essbase on solaris – are you mad?
Several years ago Sun began a project to update and consolidate the business intelligence tools used at Sun and we decided on Hyperion as we had a variety of Hyperion tools already: Brio, Essbase. This was a few years before the Oracle acquisition of Hyperion and we wanted to run on Solaris. This meant we [...]
Welcome
As a somewhat irregular blogger at blogs.sun.com, I’ve moved my blogs and content here (thanks to Suns ownership policy). For me blogs.sun.com has been a high-tech water cooler moment, where I can observe and interact with other Sun employees on Sun, technology and related items. The beauty was that while most items have been [...]
last Sun entry
This is my last Sun post, as the Sun Oracle integration takes another step forward tomorrow with the Legal Entity Combination of the UK entities. In the coming weeks there’s new systems to learn and integrate with as well as finding out what the longer term goals are and how I fit in. This road [...]
i for one welcome our new Oracle overlords
So it’s happened. Sun is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oracle. Oracle announced a live event for customers, partners, press, and analysts, to take place today, on January 27th from 9am PST, to provide an Oracle + Sun strategy update. Details on how to watch the Webcast are available on the Sun and Oracle acquisition website.
OpenOffice 3.2/StarOffice 9.2 around the corner
While it seems that in some respects the world has been standing still with the Oracle acquisition, there is lots of hard work being done by dedicated engineers inside and outside Sun Microsystems. One more example is the soon to be released OpenOffice 3.2/ StarOffice 9.2 updates, this is both a feature and bug release [...]
open source software and survival of the fittest
There has been lots of recent discussions about open source and how that either helps or hinders proprietary software, depending on your point of view. Open Source Software (OSS) is starting to gain more momentum: Firefox has almost 25% market share in December, 440 million downloads of Firefox 3.5 OpenOffice has over 100 million downloads [...]
SSDs to the forefront
Following up my recent posts concerning SSD and flash based disks, there seems to be a growing understanding of the power of SSDs and also some confusion over the pricing and whether some are faster than others. I’ve compiled a summary of some other posts and info: Are some SSDs faster/better than others? YES, it [...]
The secret flash sauce
After the announcements from Oracle Open World and new TPC benchmark, a lot of focus has been on Sun and the innovation DNA that drives the company. The announcements focus on flash and their increasing use in computing: Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe Card Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array So what is the secret sauce [...]
Sun Java Communications Suite 7 released
Sun last week announced the release of the latest version of the Sun Java Communications Suite (what a mouthful), it’s now version 7! So what are the key products and features? Calendar Server 7, with CalDAV support, enabling interoperability with Mac iCal/iPhone and Mozilla Thunderbird. Sun Convergence 1 U3, provides an AJAX rich client web [...]
More good news for Sun customers
Hot on the heels of the previous WSJ ads is this teaser for launch 15th Sept @1PM PST: What is it? this is the blurb from the teaser: "the world’s first OLTP database machine with Sun FlashFire technology" It’s great to see some collaboration and new technology You can sign up for the webcast here.
