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Solaris 10 has now been shipping for three years. In addition to the initial release, which began shipping January 2005, there have been four more releases. The current release, “Solaris 10 8/07″ or “Update 4″, has been in production for 5 months.
To say that Solaris 10 has been successful would be an understatement. The […]

The European Commission awarded Sun a $141 million contract to supply servers conforming to version 3 of the Single UNIX OS Specification to the European Union institutions, bodies, and agencies participating in the open call for tenders.
Sun reported that the Framework Contract, awarded this past July, is for two years. This multi-year contract allows for […]

In a recent article, “MySQL Acquisition Edges Sun Closer to a Complete OSS Stack“, Garner states,
“the MySQL purchase immediately casts Sun in the role of a major open-source database management system vendor with heterogeneous operating system solutions. IBM, Oracle and Red Hat will likely feel some market pressure.”
They recommend that all enterprises:

Use MySQL and Sun […]

During the Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days conference held January 23 and 24, Sun announced it was open sourcing the Squawk Virtual Machine used in the Sun Small Programmable Object Technology (Sun SPOT) platform.
Yesterday, Sun announced it was releasing the rest of Sun SPOT, including its hardware architecture and software under GPL V2 license.
Along […]

The six Sun-sponsored open source communities taking part in this year’s Open Source Community Innovation Awards program, where cash rewards will be given to the most interesting initiatives, have released more details on each of their individual program rules and judging criteria.
Each of the communities has helped design its own program and will be involved […]

QLogic SANbox 9200 Fibre Channel director switches with new Fault Tolerant (FT) and 256-port HyperStack license key-enabled features will now be apart of Sun’s product sales list.
Sun customers will have the option to purchase the SANbox 9200 switch, which offers 1.6Tbs of streaming bandwidth, QLogic HyperStack technology that scales in capacity while maintaining performance, and […]

Sun will distribute the CommVault Simpana 7.0 data and information management software suite running on its x64 server and storage systems worldwide under a new collaborative agreement between Sun and CommVault, which also will have the two companies assist customers in optimizing their corporate infrastructures for 64-bit applications based on Microsoft Corp. messaging and collaboration […]

Sun will be offering three models of Crossroads Systems, Inc.’s SurePath ReadVerify Appliance (RVA) in France.
The simple plug-and-play appliance fully integrates with Sun’s platform for pro-active protection of business-critical information through monitoring, alerting, and reporting on the performance, utilization, and health of tape libraries, drives, and media.
Models of RVA being offered by Sun France include:

RV50f, […]

The Sun Modular Datacenter (Sun MD) S20 or Project Blackbox is available starting at $559,000 (US list price), announced Sun, which also released a suite of services to assist in the planning, deployment, and management of the Sun MD.
Key services include:

Assessment and Architecture Services: Sun will design a configuration for payload within Sun MD to […]

Startup companies in Canada, France, and Germany will now be able to leverage the resources within the Sun Startup Essentials program to help get  themselves up-and-running quickly and economically.
The Sun Startup Essentials program offers early-stage companies deep discounts on a range of Sun technologies and services, and the ability to subscribe to Web hosting services […]