Google Said to Be Testing Sun’s Open-source Solaris
Google Inc. is experimenting with the open-source version of Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Solaris operating system as apossible prelude to running it alongside Linux in its massive global network of servers, according to sources.
With dozens of data centers housing hundreds of thousands of Intel servers supporting its flagship search engine, a move by Google toward Solaris would be a vote of confidence for Sun’s operating system.
Google considering a move to OpenSolaris?
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Sun’s OMS Video codec project is a means to an end
Sun Microsystems is setting out to create an open source, royalty-free video codec. Given the considerable head start of well-known, royalty-free video codecs like Dirac and Theora, you might ask why the world needs another. The answer, according to Sun, is the process the company will use to develop it — starting with a full-on, careful examination of the patent situation.
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Sun Microsystems Fuels Revolution for Open Storage
Leading Online Music Discovery Company OurStage Builds Enterprise Platform Capable of Rapid Expansion and Growth with OpenSolaris, Solaris ZFS and Other Advanced Open Storage Technologies from Sun.
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Interview with Scott McNealy
Sun Microsystems founder and Chairman talks about open source and the unification of Unix.
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Fujitsu Readies Eight-core Sparc64 Chip
Fujitsu is developing an eight-core version of its Sparc64 processor, which should give a performance boost to the Sparc Enterprise Servers that Fujitsu jointly develops with Sun Microsystems.
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Sun attempts to whip BEA users out from under Oracle
Sun Microsystems is challenging database partner Oracle with a middleware offer to woo customers of its newly acquired BEA Systems business.
Sun has capitalized on Oracle jacking up licensing of the BEA middleware products with an offer for its own open-source suite complete with a 12-month price lock in. The offer expires on the day before Halloween, October 30, 2008.
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Sun Fire X4600 M2 Server Is Industry’s Fastest x86 Java Server
Quad-Core AMD Opteron-based Sun Server Sets x86 SPECjbb2005 World Record, Beats HP and Dell by Up to 85%.
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Sun Close to Releasing XVM Server
Sun Microsystems has begun an early access program for its xVM Server hypervisor, a key component of its nascent virtualization product line, and intends to make a publicly downloadable version available within about a month, according to a blog post Thursday by Steve Wilson, vice president of xVM at Sun.
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Sun Microsystems Announces Sun OpenSSO Express
Sun has announced the availability of Sun OpenSSO Express, a new offering that provides enterprise support and indemnification for the technologies available in the OpenSSO project. OpenSSO is the world’s largest open source, identity management project, providing highly scalable, high-performance single sign-on, access management, federation, and secure web services capabilities. For more information and to download OpenSSO, visit: http://wiki.opensso.org.
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Sun Takes a Shine to Linux in New Web Stack
Much of the open source community relies on the popular LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) application stack, a setup that traditionally has been offered through Linux vendors.
Sun Microsystems is now joining the party with its own take on the LAMP stack — one that could pose a challenge to the LAMP offerings from Linux vendors, since it’s aimed at users of Linux as well as Sun Solaris. Eventually, it will support Windows and Mac OS X, too.
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Sun to support AMP plus Linux
Sun Microsystems is putting the “L” back into LAMP with plans to support customers running the open-source Apache, MySQL and Perl or PHP (AMP) stack on Linux.
The company said it plans paid, enterprise-level support for AMP on Linux in the fourth-quarter of 2008, in addition to supporting AMP on its preferred platform, of course, Solaris. Support of AMP on Solaris servers is due this quarter.
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MySQL: Back to Its Roots via Sun
During an on-stage discussion at OSCON, the Open Source Convention by technology publisher O’Reilly, Monty Widenius, founder of MySQL AB, and Brian Aker, the director of technology for MySQL, set the record straight.
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