InfoWorld Names Best 2010 Technologies
InfoWorld has published what its test center staff believes are this year’s technologies of the year, and Sun’s VirtualBox 3.1 is one. The judges find Sun’s high performance, cross-platform virtualization software a compelling alternative to VMware Workstation, noting that VirtualBox definitely supersedes this competitor in scalability.
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.
Danish Hospital Reports Key is Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office
Exchanging ODF-based documents with users of Microsoft Office 2003 has proven to be not only easy but a real cost saver for the Danish Arhus University Hospital in Risskov. An OpenOffice.org facility for the past five years, the hospital has experienced the improvements the open source software suite has made in the exchange of ODF documents with Microsoft’s proprietary alternative and reported in a recent article that the free Sun ODF plugin has solved any issues.
Technical Paper Outlines Procedures 
Sun Systems engineers describe deploying the MySQL 5.1 RDBMS on a Sun Fire server running Microsoft Windows 2003 Server in a BigAdmin article entitled “MySQL 5.1 Database Deployment over CIFS on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System”. In the presented scenario, a volume of a Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System is mounted using CIFS as a repository for database files. This is a technical paper and meant for those with an understanding of Microsoft Windows and MySQL.
Sun Vice President of xVM Steve Wilson says Sun will soon be introducing software and hardware to create “virtual” Windows and Linux personal computers that can be accessed via desktop machines, laptops and cell phones.
In an interview with Reuters, Wilson explained that companies will be able to host the PCs on server computers at data centers using Sun software, which will allow access via a $200 desktop hardware package that includes a monitor - all offered by Sun.
“It gives you instant access anywhere,” Wilson said. “We are going to announce (it) soon.”
