Via Tatsuo Kudo - Gartner recently published their latest vendor rating for Sun . The overall picture is, well, sunny, if you'll pardon the pun, but I'm particularly pleased with their ratings in the areas of Identity and Access Management and Open Source - 'Strong Positive' * for both, which means that OpenSSO and OpenDS must be doubly blessed * Strong Positive: Is viewed as a provider of strategic products, services or solutions: Customers: Continue with planned investments. Potential customers:

Linux shop adds Solaris for performance boost Wow - "[...] it turned out that Solaris 10 had a throughput that was 50 times better." (tags: fedora linux solaris solaris10 sun t1000 t2000 ubuntu ) Open Source at Sun Microsystems, 2008 Gartner Analysis. Synopsis: Open source at Sun Microsystems is strong, and Gartner expects an increasing role for open source within its business strategies in coming years. (tags: analysis gartner opensource sun ) BigAdmin Feature Article: Using Kerberos to Authenticate

Here is a description on how to use the xmldap relyingparty with SUN's glassfish application server. It works like a charm. 1) Download GlassFish http://www.java.net/download/javaee5/v2ur1/promoted/SunOS/glassfish-installer-v2ur1-b09d-sunos-ml.jar 2) Run the installer/unpacker java -Xmx256m -jar glassfish-installer-v2ur1-b09d-windows-ml.jar 3) cd glassfish lib\ant\bin\ant -f setup.xml 4) Add D:\Programme\glassfish\bin to the PATH variable echo %PATH% OK 5) Started glassfish asadmin start-domain domain1

This is so brain-dead, it is actually quite funny: In a move to make sure that he will be seen - once again - as a brave contrarian, John Dvorak thinks that Oracle paid Sun to kill MySQL. After reading this article, I had to verify that this was not The Onion , but actually MarketWatch. His argument is fairly simple: Sun has a bad track-record of M&A, so Larry Ellison forces his old buddy Scott ... ahmm, no wait, it's Jonathan now ... to buy MySQL and ruin it. To prove his point, Dvorak links

After reading the Oracle/BEA announcement, when I sent my condolences to some of my ex-BEA colleagues, one of them replied by saying It will be nice to have a database as part of our stack Another one was a bit more pragmatic: In case of Sun/MySQL, it is Sun.add(MySQL.getInstance()); getSupportContracts(); In case of Oracle/BEA, it is INSERT INTO TABLE_APPSERVER(BEA); DBMS_LOCK.SLEEP(2 [...]

This makes total sense - and finally Sun gets a real database. I can think of at least 10 different major software products from Sun that would benefits enomously from switching from their respective current database platform to a single data store. I am really looking forward to having a single API and place to store structured data in Solaris and Java. Cool. It reminds me also of the phrase someone coined: "LAMP is for boys, MARS [1] is for men." tag: Sun , Solaris , MySQL [1] MySQL, Apache, Ruby,

This came as bit of a surprise. I guess Sun is serious about this open source stuff after all. No Tags

... since I joined Sun. Actually 10 years almost to the date, so Bill presented my 10 year recognition certificate to me today. It has been a very interesting 10 years: I started out as a pre-sales systems engineer in Frankfurt, Germany, moved to the U.S. in 2000 to work with the Sun Legal team (mostly) and then joined the Business Alliances group in 2005. From this point a big "Thank you" to everyone who I worked with on this journey. tag: Sun