Open Cloud Platform launched by Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems has announced the launch of its own cloud computing platform named Open Cloud Platform.
Sun Microsystems’ Open Cloud Platform is powered by Java, MySQL, OpenSolaris, and Open Storage software technologies.
The company also announced Sun Cloud which is their public cloud-computing service designed for developers and [...]
Toshiba to offer OpenSolaris powered laptops
This is a surprising new development. Japanese personal computer maker Toshiba has announced that they are collaborating with Sun Microsystems to offer laptops based on their OpenSolaris operating system.
These laptops would go on sale early next year and would be aimed at the geeks.
A company representative said: “Toshiba and [...]
OpenSolaris 2008.11 released
The developers behind the OpenSolaris operating system have released the latest version.
OpenSolaris 2008.11 is now available for download.
OpenSolaris 2008.11 comes loaded with Firefox 3, Gnome 2.24 and OpenOffice 3 in addition to a complete web stack.
System requirements are pretty modest at: 512 MB of RAM and 2.6 GB of [...]
Sun Microsystems collaborates with Joyent for Bebo developers
Sun Microsystems has announced that they are now collaborating with cloud computing service provider Joyent.
The two companies would now offer one year of free Web hosting to Bebo developers for hosting their applications.
Bebo is a social networking service which is very popular in the European markets.
Sun is hoping [...]
Sun Microsystems set to launch OpenSolaris with support
Sun Microsystems is going to launch today the supported version of OpenSolaris at the CommunityOne conference in San Francisco.
This supported edition would be version 2008.5. Sun spoke about this launch: “It’s a major milestone in the development of OpenSolaris, and opens the door for more deployments.”
They are going [...]
National Security Agency to work with Sun to improve Solaris
Sun Microsystems has announced that they are now going to work with U.S. National Security Agency to develop security mechanisms for OpenSolaris.
The two groups would now work on the OpenSolaris project to integrate an additional form of mandatory access control.
The networking company added that this collaboration [...]
Roy Fielding quits from the Sun’s OpenSolaris Project
Roy Fielding, co-founder of the Apache HTTP Server Project has announced that he is quitting from the Sun Microsystem’s OpenSolaris Project.
He said that the company has way too much control over the project which is not helping the developers.
He added: “Sun didn’t just make vague statements to me [...]
