Sun virtualizes for developers
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Sun's acquisition of the VirtualBox project is very much part and parcel of what is probably Sun's single greatest thrust--to reconnect with the development community that it once essentially owned but who abandoned it en masse for Linux.
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Sun exec: "If we want to keep Java relevant, we have to support this newer programming model."
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Sun Microsystems is acquiring German software developer Innotek and its Virtualbox technology. With more than four million downloads, Virtualbox is already enabling enterprises around the world to switch between multiple operating systems at the click of a mouse button.
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Virtualization looks tasty, but VMware is so scary -- let's shack up with another also-ran!
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Sun Microsystems Inc.  is  revamping its Solaris operating system, incorporating key  pieces of rival Linux software in a move that could gain better  support from developers who have massed behind Linux.
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Sun Microsystems (Quote, Chart) announced the availability of two upgrades to its software development platforms on Tuesday. Java Studio Enterprise (JSE) 7, the Santa Clara, Calif.
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SAN JOSE, Calif.--When Sun Microsystems releases Solaris as open-source software, it plans to provide legal protection from patent-infringement suits to outsiders using or developing the operating system--one of several ways Sun hopes to make Solaris more
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Sun is getting into the open-source business with Solaris, but will this automatically translate into better sales?
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Sun's BrandZ technology, which lets Linux applications run on a virtual slice of a Solaris x86 installation, is finally ready for prime time.
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Sun Microsystems previously offered the server software for its Sun Ray thin-client devices on Solaris systems only. But the company is adding support for Linux servers as part of an upgrade that also includes technology designed to make it easier to use the thin clients remotely.
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InfoWorld - Sun will unveil compiler and tool technologies on Monday that leverage multicore chip architectures and extend to Linux application development.
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Sun Microsystems is readying an upgrade to its enterprise-level application server and is touting new downloading figures as evidence of the companyâs growing presence in the application server market.
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In a new article on Builder.com, Brendon Chase shows you how to get a LAMP development environment fired up without the hassles of configuring everything from scratch -- using XAMPP. XAMPP is a single packaged download from Apache Friends which provides all of the pieces of software needed, plus more you probably don't need, to make Apache installations with server-side scripting and a few database options ready to go in a testing or development environment. The article focuses on getting XAMPP running on Linux (it will also work on Windows and a version for Sun's Solaris is also available). The example in the article uses a Debian-based Linux distribution, but just about any flavour of Linux will work.
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(InfoWorld) - Sun will unveil compiler and tool technologies on Monday that leverage multicore chip architectures and extend to Linux application development. Sun Studio 12 enables development in the C, C++, and Fortran languages for Solaris and, now, Linux. Developers can build enterprise transactional and Web applications and migrate existing programs to support multithreaded capabilities, according to Sun. "With Sun Studio 12, we are continuing that tradition of record-breaking performance. However, the big message with this release is about multithreaded development," said Sun's Jeet Kaul, vice president of developer products and programs. With the emergence of multicore chips from Sun and Intel, developers are under pressure to build multithreaded software that leverages multicore chips, Kaul said. "What we have done with Sun Studio 12 is we have made the building of these multithreaded applications easier," he said. With multicore processors, programmers need to be able to write software that features parallelism. Although Sun already has offered this, Sun Studio 12 provides more tools for it, such as its thread and performance analyzers, Kaul said. "Both of these tools have the ability to understand multiple threads," said Kaul. In addition, Sun Studio 12 is the first time Sun is supporting C, C++, and Fortran development for Linux, Kaul said. Developers also can build applications on Linux and compile them, then take the same application with the same source code and run it on Solaris, said Kaul. Sun's enabling Sun Studio 12 to be used across Solaris and Linux and on different architectures such as Intel and SPARC is valuable to the scientific community, which comprises a good portion of the user base, said analyst Joe Niski of Burton Group. "I think they made a lot of really smart moves in terms of getting broader reach, not just for the IDE but for the compilers," Niski said. Sun Studio 12, which is offered free of charge, is based on the NetBeans 5.5 platform. It is accessible on Sun's Web site. Sun offers support services for Sun Studio 12.
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A Linux developer has come up with a virtualized I/O system that allows competing virtualization software to use one mechanism for handling storage and other virtual devices.
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Analysis: To promote the popularity of its Solaris operating system, Sun must entice developers and mend rifts.
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InfoWorld - Sun is sprucing up Solaris Express Developer Edition, which features the Solaris OS bundled with tools, by supporting enhanced application development for multicore processors.