A Tiny but Mighty engineering team in Sun's Market Development organization has been hard at work over the past year creating a fast way to install/configure/deploy Solaris 10 and the JES Suites.

 "The EZO Team" - located in Grenoble, France and the San Francisco Bay Area - is creating "EZOffering Evaluation Bundles" (EZO's for short). EZO's are bootable DVD's, created using the flash archive capability of Solaris 10, which can install configure and deploy S10 and a JES application in 1-2 hours (depends on your machine of course).

That's pretty cool and it's great for Demo's and Proof of Concepts (POCs). It does overwrite the system, but it can be installed into zones and partitions.

Another cool thing is that you can create EZO's for all kinds of things. We have an Web Infrastructure EZO, a Comms EZO. One for Identity is coming. We plan for a CAPS EZO, and lots more.  We can also incorporate OEM software in our EZO's. Cool stuff. Check it out. For starters go to http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp


Link of the day: http://www.woot.com/
Woot is a cool site - they offer "a deal a day" - and only 1 item a day. Cheap. It's usually some cool techno gadget like a Roomba or a DVR, wireless gaming controls, etc. And it's only available for one day. You can't bookmark it and go back in a week. You either buy it right now or forget it.   The "hot things" (like gaming stuff ) tends to sell out early in the day. They have a blog and  user comments back.

I must say that the content and way the site is written is pretty entertaining - even if you don't buy anything. I have been a customer and have bought a couple of things. There is also a "Wine Woot".

Check it out.