Gains Accelerated Performance, Better CPU Utilization, Lower Operating Costs
Mind Candy made its Moshi Monsters upgrade happen with Sun Technology: Sun Startup Essentials, Sun Fire X4170 and X4270 servers, Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System and Java SE6. Mind Candy achieved the upgrade with CPU utilization rates cut from 70 to 15 percent; Tomcat Web application server speed doubled; and the implementation of a cost-effective, eco-responsible infrastructure.
Up to 15 Years of Support for EOL Java SE Versions
Java for Business is a support offering that provides up to 15 years support for versions of Java SE that have reached their End of Life (EOL) status and access to releases of software that are unavailable anywhere else. Created for customers who wished to continue using J2SE 1.4.2 after it had reached EOL status, Java for Business allows customers to continue to receive security updates and minor feature updates for up to 10 years with Standard or Premium support levels, and up to 15 years with a Premium Plus support plan.
Details on How the Java SE 6 Update 14 Feature Works
An entry in Dr. Dobb’s Journal, “G1: Java’s Garbage First Garbage Collector,” discusses Garbage First (G1), a much-anticipated feature newly introduced with the release of Java SE 6 Update 14. G1 works to reclaim areas of memory within an application that will never be accessed again. According to the article, G1 is a low-pause, low-latency, sometimes soft real-time collector that allows users to set max pause time goals and collection intervals through suggestions on the Java VM command line.
Get Garbage-First Garbage Collector, Performance and Security Enhancements
Java SE 6 Update 15 is available with revisions to both the Java SE development kit (JDK) and Runtime Environments (JRE). It is Windows 7 support-ready and includes support for Internet Explorer 8, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Vista SP2. New features include the Garbage-First (G1) garbage collector, plus performance and security enhancements.
Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) for Business is a product subscription designed to provide faster access to technology updates and critical fixes, a longer roadmap for support and offer enterprise deployment features. A new pricing model for the Java SE for Business offering simplifies the plan by using a per-employee model to gauge the level of support required by enterprises or solution developers. This model is flexible for large and small customers, and pricing can be adjusted as needed for heavy or light Java users.
The newly available Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) for Business is designed for customers looking for longer, more predictable support for the platform - up to 15 years per family.
Java SE for Business offers faster access to mission critical reliability and security fixes through Java SE for Business Revisions. Customers will be able to get specific fixes that they request from Sun faster than ever before. In addition, Sun plans additional features for Java SE for Business including a new IT managed Java auto-update and integration with Sun xVM Ops Center. These features will enable IT managers to have greater visibility into Java software applications across their company, as well as increase their ability to manage these deployments.
Java SE for Business is available via a company wide license with three levels of support - standard, premium and premium plus and is priced per employee per year. It is available for Java SE version families 1.4, 5.0 and 6 and for the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS), Windows and Red Hat Linux. Customers running on Solaris OS can receive access to Java SE for Business for Solaris at no additional cost.
This new release allows users to register JDK installations through Sun Connection so installed JDK instances can be tracked online along with other Sun software and hardware assets through the Sun Inventory Channel.
