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Sun snuggles with cloud virtual data centre company

Anonymous Coward

Like Cobalt? 

Posted Wednesday 7th January 2009 20:37 GMT

Will this be like how Sun handled Cobalt?

Anonymous Coward

Cobalt 

Posted Thursday 8th January 2009 11:06 GMT

@AC1

I think it's time already to grow up and forget about old Sun and get used to new Sun... this will most probably be like Aduva, SeeBeyond, StorageTek, MySQL or Innotek acquisitions... all of their IP are part of Sun's current offerings.... no, more than that, are the core offerings, together with their servers and solaris/opensolaris

it fits perfectly well, first with Q-Layer's DC-OS being based on opensolaris and second with Sun's Virtualbox and xVM Server... they have everything covered in the cloud

Datacenter Hardware + Virtualization products + and awesome OS (with ZFS, COMSTAR, Crossbow... and more) + MySQL for databases + Java for application servers + QLayer's NephOS and PyMonkey... yeah, I'm pretty sure this will end well

Anonymous Coward

Sun on the way back... 

Posted Thursday 8th January 2009 12:15 GMT

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Stock is over 5$ again and look at all those positive comments about Solaris:

http://opensolariswatcher.blogspot.com/

EnigmaForce

@AC 

Posted Thursday 8th January 2009 12:46 GMT

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Yeah, been climbing for a while now. Java FX, Solaris 10 update 6 (ZFS root!!), OpenSolaris 2008.11, updates to VirtualBox, Sun Storage 7000 machines, mid-range SPARC64 machine and T3120 just around the corner, and Sun Ray software 4.1 - totally, totally spoiled on cool stuff from Sun over the last few months and no way it could have been ignored for long :)

metadaddy

Don't forget identity! 

Posted Friday 9th January 2009 09:41 GMT

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@AC2 - don't forget Waveset - Waveset Lighthouse became Sun Identity Manager - still the cornerstone of Sun's (very successful) identity & access management product line.