Sun Announces One Million Solaris 10 Licenses Distributed in
First Two Months of Availability
Solaris 10 Sets Fourteen New World-Record Benchmarks
SANTA CLARA, Calif. Mar. 28, 2005 Underscoring the tremendous
demand for the most-advanced operating system in the industry, Sun
Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) today announced that it has
distributed more than one million registered licenses for the
Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) since Jan. 31, when the software
became available on Sun's Web site. Sun also announced that the
Solaris 10 OS has set fourteen world-record benchmarks in this same
timeframe and demonstrated application performance improvements
greater than 50 times that of previous versions of Solaris.
"The interest in Solaris 10 has exceeded our highest expectations
this is a significant milestone for Sun," said Tom Goguen, vice
president, Operating Platforms Group, Sun Microsystems. "We're
seeing approximately one download per second and our Solaris 10
customers and partners are achieving huge performance gains when
leveraging powerful new features like Dynamic Tracing and
Containers."
Sending Email Performance Continues To Spur Demand For Solaris
10
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Reading Email Earning 14 world-record performance results to date, Solaris 10
is delivering breakthrough performance and price/performance for
customers across vertical
market segments from financial
services to telecommunications. With technology advances such as
enhancements to the network stack and special optimizations for
multithreaded SPARC(R) processors and x64/x86 architectures,
Solaris 10 is powering
enterprise applications at
record speeds on Sun Fire systems and Sun Java Workstations.
Aplus.Net announces anti spam filtering services. San Diego, July, nd, Aplus.Net ( www.aplus.net ) announces the introduction of new spam filtering services today. mail accounts served by Aplus.Net and comes at no extra charge. Says Ivan Vachovsky, CEO of Aplus.Net "Aplus.Net is committed to fighting spam whenever and wherever it can. We have spent some time to come up with the most advanced technology and solution available today. mails (spam)."
Storing Email The newest 2-way 64-bit Java Virtual Machine (JVM) world record
on the SPECjbb2000 benchmark, which measures the implementation of
the JVM software, as well as the performance of the underlying
operating system and the scalability of the system's processors and
memory, demonstrates that Solaris 10 can deliver better results
than Linux. The SPECjbb2000 testing was performed on a Sun Fire
V20z server, one of a range of systems available from Sun which are
powered by the latest AMD Opteron processors, Model 252 with Direct
Connect Architecture.(1) The results were achieved using the new
Sun Studio 10 compiler software, which also delivers outstanding
performance when developing C, C++ and FORTRAN applications for
Solaris 10.
The number of daily spam attacks more than doubled in the last two months of 2004 to an average level of 1.35 million spam outbreaks per day, a new report claims. spam solutions firm Commtouch found that the level of spam outbreaks over the period sometimes exceeded 1.5 million per day. However, the company also found that the average duration of a spam outbreak shortened dramatically, from two days at the beginning of 2004 to an average of seven hours by the end of the year.
Email Software Additionally, Sun and BEA achieved new world record performance
of 4220.39 TOPS@DualNode on the industry-standard
SPECjAppServer2002 benchmark. This result on the powerful 24-way
Sun Fire E6900 servers with UltraSPARC IV 1.2GHz processors
delivered more than twice the performance of the proprietary HP
Itanium result in this category. The SPECjAppServer benchmark is
designed to test Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) that is
often used as a standard platform for development of portable,
scalable, multi-tier enterprise applications. Additional Solaris 10
benchmarks can be viewed at sun.com/solaris/benchmarks.(1)
Nyms not only combats spam, it is one more layer of protection against other email threats viruses, worms, spyware, adware, phishing scams, and more. Better than a spam filter, Nyms puts you in control of your incoming email because it uses disposable, alias addresses. When your Nyms email aliases are shared with spammers, you can simply disable that Nyms alias and stop the spam from flooding your real inbox. spam filter to pinpoint where unsolicited messages are coming from and kill spam at its source.
Antispam Software Additional Solaris 10 benchmarks can be viewed on the Net:
www.sun.com/solaris/benchmarks
There are some things that you can do to make your online experience a little bit easier. There are some ways to keep spam from ruining your day. Spam filters are one of those things. Spam filters are an extremely successful way of managing or stopping unwanted emails, but occasionally they can work too well. While they can act very vigorously to keep your inbox from receiving spam, they can also prevent you from getting many of your wanted emails as well.
Fight Spam About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Stoping Spam Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network
Is The Computer" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq:
SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength
hardware, software and services that make the Net work. Sun can be
found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide Web at
http://sun.com
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