Sun donates source code

Following its recent archival product release, Sun has donated the source code for its StorageTek 5800 System to the OpenSolaris and Java.net open source communities, says idm.net.au.

Previously known as "Project Honeycomb", Sun has released the code in an attempt to overcome the challenges associated with the long-term archival of increasing large tracts of digital information such as business images, records, e-science work and high-performance computing data.

Storing this information for hundreds of years is making file-based data and the management of file-based storage assets a serious challenge. Sun believes its StorageTek 5800 source code is more viable choice than closed, proprietary offerings that are both expensive and prone to vendor lock-in.

BEA Systems and VMware have furthered their partnership by announcing plans to provide products for Java virtualisation for the enterprise in a future release, says ChannelWeb.

The companies collaborated on the development of seamless extension between BEA's virtualisation products and VMware's VirtualCenter called LiquidVM VI Client Extension. VMware said it intends to package the product within a future release of its Virtual Center product line.

The new product will enable VMware customers to access to BEA's other LiquidVM-based offerings within VMware's VI Client user interface. Customers will be able to deploy and manage enterprise Java applications as virtual machines within a VMware-virtualised environment.

Sun Microsystems has completed its $1 billion acquisition of open source database vendor MySQL and will move aggressively to acquire other open source vendors, says Redmondmag.com.

While no specific targets were cited, Sun president and CEO Jonathan Schwartz said the MySQL acquisition will be a key component in Sun's effort to transform itself into a key provider of open source software.

"Open source is really in the DNA of Sun," Schwartz said. "As such, when we look across the marketplace, those companies that have built good, high-integrity communities and have broad distribution and some measure of commercial success are the ones we are going to be most interested in."