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recap of southeast linux fest 2009

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The mixture of sessions was interesting. There were some really good ones. I think the best session I attended was an OpenSolaris/NetBeans/Glassfish/Virtualbox/ZFS session, given by a Sun employee. He was an excellent presenter, and really showed off the strengths of the technologies in a nice way. He started up enough VMs to make his OpenSolaris laptop chew into swap, and I thought it was fun to see how it dealt with that. I've heard Solaris and OpenSolaris do a lot better at avoiding and managing swapping than GNU/Linux, but I couldn't make any opinion from watching.

There is no L in Sunâ€™s LAMP

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Yesterday Sun introduced Glassfish Portfolio. Its a new stack of open source middleware products including Glassfish Enterprise Server, Glassfish ESB, Glassfish Web Space Server, and the new Glassfish Web Stack, which includes support for projects such as Tomcat, Memcached, Apache, PHP, Ruby and Python and a copy of MySQL Community.

Itâ€™s a pretty complete infrastructure stack. What it is not, however, is an integrated LAMP stack, despite Sunâ€™s reference to it as such not once but twice on its press announcement.

is sun microsystems the new novell?

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When Sun Microsystems announced financial results this week, The VAR Guy had a moment of clarity: Sun is looking more and more like the new Novell. And The VAR Guy means that in a complimentary way. Hereâ€™s why.

Basically, Sun is a much larger version of Novell. Consider the parallels between the companies: