If you still need evidence that open source and open standards have real benefits for the consumer, consider Marc Hamilton's remarks on the Sun Virtual Network Express Module (NEM) that sells for far less than the $4,000 per network switch port that some vendors charge.
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A member of the BidAdmin Community, Vijay Shankar Upreti has submitted a paper entitled "Installing and Configuring Logical Domains (LDoms) for the Solaris 10 OS" that details the process step-by-step. Upreti's procedure applies to the installation and configuration of Logical Domains Manager 1.0.3 software on UltraSPARC T1 or UltraSPARC T2 processor-based platforms as well. The author adds that the procedure has been tested on the Solaris 10 5/08 Operating System.
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As Sun has been saying for over a year now, its 16-core Rock server chip is expected to hit the marketplace in the second half of 2009 with delivery coming sometime this fall. John Fowler, executive vice president of systems at Sun, said in an interview with IDG's Agam Shah, "The processor is in various stages of debug. We're getting close [to release]."
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