CommunityOne and JavaOne conferences produced a slew of releases and announcements including:

• the official release of OpenSolaris
• support for OpenSolaris and MySQL on Amazon EC2
• GlassFish v3 Technology Preview 2
• JavaFX roadmap
• On2 Technologies adding comprehensive video capabilities to JavaFX
• Duke\'s Choice Award winners
• Blue-ray/Java technologies win music legend Neil Young and
• Sun\'s open source initiative with Liferay offers a common Web presentation platform.

Other new releases: NetBeans 6.1 and the NetBeans IDE Early Access for PHP, VirtualBox 1.6.0.

The HPC section covers an interconnect panel discussion and a webcast on HPC storage solutions.

Jonathan Schwartz reviews third quarter fiscal results as does Redmonk.

The Partners section covers ParAccel\'s dataware solution and Racemi\'s system management offering.

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Learn more about Project Hydrazine in an eWeek interview with Sun Distinguished Engineer and CTO for Software Bob Brewin.

Features of Sun's new x64 servers - Sun Fire X4140, X4240 and X4440 - are detailed. New server releases: Sun Fire X2200 M2 Server with AMD Opteron quad-core processors and Sun Blade X8450 Server Module. Sun servers also continue to break records. See what the Sun Fire X4450 and the Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 with the Sun StorageTek 2540 Array have done now.

Get your free OpenSPARC T1 1.6 and T2 1.0 downloads.

White paper on best practices for architecting a Lustre-based storage environment is available in the HPC section that also has details on the upcoming Sun HPC Consortium.

SysAdmin shows you where to find a primer on Solaris performance monitoring tools and a top ten of DTrace scripts.

Attend the new Workshop for Web Server Version 7.0 and get two tickets to Busch Gardens, Tampa, Florida!

Learn about IPTV Solutions from Sun and partners and about digital media asset management from ShareStream.

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Expanding its footprint in the X64 server space, Sun launched a blade and seven rack-mount systems with quad-core Opteron processors this week.

A new Gartner report examines the company's role in the open source market. OpenSolaris 2008.05 is reviewed and tips on running the new OS with VirtualBox and Mac OS X are included.

Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz talks about the company's hottest JavaOne announcements on CNET TV. xVM VP Steve Wilson looks at Sun\'s place in the virtualization field.

Sun Distinguished Engineer Josh Simon defines HPC needs during the HPC User Forum: Operating System Panel. Catch a video replay of Sun's Lustre Group Director Peter Bojanic's presentation during the recent LUG conference.

Partner news covers Intel\'s TBB for Solaris OS and Sun Studio; AMD\'s support of OpenSolaris, Sun xVM; Sun\'s purchase of Montalvo Systems;

Learn how Sun and AppVoyage can optimize web apps for use on mobile devices and how Sun and Aunigma Network Solutions offer a next generation, integrated, universal, virtual private network (VPN) gateway for enterprise applications.

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Sun was one of only three vendors that grew factory revenue during the first quarter of 2008 in the x86 server space. IDC and Gartner offer the rundown on Sun's rankings in the worldwide server market.

Sun xVM VirtualBox hits milestone with five million downloads. Sun Studio and NetBeans rank in EDC\'s user satisfaction survey.

Virtualization continues to be all the buzz. Read how to choose the right virtualization technology; import VMDK image files into VirtualBox; analysts take on Sun\'s virtualization approach; and Cincinnati Bell\'s choice of the Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.

Learn more about OpenSolaris 2008.05 in relation to zones and software subscriptions.

Other topics of interest:

• The new Logical Domains 1.0.3 dowload
• Sun defines open storage in a white paper
• UPerf: Open Source Performance Measurement Tool

Learn about Sun Partners Quest and Gigaspaces.

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