Sun Microsystems is sponsor of Plugg on Thursday in Brussels. We have a booth where we will present Startup Essentials for new companies in the web 2.0 space and I will run some openSolaris demos. If you are attending, stop by and say hi, and it is not too late to register, just click the banner.
In his column Paul Murphy talks about Poject Crossbow in OpenSolaris. A very good article that shows he understands the importance. It is all about networking; you can now run a virtualized NIC in your zone/container, from the hardware to the application and more.
What you could do with expensive Cisco machinery is now available in a machine with opensource software and a few gbit interfaces. Imagine a Coolthreads servers with a few containers as he says to do all your networking traffic... Jonathan hinted to new cheap open source things coming in networking in November – after attacking high database licensing costs with MySQL. And remember Andy Bechtolsheim is on one of his missions with a startup in networking...
After ZFS, dtrace and self-healing another compelling reason to choose OpenSolaris, and maybe soon do to your network what FishWorks is doing to your open storage ...
Check out everything you want to know on the OpenSolaris website's project.
Another member of the BSD – family, FreeBSD, was just released in a new version 7.1. Most noticeable is that this release now features dtrace, ported from OpenSolaris. Release notes are here. Interestingly enough FreeBSD already had ZFS as a filesystem onboard and has limited support for Sparc and Sun4v (Coolthreads) systems. Together with Apple's Mac OSX we have now broader support for fundamental tecnologies developped in OpenSolaris.
A very interesting blogpost by the CTO of SmuMug - a photo sharing site - on his experience with OpenSolaris, ZFS and MySQL in production is here. Found it through an entry in the blog of Marc Hamilton.
This is a good example of a web 2.0 company using our open source tools today.
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