Sun’s OpenOffice.org, Solaris 10 Considered Significant
A special eWEEK report names the products, applications, and technologies of the last decade that have changed the way people work, play, and live. Limiting the list to 25 of the most significant technologies and products, eWeek found OpenOffice.org and the Solaris 10 Operating System to be two important solutions making a mark in the last 10 years.
To Help Protect OSes Against Certain Types of Attacks
The National Security Agency (NSA) is working with Sun, Apple and Red Hat “to develop secure baselines for their products,” commented Richard Schaeffer, the NSA’s information assurance director, on Nov. 17 at a hearing before the U.S. Senate’s Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security.
Offers Benefits of Cloud Computing to the School Desktop
A new cloud-based Desktop as a Service is being offered for educational institutions by Sun and Ashbourne Technology Group. The multi-platform service provides a virtual desktop experience for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris to most client devices, including Sun Ray thin clients and other platforms with Java-based browsers.
Maintenance Release Offers Many Performance, Stability Improvements
VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also open source. There are a number of performance and stability improvements in the newly released VirtualBox 3.0.8. Download it free.
