Monthly Archive for September, 2007

Solaris Express Developer Edition 9/07

Solaris Express Developer Edition 9/07 is released and has a new installer! Great to see this update.

Download it or order a free DVD.

Update:

Solaris Express Developer Edition 9/07 VMware Image now available.

Sun Ecotour meets Pixelpark

Today, Sun’s Ecotour stops at our office in Berlin. Rolf Kersten and the Sun Ecorider brought us a lot of fun while having a short ride at Oberbaum City.

Ecorider inside:

Sun Ecorider meets Pixelpark
Ecorider for everybody:

Sun Ecorider meets Pixelpark
Ecorider and me:

Sun Ecorider meets Pixelpark

Sun’s new 4-socket 16-core Intel Xeon MP 7300 series server

As mentioned on Jonathan’s Blog, Sun will release a new 4-socket 16-core Intel Xeon MP 7300 series server.

Some facts about Sun’s new 16-core Intel Server:

  • 2U Rackmount Server
  • 4 Sockets, 16 Cores in one Box
  • Intel Tigerton 7300 Quad Core CPUs, currently up to 2,93Ghz/120W
  • 32 DIMM Slots, up to 256GB RAM
  • 8 hot-swap SAS 2.5″ Disks

Nice to see more than 4 disks in a Sun server. This was still a gap, comparing Sun Galaxy Servers to IBM or HP Boxes.

Hope that the Bios and ILOM will be better than ILOM of the Sun Blade 6000 X6250 modules, currently the Blade6000 feels quite beta compared to the Sun X4200 Bios and ILOM.

Solaris 10 8/07 released

Solaris 10 Update 4 is released today !

Late, but now, we’re happy ;-)
The product and download instructions for Solaris 10 8/07 are now available on sun.com:
http://www.sun.com/software/swportfolio/get.jsp
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/download_instruction.xml