Monday June 26, 2006 
- Blogroll
- Eric Boutilier's Weblog
- Jim Grisanzio
- Late Night from Second Street
- OS Technology
- Predictable
- Simon Phipps, SunMink
- Teresa Giacomini
- That's Whacked
- Jim Kelm's Blog
- New DivaBlog
- OpenSolaris
- Other Fun Stuff
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Monday June 26, 2006 Solaris 10 6/06 (aka "Update 2") has been released! New features include:
- ZFS
- Predictive Self-Healing for x64 and x86 systems
- Sun Update Connection
- IPv6 support for IPFilter
- UDP and TCP performance improvements
- PCI Express support on x86 systems
- RealPlayer
- PostgresSQL database
A huge congratulations to the team for making this happen! Many people don't realize how much time and effort it takes to release an update. People work around the clock and on weekends to pull these things off. It's a tremendous effort and something that couldn't be done without everyone working together as a team. Thank you all.
Friday June 23, 2006 Good article on page 34 in Brown University's Conduit interviewing Adam Leventhal about DTrace and BrandZ. Now if we could only get Adam to smile.... :-)
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Wednesday June 21, 2006 Nice summary of why you'll want to use ZFS over on Tech-Recipes. Already in OpenSolaris, ZFS will debut in Solaris in the 6/06 (aka "Update 2") release due out next week.
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OpenSolaris 1 Year Anniversary Press Round-up
Chris Ratcliffe (Solaris marketing), Tom Goguen (his boss), Josh Berkus (Postgres engineering), and I, had a nice dinner with some customers and the press on Monday to talk about the 1 year anniversary of OpenSolaris and some other interesting Solaris facts & figures. The round-up below:
- OpenSolaris Celebrates First Anniversary
- OpenSolaris: Success Story, or Too Soon to Say?
- Sun's 5,000 layoffs and 5 million OpenSolaris downloads
- Sun CEO will announce thousands of layoffs this Thursday
- Sun Solaris Embraces PostgreSQL
- OpenSolaris: One Year Down, Participation Up
- OpenSolaris Turns One
- Happy Birthday OpenSolaris
We didn't talk at all about the pending lay-offs. First, it's not appropriate, and second, we don't know a damn thing about them. But it looks like some reporters haven't forgotten the first rule of journalism: Open with a title that will hook the reader. Sigh.
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Friday June 16, 2006 OpenSolaris: One Year Down, Participation Up
For the record, I wasn't going to guess how many lines of codes are in OpenSolaris. Ratcliffe threw that 5 million lines number out there. Still, it's a good article. Thanks, Timothy!
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Wednesday June 14, 2006 The direction of our desktop is to get more developers developing for Solaris on Solaris. More tools. More languages. More things developers want. More things developers need.
For a sneek peek into some of the things we're working on, check out John Rice's Blog. Better yet, join the JDS community!
(You knew I was going to say that, right?)
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Paper
One year. Wow. It feels so much longer.
So much has happened over the past year. What's gone right? What's gone wrong? What blew me away? What depressed the hell out of me?
Well, what went right is that we started conversations, conversations with folks that have never talked to Sun before. We're going places we've never been. We've raised awareness. The biggest worry I had just before the launch was, what if nobody noticed or cared? Well, that certainly wasn't the case!
What went wrong? Not much actually. I credit that to our pilot program, the CAB, and all of our supporters out there. Of course, my fabulous team played a big part. They delivered -- and how.
Of course, I was hoping we would have the source code management solution up and running by now, but the transition is turning out to be harder than we thought. That's not a "gone wrong" thing, but a "hasn't happened as fast as I'd hoped" thing. Nevertheless, we're making good progress and the betas are up on our web site.
What blew me away? Winning the SIIA Codie Award for best open source solution. Our traction with universities have blown me away as well. Thirty-two universities are using OpenSolaris in their cirriculum. Five are Centers of Excellence.
What's depressed me? Well... nothing. (OK, there was this record rainfall in March that depressed the hell out of me, truth be told.)
Finally, I want to thank everyone out there that believes in OpenSolaris. We couldn't have done this alone.
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Tuesday June 13, 2006 OpenSolaris one year on: Success or failure?
If you have to ask, you haven't been participating!
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