Mittwoch Mai 11, 2005

Open Source on Sun Hardware
"Our current database server is a Dell PowerEdge 1600SC, which has two Intel Xeon 2.4GHz processors, 2GB of RAM, and six Ultra-160 10,000RPM drives in three mirrored containers, running Microsoft Windows Server 2003. With Progress version 9.1D running on this system, we get at best 145,000 logical reads per second, and can service no more than four local connections before the processors are completely used. This is an acceptable speed, but the system still requires several hours to run some reports. With the Sun Fire V40z server running Gentoo Linux (x86) on a 2.6.11-gentoo-r5 kernel, I saw considerably higher throughput with less load on the system. The system was able to achieve 300,000 logical reads per second while supporting 11 clients."
The full article can be found here.
( Mai 11 2005, 06:08:47 PM CEST ) Permalink

Using Tables in OpenOffice.org
"In this column, we look at these basic tasks of adding, designing and manipulating tables. In upcoming columns, we'll look at how charts and calculations can be generated with Writer tables."
The full article can be found here.
( Mai 11 2005, 04:26:28 PM CEST ) Permalink

"Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4 Release Candidates"
"Firefox 1.0.4 includes security fixes for the two security flaws that can lead to arbitrary code being executed."
The full article can be found here.
( Mai 11 2005, 04:16:49 PM CEST ) Permalink

"Sybase Embraces Solaris"
"Through this agreement, Sun and Sybase will collaborate on joint development and performance engineering activities to help customers with their migrations to cost-effective computing platforms. Sybase plans to provide support for the Solaris OS on the x64 platform in its Adaptive Server® Enterprise, Sybase IQ and Adaptive Server Anywhere® data management solutions."
The full article can be found here.
( Mai 11 2005, 04:13:49 PM CEST ) Permalink

OpenOffice.org opportunity at Northern Territory Government of Australia
"Northern Territory's department of corporate and information systems (DCIS) has issued a white paper requesting proposals for its second generation whole of government desktop outsourcing contract which includes provisions for an open source solution.
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By assessing the document exchange profile between public sector employees, agencies, and external parties, DCIS has concluded that "government document exchange is largely internal". "The vast majority of communication and collaboration is internal to government, therefore enabling NTG to consider open source solutions for office automation and collaboration software," the white paper states. This paves the way for solutions around the OpenOffice.org productivity suite to be put forward."
The full article can be found here.
( Mai 11 2005, 06:33:28 AM CEST ) Permalink

More details and opinions about the Tarantella acquisition
InformationWeek writes:
"The acquisition of Tarantella ultimately will make it easier for Sun customers to deploy desktops that run either open-source StarOffice applications or those from Microsoft, says David Friedlander, a Forrester Research senior analyst. In the short term, Tarantella's Global Secure Desktop won't deliver much incremental revenue to Sun, but longer term, it could help Sun's overall desktop strategy."

CNETAsia writes:
"With Tarantella, Sun hopes its Sun Ray product will be more useful because it will be able to run Windows, mainframe and other applications. "We'd like the volumes to be higher," Loiacono said of Sun Ray sales."

I-Newswire writes:
"Using Tarantella's technology and Solaris, more customers like Time Warner Cable, Qualcomm and the US Department of Defense will be able to implement Sun's innovative Sun Ray ultra-thin clients with full Microsoft interoperability as well as access to their Mainframe, Linux and other applications.

The acquisition will further Sun's strategy to deliver the most comprehensive set of services for Solaris; from traditional system services, to application, naming, directory, availability and now interoperability and mobility services. More than 1.3 million licenses of Solaris 10 have been distributed since January 31, 2005. It is certified to run on more than 375 non-Sun hardware platforms, runs on AMD x64, Intel Xeon and Sun's SPARC processor architectures and is priced less than either Red Hat Enterprise Linux or SuSE Linux."

Computerworld writes:
"Loiacono said Tarantella has 12,000 customers and technology that works "on virtually all applications, networks and devices," including PCs, thin clients, handsets or automobile dashboards -- "anything with a Java-enabled browser.""

See also Sun's feature story and Jonathan's blog!
( Mai 11 2005, 06:19:16 AM CEST ) Permalink