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[from bushwald] Sun close to releasing xVM Server hypervisor

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:10:49 -0700

[from bushwald] Sun technologist: SOAP stack a 'failure'

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:54:49 -0700

[from bushwald] Sun To Shed Up To 2,500 Jobs In Strategic Move

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:51:42 -0700

TechCrunchIT likes the pink dot strategy. Amazingly, this is the first time in years I've seen the press be anything other than snarky/"it's dead!" about Sun. And from TechCrunch-land, no less. Where's them flying pigs? ;)

[from bushwald] Sun Micro: Could CEO Schwartz Be On His Way Out?

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:51:40 -0700

[from bushwald] Shrinking Sun under the gun

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:51:59 -0700

"It's got a stock market value of $7.7bn, which means that the one-time lord of the servers is a mid-cap company."

[from bushwald] Python in NetBeans: NBPython at Ted Leung on the Air

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:51:20 -0700

"today Sun is announcing that a future version of NetBeans will provide support for Python. We are not announcing which release of NetBeans that will be because we are taking an unconventional (at least for NetBeans) path towards providing that support."

[from bushwald] Costs of Working from Home : AntoinetteO

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:51:59 -0700

Hmm, being in Texas I still wonder about the AC. In the end, working at home probably evens out (at least, if not more!) considering I don't hardly drive at all.

[from bushwald] Sun sheds light on telework savings

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:55:06 -0700

"Over the last six years the company has saved roughly $387 million in reduced office space and utility costs, because so many employees are working from flexible locations."

[from bushwald] Sun Microsystems and Intel Break Million-Messages-per Second Barrier for Thomson Reuters Market Data System: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:51:39 -0700

[from bushwald] Enterprise Unix Roundup: Sun Should Loosen Up

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:50:35 -0700

"But at the end of the day, it's alway been about what's best for Sun. But before I beat up Sun, let's be honest: Is this really any different for any other open source vendor? Novell, Canonical and Red Hat.... And why not? That's what companies do."

[from bushwald] Kuldip Oberoi's Blog - Eclipse, NetBeans, & Innovation

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:50:26 -0700

NetBeans is getting hot-n-heavy on dynamic languages: you noticed that yet?

[from bushwald] Halcyon Monitoring Solutions - Applications and Systems Management Experts

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:06:04 -0700

Looks like add-ons for the Sun IT Management world.

[from bushwald] Sun sponsors social apps platform

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:04:17 -0700

[from bushwald] [Fun summary of cloud-thought du jour]

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:03:47 -0700

"Analyst SaaS and Virtualization crews battling for control of the Cloud. Hype meet buzz--buzz meet hype."

[from bushwald] Jonathan Schwartz's free software foundation | Outside the Lines - CNET News.com

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:22:36 -0700

Nice picture of a Sun pink dots slide. Pink dots!

[from bushwald] Enterprise 2.0: Sun's Project SocialSite

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:21:39 -0700

[from bushwald] Sun bolsters SOA software with data management | InfoWorld | News | 2008-06-08 | By Paul Krill

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:04:14 -0700

[from bushwald] Picture Slideshot of Ranger Supercomputer

Sat, 31 May 2008 08:47:10 -0700

[from bushwald] A Talk and Demo of VirtualBox with Michael Cote of RedMonk

Fri, 30 May 2008 14:47:12 -0700

[from bushwald] CNET - Sun's VirtualBox hits 5 million downloads | Tech news blog - CNET News.com

Fri, 30 May 2008 06:51:19 -0700

Dave takes notice of VirtualBox due to RedMonkTV.

[from bushwald] Sun's Virtualization Strategy Evolves - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership

Tue, 27 May 2008 13:21:01 -0700

[from bushwald] VMware makes thin client moves

Tue, 27 May 2008 09:22:05 -0700

[from bushwald] Sun xVM Hypervisor Overview

Fri, 16 May 2008 13:19:52 -0700

[from bushwald] Virtualization Report | David Marshall | InfoWorld | Sun Microsystems helps ISVs with SaaS model | April 27, 2008 02:48 PM | David Marshall

Fri, 16 May 2008 13:19:51 -0700

Sun to help people host Solaris based apps?

[from bushwald] Adobe lands Sun Java rich-client CTO | Reg Developer

Fri, 16 May 2008 08:22:36 -0700

"Sun Microsystems' desktop division CTO [Hans Muller] has defected to Adobe Systems."

Adobe lands Sun Java rich-client CTO | Reg Developer

Thu, 15 May 2008 21:17:12 -0700

"Sun Microsystems' desktop division CTO [Hans Muller] has defected to Adobe Systems."

Sun Microsystems Announces Technology Preview of Open Source Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server and New Sun GlassFish Communications Server

Sun, 11 May 2008 02:18:39 -0700

Check out the OSGi stuff, bro.

Amazon Now Serving OpenSolaris on EC2

Mon, 05 May 2008 07:16:54 -0700

During our on-stage chat at Startup Camp, Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz hinted at some big news involving Amazon and its web services. Today, the company officially announced:

Sun’s OpenSolaris OS will be available on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) customers for free. It is in beta for now.
Sun will provide premium technical support for MySQL database running on Linux and Amazon EC2.

These developments are meant to address the needs and complaints of the developer community. OpenSolaris, which comes with tools such as ZFS and Dynamic Tracing (D-Trace), will be offered for free, in contrast to some Linux offerings that cost money. For instance, if you sign up for EC2 and pick RedHat, it costs $19. ZFS allows instant rollback and continual check-summing capabilities, something developers have found lacking in the EC2 platform. This OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2 beta is currently available by invitation only. Some software vendors, including GigaSpaces, Rightscale, Thoughtworks and Zmanda, are already offering their solutions via Amazon Machine.

From OStatic: As Sun Microsystems’ JavaOne conference kicks off this week, the company has announced its free new OpenSolaris open source operating system. It’s available for download . The big question with OpenSolaris is how it may compete against Linux rivals, especially since it is a fully supported operating system. OStatic, our open source blog, has the details.

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[from bushwald] Watching the ripples " Untangled

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:47:17 -0800

More on everyone's favorite OpenSolaris hoopla. Check out the trotting Stephen O'Grady as well with the water tossing.

[from bushwald] Sun Microsystems: Can it grow?

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 13:41:15 -0800

Sun makes a profit and grows, leaving analysts to tell Sun to fire more people. Yay tech-industry!