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Tuesday
09Sep
Sun expands cross-platform virtualization collaboration with Microsoft
September 9, 2008 By David Marshall (VMblog.com)
Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced new and significant developments in its cross-platform virtualization initiatives with Microsoft Corp. Making it simple to integrate and interoperate with Sun's xVM portfolio, Sun has made key pieces of its virtualization software available in open source via the OpenxVM.org community – http://www.openxvm.org/. As part of Sun's participation in Microsoft's Server Virtualization Validation Program, the Sun xVM Server software, an open, flexible and datacenter-grade hypervisor, will be validated to work with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and prior versions.
Wednesday
03Sep
Strip mining of open source
September 3, 2008 By Richard Hillesley (ITPro)
Strip mining of open source can be interpreted as the appropriation of free software code for proprietary gain with no intention of feeding code changes back to the community. Open source software developers beware.
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Open Source Sun IBM Friday
15Aug
Sun spreads more VirtualBox love
August 15, 2008 By Austin Modine (The Register)
As Sun Microsystems gets closer to the release of its xVM server virtualization platform, it's aiming to ease developers into the fold by spreading its lightweight desktop hypervisor around to hardware vendors.
Sun earlier this week said that inked new multi-year OEM agreements for VirtualBox with three new businesses.
VirtualBox is a hypervisor weighing in at under 20MB that lets developers run multiple operating systems side-by-side so that code can be more easily tested across Windows, Linux, Mac, and OpenSolaris. Sun picked up the technology from its acquisition of the German-based innotek (lower-case i and all) in February.
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Virtualization Sun Monday
11Aug
VMWare beware: Sun’s FOSS VirtualBox hits the sweet spot for Linux
August 11, 2008 By David M. Williams (ITWire)
When it comes to virtualising Linux, VMWare has always had the edge of Microsoft’s Virtual PC which has limited video display support. Although these were the best two, there have been other lesser-known options like XENSource. Here’s Sun’s VirtualBox and why it is truly kick-ass.
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Virtualization Sun VMware Friday
27Jun
Sun sheds light on its open-source future
June 27, 2008 By Adrian Bridgwater (ZDNet UK)
Sun UK's chief open-source officer, Simon Phipps, has a high-profile role to play as the company aims to complete its move to 100 percent open software development.
Echoing the words of James Gosling, the father of the Java programming language, Phipps said that, after more than a decade of Java development, the time is right for "the next chapter" in software programming.
For Sun, this next chapter means the release of its complete software infrastructure to open source. No small task, the company said that this has been a process of evaluation and analysis heavily focused on the communities which make open-source improvements possible.
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Open Source Sun Tuesday
03Jun
Sun introduces free virtualization system, Includes Mac
June 3, 2008 By John Martellaro (The Mac Observer)
Sun Microsystems announced on Friday the formal release of Sun xVM VirtualBox, a free and open source desktop virtualization system for Mac OS X Leopard, Windows, Linux and Solaris hosts. The software will compete with VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop on the Macintosh platform. On the Mac, it supports Windows, Linux and Solaris VM clients.
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Mac Virtualization Sun Monday
26May
More rocky days ahead for Sun?
May 26, 2008 By Brandon Bailey (San Jose Mercury News / Linux Insider)
Despite recent losses, Sun is remaining committed to promoting open source, saying that doing so will increase demand for its products in the future by creating new relationships with potential customers. However, the long-term strategy is risky, Gartner said in a recent report.
"No other major IT platform vendor has committed so much of its core assets to the open source software model as Sun Microsystems," the Gartner research firm said in a report last month, calling the strategy both bold and risky.
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Sun Tuesday
13May
Project Caroline: "Sweet" project, or Sun's savior?
May 13, 2008 By James Urquhart (Blog)
A few days ago there was significant coverage of Project Caroline, Sun's new open source cloud computing platform and service offering. While seemingly taking a page directly out of Google's play book, Caroline is actually interesting for a few key differences...
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Sun Cloud Computing Thursday
08May
Sun heading into the cloud
May 8, 2008 By Dan Farber (CNET Blogs)
I managed to hook up with Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz for a video interview. We talked about Project Hydrazine, a new cloud computing initiative with services similar to what Google and Amazon.com offer. We also discussed JavaFX, Sun's competitor to Adobe AIR and Microsoft Silverlight, and Project Insight, which is designed to gather instrumented user action data via JavaFX and provide it to developers.
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Sun Cloud Computing Wednesday
07May
It's official: The future of Sun/MySQL is open...and closed
May 7, 2008 By Matt Asay (CNET Blogs)
The Sun faithful who attended the CommunityOne Conference this morning may not have noticed, but Sun and its MySQL executives were very clear about Sun's open-source strategy going forward, despite news reports that seem to have missed the nuances:
The core will always be 100 percent open source. The periphery...will not. Or might not. It depends.