O’Reilly and Associates recently announced their intentions to release a number of their in-print titles under a “Founder’s Copyright”, where works are released under a Creative Commons Attribution license 14 (or 28) years after their publication date, along with a number of their out-of-print titles being released as soon as author permission is obtained.

(submitted by John Barton)

Free – StarOffice[tm] 6.0 Office Suite Evaluation & Migration Kit.
Contains everything you need to evaluate the StarOffice software and
determine how to migrate your enterprise to this cost-saving
alternative! An evaluation and migration kit is also available for
Asian markets where StarSuite[tm] 6.0 software is sold.

http://www.sun.com/staroffice/migration/index.html
http://www.sun.com/starsuite/migration/index.html

(submitted by John Barton)

Sun released Solaris(tm) 9 Operating System x86 Platform Edition in
January as part of its x86 strategy. Based on the same source code as
the SPARC(R) platform edition, Solaris 9 for x86 is a complete software
platform with 300 new, built-in features. Among these are Solaris
Volume Manager for managing disk storage systems, Solaris 9 Resource
Manager for application resource control and containment, and security
enhancements that include Solaris Secure Shell for secure remote
management as well as built-in firewall protection.

To learn more, please visit:
http://wwws.sun.com/software/cover/2003-0415/index.html

Please join two Chief Architects from Sun Professional Services — Hal
Stern, Vice President, and Jim Baty, Distinguished Engineer — this
Wednesday as they discuss the future of N1 and its promises of 80%
utilization and provisioning on the fly.

Wed, April 16, 2003, 9-10am PT/12-1pm ET

For more information, please visit:
http://www.sun.com/nettalk/index.html

(submitted by John Barton)

Sun has finally released the UltraSPARC-3i based SunFire V210 and SunFire V240 rackmount servers

Hear Sun’s latest strategies to reduce cost and complexity for
customers and partners. Join Sun Chief Researcher John Gage as he
interviews Scott McNealy and other Sun executives and technologists.
Participate in live chat with Sun EVPs. April 8, 2003 – 10:00 am PDT.

For more information and to sign up for an email reminder, visit: http://www.sun.com/bignews19/index.html

(Posted by John Barton)

Solaris 9 is now available for the x86 platform. The Solaris 9 OS, x86 Platform Edition includes a wide array of applications and features for deploying scalable, available, and secure solutions.

Solaris 9 OS delivers more than 300 new features and open source applications, provides built-in security features, and offers Linux compatibility at both source and binary levels.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.sun.com/solaris/x86promo/index.html

(submitted by John Barton)

http://www.e-business.com/products/netra.htm has specs and pricing on the SunFire V210 and V240, upcoming UltraSPARC-IIIi based systems. Perhaps this means they’ll be formally announced soon, if resellers already have pricing information.