Tuesday October 23, 2007
Tuesday October 23, 2007 
During the 2007 OSCON event in Portland, several of Sun's open source experts sat with Ted Neward from OnOpenSource and discussed topics they felt were relevant to customers, developers and users of open source technologies.
Here are a few segments featuring Simon Phipps, Sun's Chief Open Source Officer compliments of On Open Source.
Monetization
of Open Source - Part 1 (video)
New Solaris Cluster Support for x86 Hardware
Sun has some big news today from the Solaris Cluster team.
We're announcing the first support for Solaris Cluster on non-Sun servers. For those of you who haven't been paying attention, Solaris Cluster is the high availability platform for the Solaris OS.
Companies running Solaris 10 on non-Sun x86 hardware now have the opportunity to leverage Solaris Cluster to help automatically increase their overall system availability. Information about supported configurations, as well as the FAQ's are available via the Solaris Cluster Open Hardware Program.
The Solaris Cluster Open Hardware Program ensures seamless interoperability of third party server products with Solaris Cluster.What's really cool is that both Sun and the third party server vendors test configurations and both also respond to support calls.
Sun and HP customers now have the option of running Solaris Cluster on HP ProLiant DL385 G2 and ProLiant DL585 G2 servers. For a technical explaination of what Sun engineers Vishwanth Mantha & Matt Ostberg learned during the intial implementation of Solaris Cluster on HP servers check out this blog entry.
The Solaris Cluster Oasis blog is the place to go to read more technical blog entries and case studies from the Cluster engineering team. Recent posts have covered the quorum component, Solaris Cluster Express and Solaris Cluster support in LDoms I/O domains
We're announcing the first support for Solaris Cluster on non-Sun servers. For those of you who haven't been paying attention, Solaris Cluster is the high availability platform for the Solaris OS.
Companies running Solaris 10 on non-Sun x86 hardware now have the opportunity to leverage Solaris Cluster to help automatically increase their overall system availability. Information about supported configurations, as well as the FAQ's are available via the Solaris Cluster Open Hardware Program.
The Solaris Cluster Open Hardware Program ensures seamless interoperability of third party server products with Solaris Cluster.What's really cool is that both Sun and the third party server vendors test configurations and both also respond to support calls.
Sun and HP customers now have the option of running Solaris Cluster on HP ProLiant DL385 G2 and ProLiant DL585 G2 servers. For a technical explaination of what Sun engineers Vishwanth Mantha & Matt Ostberg learned during the intial implementation of Solaris Cluster on HP servers check out this blog entry.
The Solaris Cluster Oasis blog is the place to go to read more technical blog entries and case studies from the Cluster engineering team. Recent posts have covered the quorum component, Solaris Cluster Express and Solaris Cluster support in LDoms I/O domains
Sun Announces Its First Quad-Core x64 Workstation, the Sun Ultra 24!
Today, Sun is announcing the Sun Ultra 24 Workstation, our first quad-core x64 workstation. Powered by Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Core 2 Quad and Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad-Core Processors, the new workstation quickens design cycles, accelerates decision making and gets products to market faster. It offers the broadest range of OS support, including 32- and 64-bit versions of the Solaris OS, Windows, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux.
The Sun Ultra 24 is available now via the Sun Web site and Sun Startup Essentials. It will also be available through the Try and Buy program beginning Nov. 12.
Beta customers such as Wolfram Research and Volkswagen have already been testing out the Ultra 24. Go here to see what they have to say about it.
The Sun Ultra 24 has achieved three new benchmarks, including new world-record performance results on the Mathematica benchmark. Go here to learn more.
Check out this just-posted video of Brian Healy, Sun product manager, discussing the Sun Ultra 24 and showing off some of the features. You can watch the YouTube video below, or click here.