Former Sun channel executive Tom Wagner, who once served as vice president of the company's North America partner sales, has been hired by Oracle to handle the company's new hardware division, reported Joseph F. Kovar for ChannelWeb. As part of Oracle's acquisition of Sun, this new hardware division is expected to continue the production and future development of much of Sun's server, storage, operating system and software business as Oracle has promised to do.
A new cloud-based Desktop as a Service is being offered for educational institutions by Sun and Ashbourne Technology Group. The multi-platform service provides a virtual desktop experience for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris to most client devices, including Sun Ray thin clients and other platforms with Java-based browsers.
The new Sun Ray Software 5 is now available via download, while the physical media kit is expected to be released December 4th. This release improves the end user experience with a broader choice of end client devices, improved Adobe Flash performance and expanded support for USB peripheral devices. Additionally, Sun Ray Software 5 improves application server support, by adding support for Windows Server 2008. With the release of Version 5, Sun announced the end of life for Sun Ray Software 4 10/08.
The Sun Partner Advantage Program for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) has some new development hardware offerings that include Sun Ultra 27 Assemble to Order (ATO); Sun Fire X2270, X4170 X4270, and X4275 Servers ATO; standard configurations for the Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000, T5120, T5140, T5220, and T5240 Servers; among others. As part of this program, qualified Sun partners are able to purchase products, such as these, at discounted rates.
The European Union (EU) confirmed that Oracle President Safra Catz met with EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes for negotiations over the company’s acquisition of Sun, which disclosed in a SEC filing this week that it plans on cutting up to 3,000 jobs due to the delay in the acquisition.
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