Freed of Executive Constraints, Jonathan Schwartz Blogs on Threats from the Competition
With his tenure in Sun’s executive suite behind him, Jonathan Schwartz exercises his new found liberty to disclose two incidents involving Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and their respective threats to sue Sun for patent infringement. Schwartz relates how Sun successfully played the countersuit card, staving off the threatened litigation.
Part of Company’s Commitment to Open Source
GlassFish figures prominently in the IT infrastructure car maker PSA, which produces Peugeot and Citroën vehicles, where it is used in support of the company’s wide-ranging set of internal and external Java applications and as part of the company’s strategic use of open source, writes Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine. PSA’s production deployment of GlassFish follows a stringent evaluation and qualification process including setting up consolidated development environments leveraging the domain and node-agent architecture of GlassFish for an overall optimized utilization of GlassFish v2.1. The administration tools (both web console and the asadmin CLI) are key features here, the blogger adds.
Harnessing Available Global Clustered Computing Resources
The Mobile Desktop Grid is a project designed to interconnect institutions that have clustered and non-clustered computers, with the objective to assist researchers, who are addressing global issues, in completing their intensive computational jobs in a shorter period of time. Basically, the MDG project aims to assist those requiring the intensive computational power of clustered systems, but are unable to purchase the technology due to financial constraints.
MySQL Co-founder and Others Believe So
An assessment of the Oracle-Sun acquisition in terms of the future for the open source database MySQL is presented by Steve Evans of CBR in the article “What now for MySQL?” He reviews the hard fight Oracle eventually won to become owner of MySQL, and offers why the EU’s decision should assuage some of the worries of the open source community.
Some FAQs Answered
The Oracle Certification page has posted FAQs on Sun certification. Paul Sorensen offers answers to some of the most pressing inquiries, such as whether Sun certification will continue to be valid; does one need to be recertified since Oracle has acquired Sun; can someone still become Sun certified, along with many others. In a separate entry, Sorensen also provides information on Oracle Database 11g certification.
Forbes Take on Oracle’s Acquisition of Sun
For a management consultant’s view of the prospects for the new Oracle/Sun entity, readers may wish to have a look at “More Than the Sum of Its Parts” by Reshmi Paul on Forbes.com. The author analyzes the Oracle-Sun acquisition from the perspective of both parties and offers suggestions designed to facilitate a smooth, fruitful integration.
Realizes Gains in ERP Processing Times, Data Load Time
ETSA Utilities, South Australia’s primary electricity distributors with 800,000 residential and business customers, faced the task of upgrading its legacy IT infrastructure that hosts the company’s ERP system while at the same time improving the processing time of ERP system jobs and increasing the availability of ERP mission-critical systems. In addition, ETSA sought to reduce payroll processing time and improve data load time. The utility found the infrastructure it was looking for in the Sun product line.
Misreading of Oracle Page Leads to Widespread Speculation 
Oracle says it has not issued an end of life for OpenSolaris, writes eWeek’s Chris Preimesberger. Speculation began when a Feb. 24 posting on the Oracle Website entitled “End of Service Life Status for OpenSolaris Operating System” appeared, which addressed general policies involving the service life of a product.
Controversial Topic Generates Abundant Comment
Readers with an appetite for controversy will find Tim Bray’s blog on HTML5 engaging and will certainly like to read the voluminous comments the piece generated. Suffice it to say, the jury is still out on HTML5, so the debate goes on.
Streamlined Product Delivery, Long-deserved Emphasis on Sun Ray, Among Other Changes
It’s safe to say that only Larry Ellison and a few of his top level Oracle executives really know “what’s next for customers at Sun,” but there is plenty of room for intelligent speculation on this score, and that is what Paul Murphy provides in his brief blog post on that topic. By and large, what Murphy sees will be welcomed by Sun customers.
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