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The much-ballyhooed Itanium 2 Processor from Intel made its official debut Monday, following a flurry of media hype and expectation that it will soon outpace competitive offerings from rivals Sun Microsystems and Advanced Micro Devices and become the processor platform of choice for the high-end data computing industry. Following the splashy May, 2002 release of […]

[ Thanks to Jeff for this link. ] Developing Microsoft .NET Web Service Clients for EJB Web Services with IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer and the Microsoft .NET Framework SDK. After hearing months of fighting between .NET and J2EE it’s nice to see an article that shows that they can be interoperable in a Web […]

The results from the June 2002 Netcraft Web Server Survey are in. Results for the June survey were compiled from responses received from more than 38.8 million Web sites. This is the first increase since February, and it surpasses that month’s peak of 38.4 million sites. Apache shows a sharp uptick in deployment. The results […]

By Amy Newman Sun Microsystems Tuesday unleashed more UltraSPARC arsenal in an attempt to lure potential customers away from the Wintel space with the release of the Sun Fire V480, the latest addition to the Sun Fire line, and a new, souped-up V880. Sun Microsystems Tuesday unleashed more UltraSPARC arsenal in an attempt to lure […]

Database expert Allan N. Packer shares database best practices from his recently-released book, “Configuring and Tuning Databases on the Solaris Platform.” In this article, Packer presents a process for identifying and resolving problems with the performance of database servers. Database expert Allan N. Packer shares database best practices from his recently-released book, Configuring and Tuning […]

“Sun built the Solaris OE around open standards, providing support for application interoperability between different language formats and diverse platforms, such as Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, Linux, and other UNIX. operating systems. This makes the Solaris OE an ideal service delivery platform for the Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE).” “… Since its inception, Sun […]

When Mark Dangelo accepted his position as acting CIO for Ocwen Technology Exchange a year ago, his first order of business was to address the company’s tangle of servers. Sun Fire 15K servers allow “‘you to do server consolidation without having to buy a lot of different server components’ … giving much of the credit […]

This article discusses how the VNU news web site, which runs on the Apache Web server and Tomcat, has been designed to handle high loads. The tricks involve letting another instance of Apache handle all of the static traffic, caching articles in the servlet container itself, and executing each application in a different container in […]

This article discusses two tools for benchmarking web sites and shows us how to use them. Users may rely on “First Scout” to gather a list of URLs into a file. And “Siege” can use the resulting file to bombard a web server with requests from concurrent simulated users to stress test it. This article […]

WebGain announced significant cuts in staffing and infrastructure and sold its TopLink data integration product. WebGain says that its primary objective is the sale of the company’s product lines and all of its other assets, consistent with its plan to maximize returns to its creditors and shareholders. In the interim, the company intends to provide […]

Platform Computing releases Platform Clusterware 5 at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco. Platform said Clusterware “leverages the strengths of Platform’s flagship workload management software, Platform LSF, to provide the industry’s first and only cluster management solution that combines workload management and systems management into a single, integrated package.” Platform Computing releases Platform […]

XML Global Technologies, a developer of XML middleware, announced that it has signed a joint marketing agreement with Sun Microsystems that will market and sell a range of XML Global’s XML Web Service integration components to Sun customers. According to XML Global, the agreement establishes its branded products among the optimal integration solutions for the […]