Good News from Sun Microsystems


Greetings and Happy New Year! Enjoy your January issue of the "Good News for EDS from Sun" newsletter.

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Sun and Southeastern Asset Management announced an agreement to add two new independent members to Sun's Board of Directors. "We fully support Sun's CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, and his leadership team in their efforts to continue driving near-term efficiencies and long-term growth," says Jason E. Dunn, vice president and principal at Southeastern Asset Management, Inc.

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The Flexilis provides security solutions that protect mobile devices from a range of threats, including viruses, spam, and hackers. When they needed a reliable, scalable IT infrastructure, they chose Sun servers, MySQL™ database, and the Sun Startup Essentials™ program. "Open-source software like MySQL and programs like Sun Startup Essentials make it possible for startups like Flexilis to compete with large corporations," comments John Hering, founder and chief executive officer of Flexilis.

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When Gracenote - a leader in enabling music services for mobile handsets - needed to implement a reliable server solution that could scale to handle 17 billion transactions per month, they turned to Sun's Try and Buy program to test Sun solutions, free-of-charge for 60 days. Following the trial, Gracenote installed a range of Sun Fire™ servers and the Sun Blade™ 8000 P Modular System. According to Matthew Leeds, vice president of operations at Gracenote, "We know that we can rely on the stability and performance of our Sun products."

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EDS Note: SaaS vendors choosing Sun
Conemis AG cites Sun as a "huge advantage." See how your customers can capitalize on SaaS solutions standardized on Sun infrastructure.


Germany-based Conemis AG delivers software-as-a-service (SaaS) infrastructures for software vendors and enterprises, and they chose to standardize their SaaS infrastructure on Sun software solutions and servers. "Sun solutions are among the best technologies in the world. They are dependable, and the support is amazing," says Charbel Noujeim, managing director at Conemis.

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Originally established by filmmaker trustee Steven Spielberg, the Shoah Foundation Institute, now part of the University of Southern California College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, has been undertaking one of the world's largest digital video archiving projects: the digitization and storage of more than 100,000 hours of interviews with survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust. Sun Fire servers, Sun StorageTek™ 6540 arrays, and the Sun StorageTek SL8500 modular library system have helped the foundation to save $6 million.

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Vocational School G18 is part of a large education complex in Hamburg, Germany. Once they decided they needed a test environment for virtualized desktops, they used Sun’s Try and Buy program to evaluate Sun servers and storage. "One Sun Fire X4600 M2 server with 64 GB of RAM connected to a Sun StorageTek 2540 array and running VMware ESX Server and VMware Lab Manager successfully delivered 60 virtual machines to a classroom of students,” says Edgar Landsiedel, department head at Vocational School G18.

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eWEEK Senior Writer Chris Preimesberger included the Sun™ Storage 7000 Unified Storage System chose a Sun in his list of the top 10 storage stories of the year. He described the product line as "the industry's first open-source storage appliance that can be used in a small IT system - or, using a larger form factor, in a large datacenter." The article also notes the high level of interest in the new Sun Storage 7000 Series - within 24 hours of publishing an article about the product launch, eWEEK recorded 34,000 page views.

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EDS Note: Cloud computing a reality for EDS clients
Recommend cloud computing to your customers with confidence, knowing Sun has the products, connections and expertise to make it happen.

Internetnews.com covered the unveiling of Sun's cloud computing strategy and reported, Sun is "bringing its considerable hardware, software and expertise to bear on cloud computing projects." IDC analyst Jean Bozman states, "They have all the pieces to make cloud computing work and have relationships with service providers to do it."

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EDS Note: Helping your customers reach their audiences
Now you can point your clients' developers down an easier path to delivering Web content - even in an unfriendly browser environment.


In an interview with ZDNet, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz discusses the "three reasons you need JavaFX." Schwartz notes that Java™ is the #1 instructed language worldwide and highlighted how JavaFX™ software enables developers to gain access to consumers outside of hostile browser environments, including making it easier for developers to build content in an environment with increasing numbers of devices and Web clients.

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EDS Note: Sun storage systems remain hot
Maintaining a yearlong trend, Sun disk storage systems continue to sell briskly among top companies.


Sun announced that the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker, or the third quarter of 2008, confirmed Sun’s fourth consecutive quarter of significant revenue growth for total disk storage systems sales, with a 25% year-over-year increase in factory revenue. Sun topped the list for year-over-year revenue growth for external disk systems, during the third quarter of 2008, and outperformed the overall market by almost two times.

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A posting on blogs.sun.com highlighted Gartner’s recently announced Magic Quadrant for Web Access Management. Sun is positioned in the leaders quadrant.

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In his blog, RedMonk's James Governor looked at possible strategies for Sun and highlighted the company’s successes with storage devices, the GlassFish™ server, the MySQL database, and Sun Ray™ appliances. He notes, "Innovation doesn’t happen elsewhere. It happens at Sun."

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Sun is included in ZDNet Asia’s Top Tech Index. The index aims to help businesses to make informed IT purchasing decisions by identifying companies with good financial performance, a proven track record, and a commitment to the Asian market.
 
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In his Enterprise Storage Forum.com article, "Sun May Surprise Its Critics," Paul Shread examined Sun’s financial performance and indicated that some recent news coverage may be overly negative. He notes that the company has "about $2 billion more in cash and liquid investments than debt," and that "with the $700 million to $800 million in projected annual savings from a smaller workforce, Sun could get back to break-even in less than a year."

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Linux Magazine commented on the release of MySQL 5.1 software. The article notes that "the developers have concentrated on performance, which has improved database acceleration by 15%."

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In Ars Technica, Ryan Paul looked in detail at OpenSolaris™ 2008.11 software. "The new version boosts hardware compatibility and brings some impressive improvements," says Paul. He describes ZFS™ software as "one of the most impressive technologies in Solaris," and, in his conclusion, notes that "OpenSolaris 2008.11 is a very big step forward for Sun."

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In InformationWeek, Charles Babcock considered Sun’s launch of the JavaFX scripting language. He comments that JavaFX will "make it easier for designers, content creators, and scripting language users ― a less programming literate group than Java [Platform,] Enterprise Edition developers ― to build interactive Web applications."

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A blog on PC Softs commented on Sun xVM VirtualBox™ software: "Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU Public License."

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David Frith’s article in Australian IT compared OpenOffice.org™ software and Microsoft Office, stating: chose a Sun "It does almost everything MS Office does but, unlike the Microsoft product, it's free." The article also notes: "In the first four weeks after release, OpenOffice[.org] 3.0 was downloaded more than 12 million times. That's probably at least $2.5 billion lost to Microsoft, and mounting at $600 million a week."

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Good News from Sun Microsystems - Published as of January 2009


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Jump in sales of Sun disk storage systems:

Independent sources confirm a 25% year-over-year increase in factory revenue of Sun total disk storage systems sales.
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SaaS powerhouse chooses Sun:

Find out why Germany-based Conemis AG recently standardized its software-as-a-service on Sun.
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Circumvent hostile browsers with JavaFX:

In an interview with ZDNet, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz discusses three reasons developers need JavaFX™.
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