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Release Notes
This release of Sun Clusters add support for  Oracle 11g in HA-Oracle and Oracle RAC configurations on SPARC based platforms.
It also adds support for Logical Domains in a Cluster. The Release note describes  topologies, requirements and restrictions, and installation and configuration procedures for guest domains as cluster nodes:

SPARC: LDom Guest Domains: Cluster in a […]

A Sun blogger announced that Sun Ray Software 4 Update 3 Beta is coming soon…
Some notes from the beta FAQ:
Sun Ray Software 4 Update 3 includes

Sun Ray Server Software (SRSS) […]

Sun ’s Engineering Services group will be delivering to HP a compiled version of Java ME for wireless handsets for the iPAQ. Sun will work with HP to implement specific feature set. Normally Java ME licensees like HP start with the code and are responsible for integration and producing a binary product for their platform.
“What […]

Jeff Cheeney, Storage facilitator, recently posted a ” Storage Community Annual Report“  in which he included these quick facts:

Projects

  36 approved & live
  5 approved, not live - waiting for web pages to be created
  […]

The proceeding from the 2008 OpenSolaris Developer Conference, June 25-27th, 2008, Prague are now available in a 122 page PDF document.
The slides + videos (as they are being converted and uploaded) are at:
http://www.osdevcon.org/2008/program.html

Title
Author
Page

Governing OpenSolaris: Get Involved!
Grisanzio Jim
3

“The Package Man Always Builds Twice”
From SysV Packaging To The Image Packaging System
Brandt Volker A.
5

OpenSolaris Testing
Walker Jim
9

The Cryptographic Framework […]

NetBeans has evolved considerably since it was acquired by Sun in 1999 and open-sourced in 2000. The NetBeans IDE is an open-source integrated development environment written entirely in Java using the NetBeans Platform.  The NetBeans IDE runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris. NetBeans IDE is open-source and free. NetBeans supports many languages, […]

The Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a “storage for the Internet”.  A web services interface can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. The S3 feature set includes:

Write, read, and delete objects containing from 1 byte to 5 gigabytes of data each. […]

A new  “McNealy Minute” audio podcast features Scott McNealy talking with Mike Zafirovski, President & CEO of Nortel, on
“… the future of education, and how Sun, Nortel and others are working together to eliminate the digital divide by providing better access to knowledge through network technology, open systems and sharing.”
Sun has a long history in […]

ZDnet columnist Paul Murphy looks at the cost of acquiring 1000 desk top systems in a recent blog post, “Costing Sun Ray vs Wintel“. He compares the Sun Ray thin client to a popular low-cost Dell desk top and concludes that the hardware costs are lower for the Sun Ray solution.
However, the big savings are […]

Scott McNealy. in top form, delivered a 45-talk this month to a group of entrepreneurs in the UK.
He shared some his personal experiences in staring Sun Microsystems and some insights into his management philosophy.