Sun HPC Campus Ambassador @ CESUP/UFRGS Glaucio Souza

Wanting to learn about Solaris and OpenSolaris? The Tech Outreach team at Sun has created a great new Solaris online training course entitled, Introduction to Solaris and opensolaris.org.

The course covers an introduction to opensolaris, Java Desktop System, Service Management Framework, Solaris Containers, ZFS and DTrace. I believe that with this course you can have an good idea of what Solaris can offers to improve your computing experience.

The course is located at: http://sunstudentcourses.com

Enjoy!

NetBeans 6.1 Beta Supports Tighter MySQL Integration

March 17, 2008 - Sun announced the immediate availability of NetBeans 6.1 integrated development environment (IDE) Beta. NetBeans 6.1 Beta adds features for JavaScript technology development, a key component for delivering Ajax web applications and tighter integration of MySQL database functionality.

Read the NetBeans 6.1 Beta Press Release.

Multi-year Program Expected to Payout Millions to Foster Global Community-based Innovation 

SANTA CLARA, CA December 5, 2007 Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq: JAVA), today announced a multi-year program called the Open Source Community Innovation Awards Program, which will foster innovation and recognize some of the most interesting initiatives within Sun-sponsored open source communities worldwide. To participate in the program's first year, Sun has selected six communities: GlassFish, NetBeans, OpenJDK, OpenOffice.org, OpenSolaris and OpenSPARC. Prizes are expected to total at least $1 million (USD) a year.

More information at http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-12/sunflash.20071205.1.xml 

Interesting article about ZFS. 

In a very positive review, InfoWorld states that "Explaining ZFS in one article is difficult only because it is so capable." read it.

Last saturday I gave a talk about opensolaris at TcheLinux user group 1st TcheLinux Open Source Seminar at Canoas city. It was a good oportunity to talk about the opensolaris project, since the event wasn't restricted to linux, but to any open source technology.

About 16 students showed up to my talk and even that I wasn't able to make my notebook work with the projector, at the end of the talk part of the audience stayed to watch a little demo.

 

 
I distributed about 40 Solaris student handbooks and 50 Solaris Express DVDs that day. The students was interested to learn about opensolaris and it's features and one professor was planning to install solaris in the university laboratories.

My slides will be available at our OSUG website.