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The Sun Worldwide Education and Research Conference (WWERC) is underway in San Francisco, and with it has come news from Sun and the Global Community:

Sun and the Ministry of Education in China signed a three-year collaboration agreement to meet China’s demand for cultivating integrated circuit talent and industry development.

Open Sourcing Digital Archive Storage Technology - […]

The VMware Infrastructure product suite will now be available on Sun x64 servers with full support from Sun under an OEM agreement to extend the companies’ virtualization offerings.
VMware Infrastructure will appear as a datacenter virtualization run-time and management stack on Sun x64 systems.
“With today’s announcement we are expanding our virtualization portfolio and giving customers […]

Sun is now the owner of MySQL AB and MySQL’s complete portfolio of products and enterprise services are available as are free downloads, which can be found at Sun’s MySQL home page.
With the acquisition completed, Sun announced it is offering 7X24 year round global, enterprise-class database subscriptions and services for the entire MySQL product line. […]

The soon-to-be released Sun Blade X8450 server module is the first Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor-based blade for the Sun Blade 8000 modular system family. Expected to begin shipping next month, the new X8450 will be priced at $8,905 for entry-level models.
Features:
- Four sockets, up to 16 cores per module
- 32 DIMM memory slots, industry leading […]

Avnet Technology Solutions released an inline data de-duplication solution that combines the Sun Fire x4200 M2 server and Sun StorageTek 2530 SAS storage array with Diligent’s ProtecTIER inline data de-duplication software.
The solution is available as a pre-configured, fully integrated product that can be easily deployed into existing backup environments. According to Avnet, the data de-duplication […]

The Sun xVM Ops Center is now available as commercial software subscriptions from US$100 per managed server up to $350 a year, depending on customer selected features.
A key component of the open virtualization and management platform Sun xVM software, the Sun xVM Ops Center is an easy-to-use, highly scalable datacenter automation tool that enables customers […]

The Sun SPOT Java Development Kit is now available to customers in the European Union (EU). The kit includes 2 full Sun SPOT devices and a base station, as well as development tools, tutorials, sample code and accessories. The cost is €627.00 plus applicable tax and shipping.
Member states of the EU include Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, […]

The Network.com Application Catalog, a collection of online grid-enabled applications that are available from Network.com’s Sun Grid compute utility service, has added 14 new applications.
The newly added applications in the catalog include open source application Blender, an integrated suite of tools for modeling, rendering, animation, post-production, creation and playback of interactive 3D content.
There […]

OpenSolaris Developer Preview 1/08 edition is due for general availability release in March 2008. In the meantime, download Preview 2 and give the Indiana Project feedback by reporting bugs.
Some recent reports on this version include OpenSolaris’ Sean Harris who states:
I have just installed it on my Toshiba M5 and I am seriously considering […]

A Sun blog has put together a quick peek at some of the basic features of innotek’s VirtualBox:

It is a family of x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use.
Runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts
It has a very extensive list of supported guest OS’s (including but not limited to Windows […]