Oracle Corporation and Sun Microsystems announced
on April 20th that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun's cash and debt . This acquisition combines best-in-class enterprise software and mission-critical computing systems. Customers benefit as their systems integration costs go down while system performance, reliability, and security go up.
With the largest and fastest-growing Web 2.0 sites running on it,
Sun's MySQL™ is the world’s most popular open-source database software. From Ticketmaster (the world’s largest live event ticketing and marketing company) to Big Fish Games (which serves over 1 million game downloads every day) to Mixi (Japan’s most popular social networking site), MySQL software is chosen by online retailers, collaborative content sites, social networking sites, and more.
The Jülich Supercomputer Centre
― which provides supercomputing time for universities and research groups throughout Germany ― has chosen the Sun Constellation System, together with Sun's ZFS™ and Lustre™ file systems.
Sun open source software is enabling the United States Department of Health and Human Services to build a secure, open technology platform for connecting federal government agencies and health information exchanges in a “network of networks.” The new solution will help increase efficiency and improve patient care.
Major League Baseball Advanced Media ― the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball ― chose Sun to deploy two new datacenters and a digital asset management system. Bob Bowman, CEO of Major League Baseball Advanced Media LP, comments, "After evaluating our choices, we felt Sun was the only company that could handle the magnitude and scope of Major League Baseball Advanced Media's commitment to supporting baseball's extensive 2,430 games per year."
eWEEK reports on how Sun is expanding its Open Network Systems approach,
with the announcement of seven new servers based on Intel’s Nehalem EP processors. The new Sun servers include integrated networking technologies and on-board, flash-based SSD memory. In the article, IDC analyst Jean Bozman comments, “For commercial customers, Sun is improving virtualization for I/O, which is really important because we are seeing that the number of VMs [virtual machines] on [physical] servers is going up. Having better virtualized I/O is important.”
Linux Magazine reports on the announcement of MySQL 5.4 software
and considers how its optimizations can improve performance on a wide range of computing platforms. The article quotes Robin Schumacher, Sun's director of product management for MySQL, who comments, “MySQL 5.4 [software] improves server utilization, handles more concurrent users, and provides 60 percent better price/performance.”
IT PRO’s review of the Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage System
gives the product a five-star rating and the IT PRO Editor’s Choice award. The article comments on how the system includes features that other vendors charge extra for: “For your money you get unlimited snapshots, integral data compression, iSCSI thin provisioning, virus scanning, and even remote replication.” The review concludes, “[Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage System] offers a massive expansion potential and good performance across a range of protocols.”
PC Pro’s review of the Sun Fire™ X4440 server reaches the verdict:
“The one and only 2U quad Opteron 8300 server on the market delivers a superb blend of features and value that's more than a match for the competition.” The review gives the server a five-star rating and the PC Pro Recommended award.
eWEEK’s review of Sun xVM VirtualBox™ 2.2
notes how the product “now offers support for Open Virtualization Format, host-only networking that broadens how virtual machines communicate, folder sharing, and OpenGL and 3D graphics support.” In comparing Sun’s offering to VMware Workstation, the article states, “With these new features, xVM VirtualBox 2.2 is an even more compelling alternative.”
In his Econsultancy blog, Patricio Robles
considers the preview release of MySQL 5.4 software and writes, “From the looks of it, things are only getting better with 5.4 and the level of continued development is impressive.” The blog states that MySQL is the world’s most widely used open-source database and that popular Web sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, depend on it. Robles also comments, “MySQL is getting more robust and it's getting faster.”
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