Oracle’s Sun Fire X4800 M2, running Oracle Database 11g Release 2, achieved an x86 record of 4,803,718 transactions per minute (tpmC) with a price/performance of $.98/tpmC. The X4800 equipped with eight Intel Xeon E7-8870 processors and 4 Terabytes (TB) of Samsung’s Green DDR3 memory was nearly 3x faster than IBM's eight-processor result for a p570 and nearly 60 percent faster than the best DB2 result on IBM’s x86 server. The Sun Fire X4800 M2 delivered nearly 3x better price per TPC-C transaction than a 64-processor HP Superdome server and over 2.65x faster than HP’s best Proliant DL580 G7 score.
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An Oracle complaint filed in federal court alleges Micron Technology Inc. artificially inflated prices for microchips it sold to Sun Microsystems. The antitrust complaint filed Sept. 24 in San Jose, Calif., claims Micron and other makers of dynamic random access memory, or DRAM, conspired to fix prices for computer memory chips.
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"Why doesn't my signed MIDlet work?" is a resource created by the organization Java Verified and is designed to help developers successfully address some of the most common signing issues associated with Java ME applications. The "how to" checklist allows developers to quickly identify and solve four of the most common issues that would cause Java ME applications to work before signing, but not afterwards.
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Sun is offering Intel's 32GB X25-E Extreme Solid State Drives (SSD) in a 2.5-inch module that fits into 14 models of Sun Fire servers and Sun Storage 7000 systems. Customers can slide these modules right into their servers and storage bays and reduce energy costs and improve application performance at a starting price of $1,199. Servers with SSD start at $3,240 for the Sun Fire X6250 Blade system.
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Each month Sun Marketing publishes the "Good News" about Sun. This month there are 12 items and three groups:
Customers Choose Sun: Sun Java Wireless Client, Sun servers, Sun storage, Solaris 10, Sun StorageTek SL8500 modular library system and Sun StorageTek T10000B tape drives.
Leading Market Conversations: OpenStorage, NetBeans, Q-Layer and cloud computing, and MySQL
Product Reviews Underscore Innovation: Sun Storage 7110, Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.1, OpenSolaris, Sun Fire X4150, and Sun StorageTek 5800.
A two-page PDF of the "Good News" from Sun is available in English and several other languages.
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