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Five-part Article Series

This five-part series by Mrudul Uchil, Kamna Jain and Rick Palkovic considers the virtue of using a standardized interface language in enterprise architecture in order to liberate the application that publishes a service from having to know anything at all about the calling application. The result of this practice makes service-oriented architecture (SOA) especially useful for both enterprise and inter-enterprise architectures, the authors contend in their introduction to the series.

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Short News Items of Interest for SysAdmins

• Logical Domains (LDoms) Mobility
• ZFS Snapshots How-to Guide
• Creating an OpenSSO User Data Store Using Sun Directory Server
• Solaris Cluster 3.2, VirtualBox 2.2, 2-Node Cluster, and a Laptop
• Resources for Administering OpenSolaris
• Tour the James Bond Villain Data Center
• Performance, Scaling of Intel Xeon 5500 Platforms for DNS Operations
• Solaris Network Tuning for WebSphere Application Environment
• A Secret of SysAdmins: Transfer Keys to All Systems

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Blogger Tests IBM WebSphere Instances on Several Sun Servers

The impact of software on processor capacity is the topic Albert Leigh addresses in his blog entitled “Co-locating Multiple Instances of WebSphere on Scalable Sun Servers.” He uses the SPECjAppServer 2004 benchmark to discover just how many WAS instances are required to drive various Sun servers to full utilization.

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