The recent Sun Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) conference has received some great coverage.
Carol Minton Morris, Communications and Media Director for the Fedora Commons, has done a very comprehensive write up of the proceedings and presentations in the Fedora Commons newsletter. As mentioned in this article, Sun will be co-sponsoring a series of joint webinars in early 2009 with the Fedora and DSpace organizations.
http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/12/03/sun-pasig-highlights-preserving-the-world-as-it-is-and-the-world-as-it-will-be/
Additionally, there is an article based on a discussion with Sun's Chris Wood and Stanford's Michael Keller:
Phase-Change Archiving: Librarians learn about future storage solutions
by Mark Rockwell, EDTECH, December 1, 2008
http://www.edtechmag.com/higher/updates/phase-change-archiving.html
Note: I will post both these links on my blog where my own write up resides: http://blogs.sun.com/pal/.