AROUND the WORLD... Technology for Sun Partners

You want to use or to know more about Sun technologies? We propose you free Webinars to improve your knowledge and  skills!

To register, just click on one of the following links:

• Wednesday October 21st 2009: ZFS - Changing the Way You Look at Storage: ZFS is a new kind of file storage subsystem that provides simple administration, transactional semantics, end-to-end data integrity, and immense scalability. ZFS is not an incremental improvement to existing technology; it is a fundamentally new approach to data management. ZFS also combines, Disks, DRAM and Flash into one storage subsystem easily providing the best overall price performance for storage. Come learn about ZFS and its benefits. See a demo of how easy it is to use and administrate. Hear from a startup on their experience with ZFS.
  

• October 14th 2009: Storage for your database: how databases can take advantage of ZFS, SSDs and the Open Storage line of products from Sun to increase data security, scalability, and reduce the price/performance ratio.

  Note: Everybody can join. Useful for ISVs and startups using a database in their application.
  

• September 23rd 2009 :JavaFX for all your screens and Java Store for your distribution

Note: Everybody can join. Especially useful for ISVs and startups.

• September 9th 2009 : Mobile application design
  

Note : Everybody can join. Especially useful for ISVs and startups.

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.

You will receive a confirmation email with directions, agenda and other details after registration is completed.

https://events-at-sun.com/techbriefings/

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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 

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 

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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.

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