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Sun's Dynamic Tracing Tool For Next Solaris Upgrade Released This Week

Sun is giving an early liftoff to an advanced detection technology designed for the next version of Solaris that speedily diagnoses and repairs system problems.

The diagnostic tool, called dynamic tracing, or D-Trace, is characterized as a "flight recorder" for both Unix and x86-based versions of Solaris, and will be officially announced and distributed to customers and partners on Tuesday, said John Loiciano, vice president of the operating systems group at Sun, Santa Clara, Calif.

The technology is just one of roughly 300 new features planned for Solaris Next, an upgrade that includes support for Advanced Micro Devices' 64-bit processor, and due in mid-2004.

More: CRN

Posted 2003-11-15, 01:08 GMT by BFG
 

Sun plans server with AMD's Opteron

Sun Microsystems Chief Executive Scott McNealy is expected to announce his company's intention to sell servers using Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor--a significant endorsement for the chip.

McNealy will make the announcement Nov. 17 at the Comdex trade show in Las Vegas, sources familiar with the plan said. The move would make Sun the second, after IBM, of the top four server makers to back the AMD processor.

The move isn't entirely unexpected. John Loiacono, head of Sun's operating systems products, said in April that Sun was likely to sell Opteron servers. And Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's top software executive, said in October that Sun will release a version of its Solaris operating system specifically for Opteron in 2004.

More: News.Com

Posted 2003-11-10, 11:18 GMT by Mariusz Zynel
 

Sun Versus Linux: The x86 Smack-down

Sun's new story is that Solaris x86 is a better, safer, and more stable alternative to Linux. Sun has even gone so far as to offer a a couple of top-of-the-line Intel-based x86 systems in single and dual processor configurations. The systems currently include at no extra cost licensed Solaris 9 x86 pre-installed (no-cost up until January 4, 2004), with an option to purchase Red Hat Enterprise Linux for an additional cost.

With this new push for Solaris x86 I decided to take a fresh look with Sun's latest, Solaris 9 x86 Platform Edition and pit it against Red Hat Linux 9 in a number of categories, including features, security, and performance.

More: OS News

Posted 2003-10-21, 21:57 GMT by Mariusz Zynel
 

Sun gives glimpse of revised Solaris TCP/IP stack

Sun Microsystems' new Software Express program is alive and kicking with the company delivering a rewritten TCP/IP stack for Solaris that is meant to prepare customers for faster networking technology.

More: The Register

Posted 2003-10-19, 02:55 GMT by BFG
 

Enterprise Unix Roundup: Solaris x86 Resurgent, Sun's Side of the Story

So after two straight weeks of puzzling over Sun's incomprehensible dithering about its love/hate relationship with Linux and reporting on HP's attempt at a flanking maneuver, we shouldn't have been surprised to hear from someone at Sun. That someone ended up being John Loiacono, Sun's VP of Operating Platforms.

Our first question was polite enough: What's with the disconnect between Scott McNealy's penguin costume antics and Mr. Schwartz's cold-eyed dismissal of Linux on the server?

More: ServerWatch

Posted 2003-10-19, 02:49 GMT by BFG
 

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