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Sun’s Charles Dietzel has posted five predictions for 2008 on his blog, stating “…these are predictions based on no special knowledge - just simply looking at the state of where things are and where I think they will go:
1. This is the year of the Social Desktop Applications. There will be increased focus on […]

“Software Solutions - From Desktop to Datacenter” is a 44-slide presentation from Chris Baker in Solaris Marketing at Sun.
Baker’s top 10 reasons the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) is the strategic choice:
1. Constant innovation
2. Free
3. Open source
4. Incredible performance
5. Enterprise class, worldwide, 24×7 cost-effective support
6. Runs on more hardware
7. Runs more applications
8. Protection of customers
9. […]

Chairman and Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems and Chairman of Sun Federal Scott McNealy’s slide presentation “Open Wins: Leadership and Innovation” is available for viewing on mediacast.sun.com. The 25-slide presentation is offered in PDF format.

Darryl Gove, a senior engineer in Sun’s Compiler Performance Engineering group, has written a new book called. “Solaris Application Programming“.
The publisher describes the book as …
… a comprehensive guide to optimizing the performance of applications running in your Solaris environment. From the fundamentals of system performance to using analysis and optimization tools to their fullest, […]

Labeled number 2 of 2007’s most underreported tech stories, InfoWorld’s Bill Snyder highlights Sun’s comeback from the dot-com bubble burst to its “…four profitable quarters in a row plus record margins — as well as a growing list of wins, point to a company on the upswing.” he reports.
His article focuses on the company’s product […]

Sun and Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) have extended their global information technology applications management services agreement for another five years, meaning CSC will continue to provide applications development and support services for Sun’s business applications portfolios in the U.S., Europe and Asia Pacific. These markets include finance, manufacturing, messaging, enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship […]

If you want more than a mono color terminal with Solaris 11 build 79, take a look at Zhiqi Tao’s blog that shows how you can do just that in three steps for a more colorful Gnome terminal.
Tao takes readers through installing coreutils from http://www.sunfreeware.com/, adding ” alias ls=’/usr/local/bin/ls –color=auto’ ” into $HOME/.bashrc, and then […]

Did you know in about 10 minutes you can enable the new Solaris CIFS/SMB server in workgroup mode? Tim Thomas recently did just that and links readers of his blog to instructions on getting started using the CIFS service in OpenSolaris (Build 79).
To do this within the allotted time frame listed above, you will need […]

ISVs who are members of the Sun Partner Advantage Program may now have access to a new program called Sun Sales Connect that provides new resources and services for improved collaboration and coordination of sales opportunities with Sun and its extended sales community.
Services offered include:

Sales Readiness Service Bureau: streamlines creation of sales materials and message […]

Deploying blade servers in a data center is a great way to decrease the amount of space required for a given number of servers. Many Sun customers are looking at Sun’s CMT technology-based server blades as a way to consolidate legacy servers, improve performance, reduce space, lower cooling requirements and lower costs overall.
The blade servers, […]