http://www.solariscentral.com A Resource for the Sun Solaris Operating System Tue, 27 May 2008 13:07:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Google is this week expected to release the long-awaited update to its Web Toolkit (GWT) adding support for Java 5 Standard Edition language features to speed development and performance of JavaScript. Read More http://www.solariscentral.com/2008/05/27/google-gears-java-5-web-toolkit/ At JavaOne in San Francisco, company touts a rich Internet application environment and a new cloud computing service. Plus, Neil Young sings Sun. Read More http://www.solariscentral.com/2008/05/23/javaone-08-sun-starts-delivering-2/ A Morgan Stanley analyst on Friday upgraded Dell Inc. and cut her rating on Sun Microsystems Inc., saying conditions in the computer server market are proving challenging for Sun but providing opportunities for Dell. Read More http://www.solariscentral.com/2008/05/23/analysts-sees-server-challenges-for-sun-opportunities-for-dell/ New Sun Fire Servers, Powered by the Solaris 10 OS and Other Industry-Standard Operating Systems, Deliver Market-Leading Performance, Compute Density and Memory in Half the Space. Read More http://www.solariscentral.com/2008/05/19/sun-unveils-new-systems-powered-by-quad-core-amd-opteron-processors/ Sun Microsystems Inc. introduced a new server virtualization product called Sun xVM for x86 servers, which will be available later this summer. The bare-metal hypervisor is based on Citrix Systems Inc.'s open source Xen technologies and Solaris. It can host several guest operating systems, including Windows and Linux. Read More http://www.solariscentral.com/2008/05/15/sun-microsystems-enters-x86-server-virtualization-arena/ New Sun Fire Servers, Powered by the Solaris 10 OS and Other Industry-Standard Operating Systems, Deliver Market-Leading Performance, Compute Density and Memory in Half the Space. Read More Sun Unveils New Systems Powered By Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors http://www.solariscentral.com/2008/05/15/sun-gives-servers-an-opteron-quad-job/ Sun Microsystems yesterday released the first beta of OpenOffice.org 3 for Windows and Mac. The open source rival to Microsoft Office now natively supports Mac OS X without the need to install the X11 module to run the suite first. The beta also includes full Vista and partial VBA support. Read More http://www.solariscentral.com/2008/05/08/openofficeorg-3-beta-lands/ New GlassFish Partner Initiative to Provide Developers Unprecedented Access to Expanding GlassFish Ecosystem of More Than 100 SIs and ISVs. Read More http://www.solariscentral.com/2008/05/08/sun-microsystems-announces-technology-preview-of-open-source-sun-glassfish-enterprise-server-and-new-sun-glassfish-communications-server/ At JavaOne in San Francisco, company touts a rich Internet application environment and a new cloud computing service. Plus, Neil Young sings Sun. Read More http://www.solariscentral.com/2008/05/08/javaone-08-sun-starts-delivering/ PHP is the latest language getting the NetBeans treatment, with a PHP version of Sun Microsystems' open-source environment. Read More http://www.solariscentral.com/2008/05/05/sun-looks-beyond-mars-for-netbeans-scripting/