President and COO of Sun Federal Bill Vass' Weblog

Friday Aug 15, 2008

All You Mac Users Out There, Welcome to Sun!

It's nice to see that as more and more people start using Macs, the Apple users and developers are seeing more and more of Sun's technology.

Not only are OpenOffice and NeoOffice two of the most popular office productivity software products on the Macs, now Sun's new VirtualBox program brings Windows, Linux, and Solaris to the Mac. And did I mention that all Mac users can download these products for FREE!

Check out this Macworld article You can even see from the video, that the author Rob Griffiths runs Solaris on his Mac... and demos the video! And look at this Slashdot posting filled with tons of accolades...

In addition, starting with Leopard version on the Mac OS, ZFS and DTrace are both included in Mac's operating system. You just gotta love how open source drives adoption.

Soooo...All you Mac users out there, welcome to Sun

Posted at 09:23AM Aug 15, 2008 by BVass in General | Comments[1] | Permalink

Wednesday Mar 05, 2008

Flask architecture for flexible mandatory access control to OpenSolaris has been submitted to and approved by the OpenSolaris security community

I just received the best news from Stephen Smalley at the National Security Agency (NSA). A project to add the Flask architecture for flexible mandatory access control to OpenSolaris has been submitted to and approved by the OpenSolaris security community. This represents another milestone in bringing flexible MAC to mainstream operating systems and will broaden the set of platforms that support this technology. The project is a joint initiative of the NSA and Sun.

This is sooo great, we are excited about working with the NSA to add the Flask architecture to Solaris. We believe this will augment Solaris' already strong adoption and security profile. We look forward to working closely with the NSA and the Flask community of developers to extend this advanced security technology into Open Solaris.

Sun's John Weeks and Rose Mucci deserve much of the credit for working with the great engineers on the Solaris security team and the NSA to make this project move forward. My special thanks to both of them for all their hard work to make this happen.

The original project proposal and feedback can be found on the opensolaris-security-discuss mailing list. The project now has a page and separate discussion list set up.

Posted at 12:47PM Mar 05, 2008 by BVass in General | Permalink