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Sun's Solaris™ 10 OS has the largest installed base of any other commercial UNIX® or Linux distribution,
has more applications available than any other operating system and is supported on over 1,000 SPARC® and x64/x86 systems.
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“Sun Microsystems [announced ] that customer adoption rates for various technologies with OpenSolaris
communities are rising significantly, with hundreds of new Sun enterprise, Web 2.0 and other customers joining the 150,000+ strong community.
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eBay reduces running costs and ensures high availability – with Sun servers, storage and software.
“Sun has an absolutely amazing team working for eBay,” comments Heather Peck, eBay’s infrastructure manager. “They listen to us, anticipate our needs and make sure that they’v e got the resources and technology to meet those needs.”
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Sun Microsystems announced a deal with ERP
software company Stesud to deploy the MySQL Enterprise™ and the GlassFish™ application server.
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“... the FAA has upgraded its legacy internal business systems
to a new open-systems server and storage infrastructure supplied by Sun Microsystems...”
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IT.com has chosen Sun
servers and storage to help scale-up its groundbreaking email and document search & discovery solution – “Our product, simply would be impossible without Sun.”
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Nacun.com, a Chinese social networking genealogy Web site,
migrated to the Solaris 10 OS and Sun servers – increasing throughput by a factor of 10, cutting costs and overcoming availability and development issues. “Since we've migrated from Linux to Solaris 10 and have taken advantage of Containers, ZFS, and DTrace, Nacun.com has been able to greatly improve the efficiency of its research and development efforts, test cycles, system deployment, and maintenance,” comments Tony Lee, CEO, Nacun.com.
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“... companies across In dia, China, eastern Europe, and South and Central America
are predominantly using open source software to create enormous wealth.” “Gartner... projects that by 2012, 90% of the world’s companies will be using open source software.”
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In an interview with Marketwatch, Peter Ryan, EVP of Sun's Global Sales and Services,
discussed Sun's strong growth in Brazil, Russia, India, China and other regions, and why Sun's strategy is attractive to emerging economies.
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Virtualisation Review commented:
“Sun is definitely a company to watch here. It has an end-to-end solution offering something that not even VMware, Microsoft, and Citrix can: physical servers.”
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The Wall Street Journal reported on Sun 's new virtualisation product - Sun xVM Server software -
which “will be available in a free version that is open-sourced – allowing customers to view and modify the program’s code – as well as a paid version that comes with technical support and training.”
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“Sun's open source-based xVM Server 1.0 marks the company's foray
into providing hypervisors designed for datacenters. It also works with Windows, Solaris, Unix and Linux and runs on both SPARC and x86 platforms.”
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eWeek comments on Sun's growth in the storage market
“... Sun moved ahead of such international competitors as Hitachi Data Systems and Fujitsu and into fifth place on the world chart with $494 million in sales, or 7% of the market.”
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Sun “... grew its external disk storage market share faster than any other vendor
in the second quarter of the year according to Gartner. IDC's quarterly disk market tracker also shows Sun way out in front.”
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“... Sun plans to release new storage hardware and software
that takes aim at a part of the storage market dominated by NetApp and EMC.”
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The Solaris 10 OS
has set over 200 world records – including price/performance (149 on the UltraSPARC® platform and 58 on x64/x86 platforms).
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Reviewer, Tory Skyers, considered the storage features of OpenSolaris
and its value to small to mid-sized businesses – “I like the power and flexibility OpenSolaris offers; I also like the security model it is built on...”
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“[Sun xVM ] VirtualBox is now everywhere, but it's particularly strong in the Linux community
where it provides a relatively full-featured alternative to the free VMware Server or commercial VMware Workstation offerings.”
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A recent review of the Sun Fire X4450 server noted:
“The benchmark results are the best we have seen in high end servers...”
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In a Computerworld blog, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reviewed OpenOffice.org™ 3 software and reported:
“When taken as a whole, I see OpenOffice 3 as being perhaps the most significant open-source application release of 2008.”
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The 2009 Guinness Book edition will list Sun Menlo Park, California,
as having the world's largest data warehouse. Twice the size of the previous largest known commercial data warehouse, Sun's warehouse consumes 91% less energy than conventional solutions.
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