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The new OpenSolaris-branded distribution was launched at CommunityOne (PR, GetIt); together with efforts like OpenSolaris.COM and TheObservatory it is intended to help the users of OpenSolaris complementing the developer-focused OpenSolaris.ORG.

I think will see significant increased adoption of OpenSolaris in the next few months. Other trends that will help are the increased adoption of VirtualBox (home page, vb at TA, LinuxJournal Award), the new IPS package system, and more familiarization with features like ZFS, DTrace and IPS.

Several people in GlassFish have started doing more things with OpenSolaris and we will track them through TA. Here are some useful initial pointers: • Installing OpenSolaris on VB on MacOSX. • Official OS Docs • Amitsaha's IPS Overview and official Getting Started with IPS document. • Alexis' GF v2 on OpenSolaris and official Installing GFv2 from IPS document. • Arun's JRuby on Rails an MySQL on VB

Getting the best possible GlassFish integration with operating systems (install, performance, flexibility) is a high priority for us. The work done for Ubuntu and Debian are good illustrations. Of course, as you can imagine, Solaris is no exception.

Jagadesh and Shaline have just posted an entry on using GlassFish in the context of Solaris Trusted Extensions, a seriously ruggedized Solaris install (the entry does a good job explaining what it is).

You can also elect to use GlassFish on the recently released OpenSolaris distro and its online repository (first steps here). Finally, if you're into using Zones (aka containers), this earlier article goes into how to best take advantage of global, sparse, or whole-root Zones.

It's always nice to see others combining various technologies to come up with new and interesting applications. In this case, Natiku has described how to run Project WebSynergy onto the Amazon EC2 Computing Cloud. It runs the OpenSolaris OS. This could easily be farmed out to web startups who want to get a site up and running quickly for very low cost, while retaining the ability to pay more for more CPUs/bandwidth later.

Very cool, very cheap, and very easy!

You may have seen Jonathan's note on OpenSolaris, MySQL and GlassFish being available on Amazon EC2. Details on the OpenSolaris portion are available at the EC2 Blog (Welcome, Launch and New Limits), at Dileep's Blog and at the EC2@Sun and OS@EC2 sites. For MySQL check the MySQL@EC2 site.

I know that Homer worked on the GlassFish AIM AMI but it all happened right before JavaOne and I didn't have time to check more. He told me he is writing a note on it, and I'll spotlight it when it is ready.

And thanks to Charles for some of the Links.

The reaction to Sun's Intended Acquisition of MySQL ( Jonathan's blog, Video) is very positive at the end of this first day. Some of the references are:

• Traditional Press - NetworkWorld, Forbes, Guardian, The Register, ComputerWorld, InformationWeek, NY Times, WSJ, PC World, CNet News and many more. • Analysts and Bloggers - O'Reilly, Kaj, Simon, Dana Gardner, ReadWriteWeb, Open Source Solutions, Alex Fletcher, Rod Johnson and many more, including uncountable Entries @ BSC • Discussions - TheServerSide ([1], [2], [3]), Slashdot,

I'll confess I'm slightly (but very pleasantly) surprised at the percentage of positive reactions this soon after the announcement. Also at the number of places where GlassFish is mentioned and how often the deal is compared favorably to Oracle's Acquisition of BEA.

On a personal note, I'm typing this from Orlando where MySQL has an all-employee meeting. Several of us flew here Tuesday evening for today's announcement and to talk with people. We had already met several individuals while preparing for the deal but this is a great opportunity to meet many more folks.

I'm enjoying the visit a lot; the cultures of the two companies are very compatible and yet we can learn a lot from each other. One area that MySQL does better is dealing with "isolated" employees; MySQL is geographically very distributed and there is not much a sense of "HQ" vs "non-HQ" - everybody is in a more equal footing than at Sun. I think the deal is going to work very well at many levels.

PS. At left is Sakila, the mascot of MySQL. She is a dolphin, not a fish :-)

Esta semana se celebra en San Francisco la conferencia JavaOne 2007, del 8 al 11 de Mayo. Aprovechando este gran evento, que suele tener unas tarifas de registro de alrededor de 2.000 dólares y con una asistencia esperada de 15.000 asistentes, el día previo, es decir, ayer lunes 7 de Mayo se celebró por primera vez el evento CommunityOne.

¿En que consistió este nuevo evento? La idea era tener un evento abierto y libre relacionado con las tecnologías Open Source de Sun, es decir NetBeans, GlassFish, OpenSolaris y OpenJDK principalmente. El evento contó con la contribución y participación de partners Open Source que colaboran con Sun como Apress, Caucho, Collabnet, Funambol, Genuitec, Hyperic, Icesoft, Imola, Interface21, Intland Software, JBoss, jVantage, Laszlo, RainingData, Terracotta, Thoughtworks Mingle, Vodafone BetaVine, WebTide, Xoetrope Yasu, y Zimbra. En esta primera edición se esperaba contar con unos 3000 asistentes, y los speakers estrella fueron: Tim O'Reilly, Rich Green, Ian Murdock y Tim Bray.

A ver si encuentro la URL con las presentaciones y la publico. Me gustaría poder echar un vistazo a algunas de ellas. 

Más información:

• Arun Gupta: CommunityOne / GlassFish Day Report (blogs.sun.com)

The latest distribution of OpenSolaris is Solaris Express, Developer Edition. This free distribution for the x86 architecture is intended to rev quickly and to provide the latest tools and runtimes for developers. Check this review from The Register NetBeans and GlassFish v1 are part of the Solaris Express and Sreeni's latest writeup describes how to go about downloading the pieces to create a DVD image, booting from it and then running it.

That makes 3 FOSS distros including GlassFish v1: Solaris Express, Belenix and Ubuntu's Feisty Fawn. It might be fun to predict how many we will have by the end of 2007...

I really enjoy the synergies that are emerging across our different Open Source Communities: on Friday James announced that Doc.java.sun.com now includes Java EE (and the site runs on GlassFish), and SteveL reported on a very smooth experiment Running OpenGrok on GlassFish as part of exploring moving all of OpenSolaris.ORG to GlassFish. All good example of synergies... or of Sun following the principle of Eat One's Own Dog Food.

BTW, do you know that dogs bark differently in different languages? For example, in spanish they say "guau, guau", and in english "woof, woof", and these sound very differently; and so do roosters... I looked around a bit and found this page. Enjoy!