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PERFORMANCE SCALABILITY SECURITY HIGH AVAILABILITY.. HowTo and Tutorial ZFS Java Solaris VirtualBox MySQL for ISV and Partners
These worldwide forums will provide you with access to the most recent
news announcements and developments in Sun's strategy and product
roadmaps as well as the select opportunity to meet with Sun and
alliance partner thought leaders and technology experts.
Come listen to the latest updates on :
* Sun Systems Overview
* Solaris10 & Virtualization Technologies
* Sun's Open Source Strategy (OpenSolaris, MySQL, OpenSPARC)
* Java Technology
We look forward to your participation!
Space is limited for the Sun Technology Briefing, so please register by May 20th, 2008 at the below link to ensure we can reserve your space.
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Dear partners,
Solaris 8 was a great operating system and very popular. It's now time to say good bye if it comes to the release planning of your product on top of the Solaris operating system. Use the Sun Solaris EOL page to manage your own software releases.
The Solaris 8 story looks as follow
- First shipment: January 2000
- Last sale: Feb. 16, 2007
- EOL (Phase 1): March 31, 2009
- Extended End of Live: March, 31, 2012 (Service through special support contracts)
What does this mean for an end customer?
- They may use Solaris 8 as long as you want. They are not anymore able to purchase it. Normal support will end in 2009. Support through special contracts can be provided at least through 2012. The Solaris 8 Transition FAQ is a great document to read.
What does this mean for software partners and their release strategy?
- End customers haven't been been able to purchase Solaris 8 for a year
- Standard Sun support will end in a year.
- New Sun servers aren't anymore able to operate on Solaris 8
- The pool of Solaris 8 customers will shrink since there are no more systems available for new installations.
- This means that ISVs can consider to drop Solaris 8 in their support matrix for new products being shipped in future.
What does this mean for the build systems of our software partners?
- Build your software on the oldest Solaris release which you want to support. Qualify your software on younger Solaris version like 9, 10 or OpenSolaris and rely on the binary compatibility.
- Build servers for new and future products: Consider to migrate your next generation build server to Solaris 9 or 10. The official EOL process for these operating systems hasn't yet started.
- Build servers for old products and patches or escalations on Solaris 8:
- Inform your customers that the normal EOL of Solaris 8 will happen in a year and let them know that you plan to stop support as well by retiring these systems in a year.
- Plan for Extended End of service live. service contracts with Sun if your customers want to do the same.
- Consider to use the Solaris 8 container on Solaris 10. This solution has a for free evaluation license.
The NetBeans Innovators Grant is part of Sun Microsystems initiative to give US$ 1 million to open source developers across the globe to work on their favorite Sun-sponsored project.
Whether it's a bug fix, a tutorial, a localisation or a new application built on top of NetBeans - all you need to do before March the 3rd is fill in a form. Click the image for more details.
Good luck! Matt
Dear SPA and SSE partners,
consider to visit the FOSDEM 08 this week end in Brussels. The FOSDEM is the largest Europaen Open Source Conference. We are interested to engage with Software Partners in Europe.
Step by the Sun booth and ask for Stefan Schneider if you are interested in working with Sun.
- Stefan Schneider
This, in my opinion, is great news!
Toshiba drops out of HD DVD war
If you didn't know, Blu-Ray includes Java in it's specification for the various overlays, animations, effects and enabling network communication etc. - which is all pretty cool!
| February 7, 2008 Deep Dive: Blu-ray Disc Java Sun's Blu-ray Disc architect Bill Foote demonstrates some of the powerful capabilities of BDJ, the Java platform for Blu-ray Disc. |
Dear partners in the Sun Partner Advantage and the Startup Essential program,
Jonathan Schwartz just announced the aquisition of MySQL AB.
We looking forward to make MySQL applications work best with Solaris within our partner organisation.Open Source software solution stacks are a strategic focus for us to work with you.
Our upcoming code camps aound "Tomcat to glassfish migrations" is already based on MySQL.
Sign up for the German code camps in February, and the ones in Israel in March and discuss all technical aspects with us!
Dear partners,
Glenn Fawcett, one of our leading engineers is starting a performance series for throughput computing on his blog.
This is an outline of what he plans to publish:
- Overview
- Definition of Throughput computing, multi-threading, and concurrency.
- Examples of benchmarks that of show application throughput.
- Explore system parallelism
- Unix commands and parallel options
- Concurrent builds/compiles.
- Configuring the system for parallelism
- Configuring applications for parallelism
- Concurrency vs multi-threading
- Single-Threaded jobs
- Database parallelism with Oracle
- Parallel loader and datapump
- Index build parallelism
- Concurrent processing in Oracle
- Configuring Oracle for CMT server
He is discussing all the key topics partners have to deal with in order to scale up their applications.
- Stefan Schneider
I've been using NetBeans for many years now, and I always find whatever release I use, I make the fonts and icons smaller (kindof how Eclipse is out of the box).
We had a short discussion internally about making this default and to my amazement I found many people wanted BIGGER fonts :-o
Anyhoo... :-) I thought I'd publish my tweaks that I find make NetBeans even sexier to use - if I can help just one person :-)
See my post here
Matt
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The TM Forum is running introductory MTOSI/OSSJ training in Bonn next week.
