations of both Sun and Microsoft's Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) engineers, who are working on a joint endeavor known as Project Tango - an open-source part of the GlassFish Community.
Sun's recent work with the JavaScript technology interpreter that is part of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) 6 and its support for AJAX components in the Sun Java Studio Creator tool are the focus of a conversation Jim Inscore held with Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart, Greg Murray and Vivek Nagar.
Sun's corporate position on the Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances (RoHS) in Electrical and Electronic Equipment as adopted by the European Union was articulated in YoungGon Lee's Sun Weblog recently. He noted Sun's intention to become fully compliant with the restrictions.
The Sun Desktop Manager 1.0 component of the Sun Ray software 4 gives administrators the ability to centrally define and configure user desktop settings easily. A new white paper by Rodrigo Fernandez-Vizarra and Cyrille Moureaux explains how to set up the software, how to configure the server and client, how to use the Sun Desktop Manager to improve desktop performance and more.
A new course covers administration of the Sun Secure Global Desktop software 4.2. Topics covered include an architectural overview, and lessons about scalability, security, and authentication.
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 four issues. The top articles for the three most recent issues were:
99.3: Guide to Managing Solaris ZFS in Solaris 10 Containers [16355]
99.2: Sun Fire T2000 Server's Database Performance [16372]
Sun is offering a new set of service and training offerings for the Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS) that aims to help customers maximize their existing IT investments and create new applications quickly, making their enterprises more competitive and responsive.
Sun Managed Operations has new management packages providing remote monitoring and remediation services that help increase system availability and reduce operational costs and complexity. The Sun System Monitoring and Sun Incident Response Packages provide monitoring for heterogeneous OS and Sun hardware.
The CoolApps Developer Challenge is actually two competitions among developers to (Contest A) create the best application that runs on Sun Grid Compute Utility and to (Contest B) create the best application built with the Compute Server Plugin for NetBeans. The contest is open to participants worldwide, even those currently unable to access the Sun Grid Compute Utility.
In their update to an earlier Sun Developer Network article, John Stearns, Roberto Chinnici and Sahoo provide information on a comparison of development on Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.4 with Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 5, along with a new section on packaging Java EE 5 applications.
The support for annotations newly provided in the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 5 makes the developer's task easier, writes Ryan Lubke in his Sun Developer Network article "Web Tier to Go With Java EE 5: A Look at Resource Injection." This improvement stems from the ability of annotations to enable injecting dependencies, resources, services and life-cycle notifications into a Java EE 5 platform application.
In a recent pair of BigAdmin articles entitled "Observability Using Java SE 5.0, 6 and Solaris OS," A. Sundararajan and Jim Holmlund discuss the observability tools that are part of both the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) 5.0 and the Java SE 6.0, as well as the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS).
Rahul Biswas and Ed Ort explain the improvements to be found in the Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0(EJB) technology available in version 5 of the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE). Without compromising the power and functionality previously found in the platform, users will discover EJB a much easier to learn and use feature of the new release, one that requires far less coding than was involved in using EJB 2.1.
How to install and use PHP is the subject of Joe McCabe's Sun Developer Network article on using this scripting language with the Sun Java System Web Server. McCabe finds a useful synergy in the scalability of the Java System Web Server and the versatility of the PHP engine that delivers a stable, high-performance web deployment platform for dynamic content.
The Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 (Java 5) was launched during the 2006 JavaOne Conference held May 16-19 in San Francisco, touting development ease, rapidity, economy and support for all of the latest SOA technologies, including a major revision to the programming model, updated web services standards and simplified web application creation.
Sun is reinforcing its commitment to AJAX and the next generation of web application development on the Java platform by launching two new comprehensive online resources for AJAX application development along with an open source JavaScript Wrapper Framework for the Java platform - Project jMaki.
Take advantage of the early access Sun is offering to a suite of tools and platform products supporting the new standard blueprint for next-generation Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME) application development. These new products are based on the new Mobile Service Architecture - Java Specification Request (JSR) 248 and JSR 209 (Advanced Graphical User Interfaces) specifications.
Sun has a new RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) and Sensor-based java.net community, giving developers access to a community of expert colleagues, a full package of information and product demos, free RFID software, toolkits, sample source and other community resources for the creation of RFID and sensor-based products, applications and services.
Winners of the fourth annual Duke's Choice Awards, which recognize the most innovative Java technology-based applications of the year, were honored during the 2006 JavaOne Conference held May 16-19 in San Francisco. Winners are selected by Sun Fellow and CTO of Sun's Developer Products Group James Gosling along with a panel of Java technology experts at Sun.
The NetBeans organization issued its first edition of NetBeans Magazine as part of the third annual NetBeans Software Day and the 2006 JavaOne Conference that took place in mid-May. This special first edition of NetBeans Magazine showcases a wide selection of IDE and extension features, from desktop and web development to plug-in module creation.
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