Archive for November, 2007
Solaris and Dell
Dell and Sun Microsystems have signed an OEM agreement for Dell to make the Solaris Operating System (OS) and Solaris support services available directly to customers for select Dell PowerEdge servers.
Dell to carry Solaris 10 on PowerEdge servers
Love Fest at Oracle Confab: Sun and Dell
Solaris and Dell… and Virtualization, Of Course
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Dell to carry Solaris 10 on PowerEdge servers
Sun Microsystems and Dell announced Wednesday a distribution agreement under which Dell will distribute Sun’s Solaris 10 operating system on Dell PowerEdge servers.
Under the multiyear agreement, Dell also will provide Solaris support services to its PowerEdge customers. The agreement brings two rivals together, with Dell gaining a relationship to better serve its customers already running Solaris on their systems and Sun a potentially larger market base for Solaris.
Four years and 1000 promises land Solaris at Dell
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Open source Java - one year later
A year ago this week Sun finally bowed to pressure and agreed to make Java a free, open source project. It was an odd move given Sun’s strong resistance to making Java open source for a more than a decade.
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Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz Previews Sun xVM
During his keynote address at Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: Java) President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz will unveil Sun xVM, the company’s open, comprehensive virtualization and management platform. The introduction of Sun xVM marks a new era in IT productivity, building on years of virtualization innovations in the Java platform, in the free and open source Solaris Operating System (OS), and in the commodity UltraSparc microprocessor. During his keynote, Schwartz will also highlight Sun’s cutting-edge Eco technologies that help increase IT energy efficiency and drive user cost savings.
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Sun sends Netra blades through 10GE wringer
Sun is dishing out new ACTA blade server gear for telcos sporting 10 Gigabit Ethernet — with all the copious prices usually found for equipment holding the AdvancedTCA telecom industry standards.
The new portfolio, now standardized on Sun’s Solaris operating system, will let telcos connect multi-core and multithreaded ATCA equipment directly into 10Gb/s networks.
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