Five years ahead of schedule and several percentage points above its target, Sun Microsystems has succeeded in reducing its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through the use of workplace innovation and energy efficient technologies and services. Sun SPARC Enterprise servers using CoolThreads technology are central to this achievement, which was recognized by the Environmental Protection Agency. Sun has declared its commitment to a further reduction of 20% in its GHG emissions by 2015.
Sun announced the six winners of the OpenOffice.org Community Innovation Challenge which was designed to fuel innovation and community around OpenOffice.org
The community is preparing for the imminent launch of OpenOffice.org 3.0. (Release candidate 4 is now available). The contest was part of Sun's million-dollar Open Source Community Innovation Challenge Program, a multi-year program supporting several Sun-sponsored open source communities.
"It has been a pleasure to contribute QATrack, which gives the OpenOffice.org Community the ability to track the qualification of the many releases being worked on," said Gold Medal winner Per Eriksson. "I look forward to future involvement with this truly innovative, global project.
Mike Dillon, (EVP , General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for Sun) has been blogging about the on-going litigation between Sun and NetApp.
On August 27th, 2008, the Court held a "claim construction hearing to construe the disputed
terms". After reviewing the order he says, "we were very pleased", and "the court agreed with Sun's interpretation on six of the disputed terms (two of which the court adopted with slight modification) and with NetApp on one."
Mike also states that, "the Court found each of the asserted claims in NetApp's 7,200,715 patent relating to RAID technology to be 'indefinite' ... In effect, unless NetApp appeals and this finding is reversed, the '715 patent is effectively invalidated in this case and against others in the future."
30 Sep 2008
OpenSSO Enterprise [20682] Next-Generation Access Management, Federation and Secure Web Services Solution
Sun OpenSSO Enterprise software is the first open, high-performance and unified solution for access management, federation and secure Web services capabilities to address the core single sign-on (SSO) problems that organizations face today. OpenSSO Enterprise was built in collaboration with OpenSSO, the world's largest open source, identity management project. With the addition of OpenSSO Enterprise, Sun's comprehensive identity portfolio provides easy-to-use, flexible and scalable solutions that streamline and simplify the process of managing user identities across a variety of applications.
"Sun developed the Open Source Community Innovation Awards Program to foster innovation on a global level and recognize the most interesting initiatives within open source communities worldwide," said Shrenik Mehta, Senior Director of Frontend Technologies and OpenSPARC program for Sun Microsystems. "The winners ranged from professors and students in the academia to developers working in the industry, all of whom demonstrated extraordinary creativity and collaboration leading to some outstanding innovations that will have a very real impact on the OpenSPARC community."
Fox Interactive Media (FIM), Sun Microsystems, and Greenplum have developed and deployed a new data warehouse designed to support monetization efforts for FIM's portfolio of leading Web properties. The data warehouse solution is built upon the Sun Fire x4500 storage server and Solaris, and provides complex, real-time analysis in support of FIM's advanced targeted advertising systems.
"Sun and Greenplum will be invaluable collaborators as we continue to put our data to work in new ways that will improve both the user and advertiser experience on our network of sites," said Arnie Gullov-Singh, EVP of Product, Technology and Operations for the FIM Audience Network.
On September the 10th, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) began
experiments with its Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful particle accelerator. Physicists will use the LHC to recreate the conditions just after the Big Bang, by colliding two beams of subatomic particles head-on, at very high energy. Teams of physicists from around the world will then analyze the particles created in the collision to gain a better understanding of some of the fundamental laws of nature.
The French Physics organization, IN2P3/CNRS, which is responsible for collecting data from the experiments on the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, has chosen to use Sun servers, Solaris and Sun StorageTek tape libraries to house the data that they collect.
Jonathan Schwartz was delivered a brief presentation then answered questions from financial analysts at the Bank of America 38th Annual Investment Conference. The questions asked about
how Sun sees its competitors in different market segments, if hardware competitors who are now doing vis-a-via Solaris are helping (or not). There were questions on restructuring, cost structure, gross margin, gross margin pressure, and the large investment from KKR.
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