We have a number of seats remaining on the course which I am happy to
provide at a discount to your colleagues or members of this group.
Please get in touch with Christophe Ebro you would like to attend.
The full details can be viewed through:
http://www.tmforum.org/UpcomingTrainingCourses/eTOMDistilledSID/33666/article.html
The first Sun Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (Sun PASIG) and Honeycomb User Group meeting takes place next week in Paris, November 14-16.
It is open to institutions and commercial organizations interested in working with Sun Microsystems, Inc. in learning and sharing practical experiences in the following:
The full agenda and conference details are here:
http://www.sun-pasig.org/november07_meeting.html
It is open to institutions and commercial organizations interested in working with Sun Microsystems, Inc. in learning and sharing practical experiences in the following:
- Comparison of high-level OAIS architectures, services-oriented architecture work, and use cases
- Sharing of best practices and software code
- Cooperation on standard, open, 'in-a-box' solutions around repository technologies
- Review of storage architectures and trends and their relation to preservation and archiving architectures and eResearch data set management
- Discussion of the uses of commercial third party and community-developed solutions
The organization is focused on sharing open computing solutions and best practices. But while sharing information about the state-of-the-art developments in standards and open source is important, this is not a standards-setting organization. It is a place to share practical experiences, successes, pain points, and potential topics for more collaboration. Sun does reserve the right to exclude direct competitors from the conference proceedings.
Any questions can be sent to Art Pasquinelli, Education Market Strategist Sun Global Edcation and Research; art.pasquinelli@sun.com.The full agenda and conference details are here:
http://www.sun-pasig.org/november07_meeting.html
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I got quite some feedback on the performance tool CD. I have been able to make the CD available online for direct download. Allow me to describe it one more time in length as I did in my blog before:
What is it about?
At Sun, for our customers and partners, the Solaris Performance ToolsCD is a well known project of the Frankfurt benchmark center since 1999. This collection of (public domain) tools on a CD enables you to analyze on optimize Sun systems. The tools are used and maintained on a daily basis during our benchmark projects. The CD covers as well many information and links to performance related literature.
This is the fourth release of the ToolsCD with the focus on Solaris 10 support for SPARC and x86/x64 based Sun systems.
The CD covers within 300 MB:
dimSTAT v8.1 - collect and analyze performance data
Dtrace Tools - Brendan Gregg's collection of Dtrace scripts
K9Toolkit - freeware tools written using the KStat library on a Solaris 9
sysperfstat - displays utilization and saturation for CPU, memory, disk and network, all on one line.
cpuinfo - displays CPU configuration (number, type, clock and strands)
meminfo - displays configuration of physical memory and swap devices or files
iobar - displays io for disk-devices in a
|cpubar|-like fashioniotop - displays
|iostat -x|in a|top|-like fashioncheckcable - prints the link up status for network interfaces
nicstat - prints statistics for the network interfaces such as KBytes/s read and write, Packets/s etc.
The Solaris Performance Tools CD is a best effort compilation which comes with a warranty disclaimer, as there is no guaranteed support for the Tools CD. Tool usage is on ones own risk. Horst Leitner is the chief editor of this CD. He's been compilng the work of the entire performance team. Please let them know if the software is helpful for you.
We can make the tools CD available to our SPA ( Sun Partner Advantage) members. Please send me an email. The CD is available as well as a 250MB gzip tar ball for online download.
- Stefan Schneider
The Frankfurt benchmark center team just released the "Solaris Performance ToolsCD 3.0".
What is it about?
At Sun, for our customers and partners, the Solaris Performance ToolsCD is a well known project of the Frankfurt benchmark center since 1999. This collection of (public domain) tools on a CD enables you to analyze on optimize Sun systems. The tools are used and maintained on a daily basis during our benchmark projects. The CD covers as well many information and links to performance related literature.
This is the fourth release of the ToolsCD with the focus on Solaris 10 support for SPARC and x86/x64 based Sun systems.
The CD covers within 300 MB:
dimSTAT v8.1 - collect and analyze performance data
Dtrace Tools - Brendan Gregg's collection of Dtrace scripts
K9Toolkit - freeware tools written using the KStat library on a Solaris 9
sysperfstat - displays utilization and saturation for CPU, memory, disk and network, all on one line.
cpuinfo - displays CPU configuration (number, type, clock and strands)
meminfo - displays configuration of physical memory and swap devices or files
iobar - displays io for disk-devices in a
|cpubar|-like fashioniotop - displays
|iostat -x|in a|top|-like fashioncheckcable - prints the link up status for network interfaces
nicstat - prints statistics for the network interfaces such as KBytes/s read and write, Packets/s etc.
The Solaris Performance Tools CD is a best effort compilation which comes with a warranty disclaimer, as there is no guaranteed support for the Tools CD. Tool usage is on ones own risk. Horst Leitner is the chief editor of this CD. He's been compilng the work of the entire performance team. Please let them know if the software is helpful for you.
We can make the tools CD available to our SPA ( Sun Partner Advantage) members. Please send me an email. The CD is available as well as a 250MB gzip tar ball for online download.
We're giving an overview about the tools on the CD and the other Solaris performance tools in our introduction to Solaris performance.
- Stefan Schneider
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