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A Few More Details on Where the Three Are Heading

In no uncertain terms, the Director of Solaris product management at Oracle Dan Roberts says OpenSolaris will continue as an open source entity and Oracle will actively support and participate in the community. There are some questions regarding which direction Oracle will take in open sourcing some of OpenSolaris’ technologies and the level of support that will be offered, but generally speaking, all is well, affirms Roberts.

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Concise Reference on Setting Up and Administering ZFS

As the title reads, this book is an essentials guide to Solaris 10 ZFS. Numbering only 144 pages, the slim paperback is designed to show its readers how to deploy and manage ZFS file systems. It is particularly useful for those users who are new to Solaris or are using ZFS for the first time. It is easy to get ZFS up and running on a home system or business IT infrastructure by following the simple instructions in this book.

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Oracle Exec Also Discusses Smart Scan to Help Solve Bottleneck Issues

Christopher Chelliah, general manager for Exadata and Appliance solutions, Oracle Asia Pacific, said the flash storage integration within the second iteration of Oracle’s Exadata Database Machine eliminates the need to source data from storage disks and cuts query processing time significantly. “Coupled with the hybrid columnar compression feature which groups data by column before compression, the flash storage can fit up to 50 terabytes of data,” said Chelliah, as reported by IDG.

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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.

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To Educate About the Importance of ODF and Open Standards

Document Freedom Day 2010 is March 31st and there will be events all over the world. Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for document liberation. It will be a day of grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of Open Document Formats (ODF) and Open Standards in general. Learn more about DFD and how to get involved by visiting the DFD\’s main page.

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An Event Forwarding Solution From Ops Center to Oracle Enteprise Manager

The Oracle Management Connector for Ops Center enables users to view event information in the Oracle Enterprise Manager console. With the Connector, Ops Center notifications are displayed as Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control alerts. Benefits of such an integration for system administrators include faster resolution times, more immediate root cause analysis, and faster communication flow between IT departments.

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First Desktop to Web to Mobile Solution Based on ODF Standard

A rebranding is in store for StarOffice and StarSuite, and a web-based office suite is in the works that will be tightly integrated with the OpenOffice.org desktop version, allowing users to access their documents from basically any browser and from any device. This information is from Michael Bemmer, former Sun staffer and now head of the new Office Global Business Unit at Oracle, who presents a brief summary of the future of OpenOffice.org and office productivity at Oracle, along with how the Sun Oracle merger will benefit customers and users.

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Thread Safety Policy Helps Simplify Design of Applications

A java.net article discusses design principles to follow when the objective is to build an efficient, thread-safe application. In the article “Rethinking Multi-Threaded Design Principles,” Dibyendu Roy asserts that careful design and adherence to a well thought out underlying policy is essential for productive thread-based systems.

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Oracle Community Offers a Couple of Suggestions for Newcomers

Former Sun employees now working for Oracle may be interested in the personalized online training their new employer does offer. In a question posed on Oracle Mix, an inquisitive newcomer gets a couple of hints from Oracle veterans.

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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.

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