Top Ten Articles for Vol 85 Issue 5

• 'Why?' Is Not a Four-letter Word at Sun Labs [14061]
• Benchmarks for Sun[tm] Studio 10 Software and Solaris[tm] 10 OS [14313]
• Chip Multi-Threading for Software Developers [14286]
• JPMorgan Tests Solaris[tm] 10 OS for Grid Computing and Data Archiving [14318]
• Sun Java System Instant Messaging New Release Features New Privacy Controls [14314]
• One Million Solaris[tm] 10 Licenses Distributed in 2005 [14312]
• Project Coyote Adds Support for Scripting Languages to NetBeans[tm] IDE [14307]
• "Head First Java, Second Edition" [14298]
• Sun and Open Standards [14316]
• Identity Management Gives Business a Secure Advantage [14292]

Vol 86 Issue 1

The OpenSolaris Community Advisory Board has been selected and Sun's Executive Vice President of Software John Loiacono comments on it and the next version of the Solaris[tm] Operating System (Solaris OS) [14331]. In other news, Sun and NEC have expanded their strategic alliance [14348], Sun's Asia-Pacific Region is gaining momentum in the x86 market [14333].
Sun is offering a promotion on its AMD powered systems [14322].

Sun and IBM's utility computing models are compared [14324] in the Features section that also offers a progress report on Sun and Microsoft's broad collaboration arrangement one year later [14330]. Plus, a recent poll shows CIOs expect to increase their IT spending [14332].

The Software section provides details on the Solaris Service Plans [14269], the latest Jini[tm] Technology Starter Kit [14315] and how to get an Adventure DV3 Camera while becoming Sun certified [14354].

Get information on a recently released patch for the Sun Java[tm] Studio Enterprise 7 [14363] and how this software supports the latest UML version [14305].

In the Java section, read about the U.S. Air Force's implementation of a Java[sm] Center of Excellence program [14350], the first Java[tm] Research Center in Asia [14352], J2SE[tm] 5.0 and concurrent programming [14328] and securing Web Services with XWS-Security framework [14290].

New updates on accessing SunSolve[tm] and the Sun System Handbook [14304] are in the SysAdmin section along with a Sun business brief on data retention compliance [14282].

The Life Sciences section details the Sun Bio Workstation and Bio Cluster solutions [14300] and how Sun servers are helping catalogue the world's species [14306]

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Top 10 Articles for Vol 85 Issue 3

Sun Selected to Implement World's Largest SAP Solution [14245]

Creating Highly Available Database Solutions [14090]

The Beginning of IT's Revolution [14255]

The Solaris[TM] 10 OS and its Least Privilege Model [14252]

Sun to Manage IT Infrastructure for Logistics Computer Services [14273]

Automating Centralized File Integrity Checks in Solaris[TM] 10 OS [14240]

Sun's Operations Management Capabilities Model [14115]

Information Lifecycle Management [14092]

Sun[TM] Crypto Accelerator 1000 and 4000 Boards Upgraded [14258]

Sun Plans to Expand Portfolio of Grid Offerings [14250]

Vol 85 Issue 5

Sun reached a milestone with one million registered licenses distributed for the Solaris[TM] 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) since January 31, when the software became available on Sun's Web site [14312].
Other news this week reports the latest benchmark results from Sun [14313] and how JPMorgan is using the Solaris OS in pilot projects [14318].

This week's newsletter introduces a new section, NetBeans[TM] , with an introduction to the new Project Coyote [14307]. The recently started Sun Standards section gives you a way to get some publications from Sun [14316].

For a visual approach to Java[TM] programming language 5.0, check out the latest Head First book [14298]. Developers interested in chip multi-threading have a how-to with code the check out [14286].

For a view of managing identity management and building trust, see Fran Howarth's take on the subject in the Features article [14292].

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Top 10 Articles for Vol 85 Issue 2

• Sun Fellow Guy Steele Developing New Programming Language [14225]
  
• Wine and the Sun JavaTM Desktop System [14170]
  
• Sun Leads in UNIXR Disk Storage Systems Shipped [14235]
  
• The Network File System Version 4 [14236]
  
• VA Hospitals Improve Patient Care with Sun RayTM Ultra-thin Clients [14139]
  
• "Sun and Carrier-Grade Linux" [14214]
  
• Sun Goes Off to the Races [14238]
  
• The JavaTM Programming Language and Microsoft .Net [14237]
  
• New Tools, Technologies Advancing Game Industry [14244]
  
• Sun Considers Singapore as Global Network Hub [14217]