http://www.solariscentral.com A Resource for the Sun Solaris Operating System Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:25:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sun Microsystems stockholders will get their chance to vote on Oracle’s proposed $7.4 billion acquisition when they meet July 16 at Sun’s Santa Clara, Calif., campus. The deal would end more than seven months of negotiations between Sun and several interested suitors—including Oracle, IBM and HP—vying for Sun. Oracle CEO ... http://www.solariscentral.com/2009/06/10/sun-stockholders-to-vote-on-oracle-deal-july-16/ As it comes closer to becoming reality, Oracle's purchase of Sun makes more sense, for the simple reason that there is plenty of good technology in Sun — like Java — that Oracle can put to good use. But what is Oracle going to do with its newly acquired OSes? ... http://www.solariscentral.com/2009/06/10/whats-the-future-for-opensolaris/ Sun Microsystems has delivered updates to JavaFX, its platform for rich Internet application development, and to Java Platform Standard Edition. JavaFX 1.2, launched at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, adds support for Linux and OpenSolaris. The software previously worked with the Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Mac OS ... http://www.solariscentral.com/2009/06/04/sun-updates-javafx-and-java-se/ Oracle was the first top-tier IT vendor to announce it was putting its key product - the database - on Linux. The logic was simple: Linux freed Oracle from depending on a single company for operating system - that company was Microsoft. Read More http://www.solariscentral.com/2009/06/04/oracles-ellison-gambles-with-openoffices-future/ Support deals are now the same for the open source and commercial versions of the OS; open source upgrade also adds Sparc support. Read More http://www.solariscentral.com/2009/06/04/opensolaris-is-becoming-more-like-regular-solaris/ "The monetization of Java has begun. Sun released the Java 1.6.0_14 JDK and JRE today which include a cool new garbage collector called G1. There is just one catch. Even though it is included in the distribution, the release notes state 'Although G1 is available for use in this release, ... http://www.solariscentral.com/2009/05/29/java-gets-new-garbage-collector-but-only-if-you-buy-support/ Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced a series of OpenSolaris events taking place as part of the 2009 CommunityOne conference, June 1-3, 2009, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Full details on OpenSolaris activities at CommunityOne are available at: http://www.opensolaris.com/communityone/. Read More http://www.solariscentral.com/2009/05/22/opensolaris-set-to-rock-2009-communityone-conference/ The next version of Sun's Solaris operating system could be released sometime in mid-2010. Though nothing has been publicly announced, Sun apparently has been telling its customers that this is the targeted release date for Solaris 11, codenamed Nevada. However, the company also has made it clear that the date is "not set in ... http://www.solariscentral.com/2009/05/22/solaris-11-rumored-for-mid-2010-release/ One of original authors of MySQL, Michael 'Monty' Widenius, has founded the Open Database Alliance, a consortium that aims to become the industry hub for the open source database. The move was announced Wednesday. The two founding parties of the vendor-neutral consortium are Widenius' engineering company, Monty Program, and the MySQL ... http://www.solariscentral.com/2009/05/15/group-aims-to-keep-mysql-healthy/ Despite a bevy of questions—looming competition from Oracle, takeover rumors and a weak economy—Red Hat appears to be humming along, according to Jeffries analyst Katherine Egbert. But in the long run, Red Hat will have to be subsumed into a large company—most likely IBM. Read More http://www.solariscentral.com/2009/05/15/is-an-ibm-purchase-of-red-hat-inevitable/