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Software Freedom Day is right around the corner. It is a great opportunity for the entire open source community! Software Freedom Day (SFD) is September 19th. Software Freedom Day is a global celebration and education of why transparent and sustainable technologies are now more important than ever. With over 200 teams in 60 countries participating, it is a fantastic event to get your schools and communities involved in. Go along to your local event or start your own event and meet a wide range of people, all working together to help ensure our freedoms are maintained by the technologies of tomorrow.

OpenSolaris 2009.06 released at CommunityOne 2009 in San Francisco on June 1st - the momentum is continuing in many places.  The latest one being in India - OpenSolaris was released in the July issue of CHIP Magazine where the readership is over 120k.  Please take a look at the following link where my co-worker Abhishek Kumar has a link to the pdf of the booklet.  We are very excited about this opportunity!!  We will continue to have OpenSolaris featured in CHIP magazine - please stay tuned. 

 Enjoy!

CommunityOne is finally here!!  Very exciting news is going to be taking place at CommunityOne today for OpenSolaris.  The keynote has started-Dave Douglas is on with Lew Tucker talking on Cloud.  John Fowler, Stephen Hahn, Greg Lavendar and Mike Shapiro will be taking the stage next.  John will be talking about the next release of OpenSolaris 2009.06 - Since I have been intimately involved with all the OpenSolaris activity it is very exciting to watch this unfold.  If you are in San Francisco -you must stop by CommunityOne!  The OpenSolaris Install Lounge will be on fire today - Come check it out,  we are at Booth #322. Come install OpenSolaris, play Rockband 2, check out Apps of Steel Winners, or play the cool Tremulous Toshiba game Aliens vs Humans...Oh and you can enter to win Rockband 2 and an OpenSolaris Toshiba Laptop.  Stay tuned to my blog as I will be taking plenty of video and posting to my blog today and throughout the week! 

This morning OpenSolaris Marketing and Engineering hosted the OpenSolaris Live Chat - If you didn't get a chance to log on to the OpenSolaris Chat I have included the transcript in my blog for those of you who are interested in reading the transcript. I would like to thank the 125,000 unique visitors that came to the chat- some great questions!  A special thanks to Stephen Hahn, David Comay, Jim Walker, Glynn Foster, Bart Smaalders, Danek Duvall, David Miner, Joost Pronk and Sunay Tripathi. Check it out here

Sorry for those who came here earlier and experienced problems reading the script live...having bad blog day issues!

There are many cool things taking place here at Sun right now, but one cool event that is taking place right before CommmunityOne is the Open HA Cluster Summit! The Summit is taking place on May 31st, 2009 in San Francsico - So if you are traveling to San Francisco for CommunityOne, You must come to the Summit! There will be great speakers and very cool give-aways. So come on register for the Open HA Cluster Summit today!

OpenSolaris will be featured in many activities at CommunityOne West in San Francisco June 1-3, 2009. Come join OpenSolaris at our demo pod area, OpenSolaris Install Lounge, join a session or jump into the Cash Car and win prizes!!  You also won't want to miss out on the Party Monday night from 7-9 pm.. Good drink, Food, Music and more Prizes!!

If you are a student, developer, system administrator, or someone who just likes to develop packages here's your chance to win a Toshiba OpenSolaris Laptop by putting your creativity and talent to work by participating in the Apps of Steel Contest. The challenge started on April 8, 2009 and ends on May 8, 2009. Your package will also be showcased at the OpenSolaris Install Lounge at CommunityOne West, on June 1-3rd, 2009.

If you are a student, developer, system administrator, or someone who just likes to develop packages here's your chance to win a Toshiba OpenSolaris Laptop by putting your creativity and talent to work by participating in the Apps of Steel Contest. The challenge started on April 8, 2009 and ends on May 8, 2009. Your package will also be showcased at the OpenSolaris Install Lounge at CommunityOne West, on June 1-3rd, 2009.

The OpenSolaris Storage Summit 2009 is approaching quickly. It should be a great event with some excellent content, great speakers and a very cool contest so...Register today for the Summit!!

Intel Dave does it again!!!  He goes into great detail on how OpenSolaris can sing on the Nehalem Processor. Check it out!

OpenSolaris 2008.11 launched today! There are many cool features in this release such as Time Slider -slide time and get access to instant roll back and all your snapshots through a new desktop interface New global repository for anyone to showcase their OpenSolaris innovations World record web stack performance at 1/12 the price of competitive HW/SW solutions OpenSolaris is the first OS optimized for Intel Nehalem (Core micro architecture) systems and the new partnership with Toshiba to jointly deliver a set of pre-configured OpenSolaris laptops.

There is also a very cool article that is on Dr. Dobbs today as well! Download OpenSolaris 2008.11

The stage was set and ready to rock! The top 5 bands began the competition. Below is the first band to compete at the challenge. They sang Carry on my wayward son by Kansas. Stay tuned to see other videos of bands and who won!

Here we are warming up with the OpenSolaris band before they go on stage!It is almost time to go on stage, so stay tuned to see the top 5 bands compete!

Hey Rockstars!! I am here at the last day of the CEC2008 conference. We are sponsoring an OpenSolaris Rockband Challenge tonight. It will be such a great time. We had 25 bands sign up and only the top 5 will be performing tonight to win the Rockstar Status! We will be also raffling off a PS3 and the Rockband 2 game! Check out a little backstage and set-up time. Stay tuned for more updates throughout the night. Rock on!

I am live at the CEC show today, lots of things going on.  Looking forward to hear John Fowler talk on Sun Storage 7000 family (AKA Amber Road). It will be exciting today!! Check out what is happening. I will keep you posted as the day progresses. Great to see the integrated story between systems and software.

The Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems family has radically simplified management, costs up to 75% less, and requires minimal training to configure and administer. These systems include the industry's simplest and most comprehensive analytics environment and innovative new tools to help isolate and resolve issues to minimize impact to your business. The Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems family delivers breakthrough performance while radically simplifying the way you manage your storage with unprecedented speed, scale, and cost savings.  The Sun Storage 7000 series is based on cost efficient industry standard components and a robust open source software stack built from the tried and tested OpenSolarisTM OS, and supported by a passionate, global community of developers and ISVs."

For more info: www.sun.com/launch