Sun is acquiring Pixio. Pixio is best known as the company who provides the operating system for the Apple iPod.

Sun’s innovative approach to reducing software cost and complexity, reaches beta program readiness.
http://www.sun.com/software/orion_beta.html

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Sun is focusing on what’s really important–not clock speeds or megahertz, but the amount of work a processor gets done. This means designing multicore processors designed to process multiple threads simultaneously with the goal of boosting application throughput up to 30 times.
For more information and whitepapers: http://www.sun.com/processors/throughput/index.html
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The N1 Provisioning Server simplifies server management and helps increase server utilization. N1 marketing strategist Brian Korns talks about how companies are using the Provisioning Server today in order to get out of “managing by sticky notes”.

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OSNews has a great interview with Andy Tucker, one of the Solaris kernel engineers.

I haven’t had much coverage of this issue, but today SCO terminated IBM’s right to use or distribute AIX, and is also claiming that most other UNIX variants are in violation of their IP rights as well. According to SCO’s Chris Sontag, “Sun is clean” – in other words, they acquired a permanent license from AT&T for System V UNIX before SCO acquired the technology.

If you have older or used Sun systems that are not covered by a Sun service agreement and you would like to ensure their reliability and support eligibility, save 30% on the Sun System Support Qualification
Service for a limited time.

This service helps you bring recommissioned Sun systems “up to spec” and qualifies them for comprehensive SunSpectrum support coverage.

For more information: http://www.sun.com/service/support/system/ssqs_promotion.html

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According to this NEWS.COM article, Sun equipment is at the center of a move by HBO and fourteen other networks to get rid of all tape-based equipment and move to a digital video-on-demand infrastructure.

This Register article has details on the upcoming UltraSPARC-3i-based “Jalapeno” workstations, the single-cpu Sun Blade 1500 and the dual-cpu Sun Blade 2500, running at 1.06Ghz. Prices are rumored to be under $5K US with 1G RAM and 80G disk.

Listed in the leader quadrant in the most recent Gartner Magic Quadrant for messaging, Sun offers a highly secure, scalable and reliable communications platform. Now a study from market researchers at the Radicati Group show how Sun (TM) ONE Communications software delivers a 2:1 advantage in TCO over IBM Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange.
Sun’s communication platform includes:
* Sun ONE Messaging Server
* Sun ONE Calendar Server
* Sun ONE Instant Messaging

To find out more, please visit: http://wwws.sun.com/software/insidesun/050503_insidetrack.html.

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Sun has unveiled the new Java logo and a new Java Portal site.

Sun lays out its OS strategy in the white paper “Sun’s Operating System Strategy”. See how Sun delivers value by integrating features such as availability, manageability, security, and network and Web services.

To read the white paper, please visit: http://wwws.sun.com/software/whitepapers/solaris9/opsys_strategy.pdf.

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