Archive for March, 2008
Sun’s 256-thread African journey begins next month
On April 9, Sun plans to unveil a line of systems known internally as the Maramba boxes. The 1U and 2U servers will run on the UltraSPARC T2+ processor - aka Victoria Falls.
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Sun hires Python pros in dynamic languages push
Sun Microsystems has hired high-profile Python programmers Ted Leung and Frank Wierzbicki, stepping up its bet on open source and scripting languages.
Sun has already hired other open-source luminaries such as Debian Linux founder Ian Murdock, in an effort to capitalize on open source and diversify beyond its roots in Java and Solaris.
Sun hires two more open source gurus
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Sun does Google’s dirty work on MySQL
Sun Microsystems will fine tune MySQL for some big-name customers unwilling to get their hands dirty supporting the open source database themselves.
Google, a MySQL user, will be among those benefiting from Sun’s engineering expertise and resourcing to help improve the database’s scalability and performance of its storage engine in multi-core and multi-threaded environments.
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Sun Explains New Strategy for Education
A “Second Life”-type approach from Sun brings communities into the “Education 3.0″ classroom.
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Sun open-sources digital archiving
Sun Microsystems continues to run amok in the open-source world, open-sourcing software in every direction. Today, it is in the direction of digital-archiving software, which has been used to capture and maintain “business images, records, consumer- and corporate-created digital content, e-science work, and high-performance computing (HPC) data for hundreds of years.”
How does Sun expect to make money? In this case, it’s the hardware, which makes a lot of sense.
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