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Friday Jun 26, 2009

Weekly news recap from Chhandomay Mandal and Maijaliisa Burkert is now available.  Listen to the short segment below to get all the highlights. 

Tuesday Jun 16, 2009

While I was out on vacation last week, the OpenJDK team announced the appointment of 2 new members to the Interim Governance Board.

    * Martin Buchholz, of Google
    * Andrew Haley, of Red Hat

Mark posted the news here and the Interim Governance Board page has been updated with their bios.

Mark comments "We expect to resume work on our primary task, namely the creation of a Constitution for the OpenJDK
Community, in the next four to six weeks."

Simon & Dalibor also posted blog entries on the new members.

Friday Jun 12, 2009

Adding to numerous eco accolades, Sun was honored with the Colorado Technology Association's (CSIA) prestigious APEX CleanTech Innovation Award. This award acknowledges exceptional companies that demonstrate the success, innovation, leadership, and determination that is the core of Colorado’s technology industry. CSIA was impressed with Sun's latest next-generation datacenters like the one in Broomfield, Colorado that maximizes space utilization while minimizing operating costs. They specifically noted Broomfield's estimated  $1 million dollar savings in electricity costs and 11,000 metric tons of CO2 per year.

Here is a link to the award:http://coloradotechnology.org/Events/Apex-Awards.aspx

Listen to the short segment below as Chhandomay talks to Jeffrey McMeekin, Solaris Networking Product Manager at Sun, about the OpenSolaris Project Crossbow.  

Wednesday Jun 10, 2009

The highlights from our JavaOne and CommunityOne 2009 conferences are now available. Chhandomay and Maijaliisa have put together the short segment on JavaOne 2009 here, while the CommunityOne West 2009 segment is here. Enjoy!

Monday Jun 08, 2009

Slovak Telekom and T-Mobile Slovensko deployed Secure Data Retrieval Server (SDRS), a solution jointly developed by Sun and Coppereye, to enable the secure retention and automatic management of up to 12 months of historic communications data across its fixed and mobile telephony and Internet services.

Here is more information.

Tuesday Jun 02, 2009


We just posted this new video snippet:  http://www.mysql.com/customers/view/?id=1027