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Sun to shed up to 6,000 jobs

Sun Microsystems late last week announced plans to shed between 5,000 and 6,000 jobs. Read more »

Python 2.6 released, marches towards 3.0

The Python Software Foundation today released version 2.6 of the popular language, a release that lays the groundwork for the language-changing Python 3.0 release. Read more »

Major vendors in virtualisation moves

Microsoft, Citrix, Novell and Sun Microsystems all made announcements around virtualisation overnight. Read more »

Chrome's jittered JavaScript kills Silverlight?

The biggest rival for Microsoft's next-generation Silverlight Web technology will be JavaScript, not Adobe's ubiquitous Flash, according to experts speaking at Microsoft's Tech.Ed conference in Sydney this morning. Read more »

ASUS motherboard has instant-on version of Linux

ASUS is to embed a lightweight, instant-on version of Linux called "Splashtop" into all its motherboards, following good feedback from customers. Read more »

Mac OS X gets first open-source virtualisation tool

Sun has released a major update to its open-source desktop virtualisation tool xVM VirtualBox, adding support for Apple's Mac OS X and Solaris host operating systems, in addition to other improvements. Read more »

Sun's OpenSolaris ready for developers

Sun Microsystems gave developers a gift at the CommunityOne developer conference on Monday — a packaged version of OpenSolaris with a new logo. Read more »

Microsoft: Virtualisation is overhyped, under-used

Server virtualisation is over-hyped and less used than reported, according to Microsoft executives speaking at the launch of Windows Server 2008. Read more »

Sun rises on xVM stategy

Sun Microsystems' xVM virtualisation efforts are getting louder and louder. Read more »

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Oracle gets the hots for virtualisation

Oracle president Charles Phillips played tour guide Monday, pointing out virtualisation and the company's application integration architecture (AIA) as two key areas to watch for this year as the software giant moves forward in building its "stack." Read more »

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Hyper-V R2 scalability and cross-processor migration features introduced

Microsoft has been racing to catch up in the enterprise virtualisation space, and the company's efforts appear to be bearing fruit. Feature sets and scalability are quickly making gains against market leader VMware. This article introduces two new Hyper-V R2 features that are coming and contrasts them against similar VMware offerings. Read more »

Installing Data Protection Manager 2007 as a VM in a lab environment

This article describes how to install DPM 2007 as a virtual machine in a lab environment. Here are the gotchas to look out for and an explanation of the benefits you can realise. Read more »

Turning over the desktop: VDI, Terminals and more

This article talks about some of the reasons you might consider VDI. Here, he'll go over some of the ways by which a VDI implementation takes form. Read more »

Maximise your jdb debugging sessions

Jdb, the Java Debugger provided by Sun, can do most of the things you're used to doing in your normal debugger. Find out how you can get the most out of your jdb debugging sessions. Read more »

Take a stance on virtual machine time sync

The seemingly inevitable trend towards virtualisation brings one important point to Windows administrators: time settings. Make a decision on how to approach VM time early on before it bites you. Read more »

10 surprising things about Windows Server 2008

When you take a look at Windows Server 2008, you'll discover big changes -- including some legitimate improvements. This article outlines a few of the unexpected aspects of the new OS, both good and bad. Read more »

Multi-core state of play

It promises to be the biggest revolution in programming since object orientation -- but it remains virtually unheard of to most developers. Thanks to the development and uptake of multi-core CPUs, developers must begin to consider truly programming in parallel. Read more »

Monitor and manage Java applications with JConsole

The jconsole command launches a graphical console tool that enables you to monitor and manage Java applications on a local or remote machine. Read more »

What virtualisation tools are available for testing?

This article talks about some of the free or inexpensive tools you might use to accomplish your virtualisation testing. Read more »

Ecosystem breaking from Microsoft's grip?

Microsoft got where it is today through its influence over manufacturers. It no longer has the control it once enjoyed. Read more »

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Gosling: How Java handles multi-core

James Gosling, the man behind Java, speaks of the benefits of the Java VM (HotSpot) and how it can deal with multi-core environments Read more »

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Dalvik -- the Android VM

How does Dalvik, the virtual machine inside Android, help performance? Dan Morrill, developer advocate at Google, gives a quick overview of bytecode VM. Read more »

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Non-professional Oracle wrestling

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- The latest and greatest version of the Oracle database, 11g Release 2, was made available recently and as the resident technical person, it fell to me to take it for a spin. Little did I realise the hell that I had just walked into. Read more »

The Tamarin Seed

Andrew Muller [blogs:nouveauricheinternet] -- In announcing that they've contributed the source code for the ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM2) to the Mozilla project Adobe has done something really exciting today. Read more »

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    This week, highlights from Microsoft's MIX10 conference and more in the Roundup. Read more »

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    In a split decision by the judges, the winner of the W3C/WHATWG video codec consensus is H.264, taking home the future of video playback on the internet while loser Ogg goes home with nothing but thoughts of what might have been. Read more »

    -- posted by Chris Duckett

  • Staff Google launches Apps Marketplace

    Google launches and app store, while Mozilla plans to re-write its open-source license. More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »

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