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Presenters Have Until March 14 to Submit Proposals

March 14 is the deadline for those wanting to submit papers for the JavaOne 2010 conference. This year’s conference will be co-located with Oracle Develop during the week of Oracle OpenWorld. Set for Sept. 19-23 in San Francisco, JavaOne 2010 will be offering the following tracks, and proposals to speak are being accepted under them: Core Java Platform; Java SE and Desktop Java; Java EE and Java for Enterprise Applications; JavaFX and Rich User Experience; Java ME and Mobile; Java for Devices, Card, and TV; and The Java Frontier. 

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Partners to Resell Sun Oracle Database Machines, Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Servers

Oracle announced a new partner program allowing Oracle and Sun channel partners to sell the Sun Oracle Database Machine and Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server. Revealed during the Oracle Open World conference, this program requires partners to belong to the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) and hold a valid full use distribution agreement to resell the Exadata products, the company said.

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Short Items of Interest on Sun Systems Performance

• Benchmarks from Oracle OpenWorld
• Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Achieves World Record SPECweb2005
• CP2K Ab-initio Dynamics Applications Software and Sun Blades
• ProMAX Performance on Sun Blade 6048/X6275 Cluster
• Highest Eight and Four-processor Results on the Two-tier SAP SD-Parallel
• Sun Storage 6180 Over 70% Better Price/Performance Than IBM

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Oracle Launches Exadata Partner Program

Oracle OpenWorld 2009 brought Sun executives and technologies to the center stage during the five-day event held in San Francisco’s Moscone Center. Sun co-founder Scott McNealy made the final keynote on day one of the conference to a packed Hall D Moscone North. He reflected on the top 10 innovations from Sun, and the technologies that will get even more funding from Oracle following the acquisition. Following McNealy on stage, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said combining Oracle and Sun’s technology would let Oracle “do things neither company would be able to do by themselves.”

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