Latest Release Adds Support for Intel 5500 and Six-core AMD Processors 
Oracle VM is server virtualization software that fully supports both Oracle and non-Oracle applications. The latest release is version 2.2, which features the latest Xen-based, industry-standard hypervisor, Xen 3.4, and provides performance enhancements for customers running Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, as well as six-core AMD Opteron processors.
With Web 2.0 Toolkit Olio and iGen with PostgreSQL 8.4
Sun recently integrated AMD’s six-core Opteron processors in its x64 blades and rackmount servers. With six processing units on each chip, the new processors help deliver increased performance for environments such as virtualization, database and web serving. Sun Staff Engineer Jignesh K. Shah decided to test drive the Sun Fire X4140 set up with 2 x 6-core Opterons, 36GB RAM and Web 2.0 toolkit Olio. Shah also tested the final release of PostgreSQL 8.4 (64-bits) in the download of Solaris 10 binaries on the system. See what he found.
To Debut in Mid-range Servers, Fowler Says
As Sun has been saying for over a year now, its 16-core Rock server chip is expected to hit the marketplace in the second half of 2009 with delivery coming sometime this fall. John Fowler, executive vice president of systems at Sun, said in an interview with IDG’s Agam Shah, “The processor is in various stages of debug. We’re getting close [to release].”
