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Oracle Solaris The latest news from the Oracle Solaris team https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/feed/entries/atom 2016-07-25T21:20:18+00:00 Apache Roller https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/entry/prepare_to_dock_oracle_solaris Prepare to dock: Oracle Solaris at DockerCon Listey-Oracle 2016-06-18T00:08:38+00:00 2016-06-18T00:08:38+00:00

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While the Oracle Solaris folk have been regularly attending the information pipe and community enabler that is DockerCon for the last few years we are really pleased to be able to join the party again, only this time we will have a booth. Drop on by to booth S11 and come chat with the engineers that are writing the code that is bringing Docker to Oracle Solaris. Find out how far along we are, how we leveraged our Oracle Solaris Zones technology and what we have planned. Most important of all you could even claim the latest in highly fashionable Beenie hats?. We are really interested in hearing what you are up to too. Hope to see you there!

 https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/entry/the_oracle_solaris_essentials_of The Oracle Solaris Essentials of Support Glynn Foster-Oracle 2016-05-20T04:35:38+00:00 2016-05-20T04:36:32+00:00
Oracle Solaris is all about making your life easier in the data center. All its technologies have been designed to solve the problems administrators experience in running a highly reliable, secure and efficient data center. They've been integrated and carefully thought through to improve the user experience, and we're continuously re-working subsystems to modernize them and adapt to new trends of application deployment in the cloud.

One of the areas of improvement that we've had much focus on over the past few years has been related to lifecycle management - making sure you can deploy Oracle Solaris securely and reliably, and that you can update it quickly to protect against the latest security vulnerabilities. We've seen technologies like the Image Packaging System (IPS), Automated Installer (AI) and Unified Archives having a massive impact in terms of agility and consistently.

Gerry Haskins, director of software development in Oracle Solaris' Revenue Product Engineering (RPE) group, has recently written two really great articles that will help you better understand Oracle Solaris maintenance from a support point of view.

The first article covers the Oracle Solaris release cadence and all you need to know about the process by which we provide updates to the platform through things like Support Repository Updates (SRUs), Critical Patch Updates (CPUs) and Interim Diagnostic Relief (IDRs) - including how we're now delivering SPARC firmware updates within IPS.

Check out Overview of Oracle Solaris Release Cadence.

The second article focuses in on Oracle Solaris 11 and how you can use IPS to update your systems with the latest software. The article covers things like understanding the package versioning, how to take advantage of package groups, and how package incorporations work to constrain your systems to a particular release train and ensure that you're running a well tested set of packages. Gerry also goes into detail on SRUs, CPUs and IDRs and how IPS is an integrated packaging and patching mechanism. Needing to find out what set of updates need to be applied to fix a particular bug or Common Vulnerability exploit (CVE)? No problem, IPS provides you all you need and you'll never need to worry 'RPM dependency hell' on Oracle Solaris.

Check out Overview of Image Packaging System in Oracle Solaris.

These are the essentials that you'll need to know, a nice extension to our previous blog post on the Oracle Solaris Cheat Sheet, the administrator's best friend. Enjoy!
 https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/entry/the_administrator_s_best_friend The Administrator's Best Friend Glynn Foster-Oracle 2016-05-18T04:49:47+00:00 2016-05-18T04:49:47+00:00
 While we've made every effort to make the administation of Oracle Solaris simple in every possible way, there are times where it's good to quickly refer back for a command or command-line option that you've forgotten. Some may scan our comprehensive, online product documentation. Others may check up on our extensive set of man pages. The advanced ones may have written some extensive scripts to allow command-line completion from their shell for the common commands they use. But there's more!

Joerg Moellenkamp has written an extensive Administration Cheat Sheet for Oracle Solaris that has been updated for Oracle Solaris 11.3. Joerg gives the command-line essentials for managing lifecycle management, services, virtualization, networking, storage, security and more. It's an excellent addition to your cubicle wall if you need to do a quick look up, or prepare for an Oracle Solaris Certification.

So next time you see Joerg, make sure to buy him a beer because I know you're going to use this one!
 https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/entry/oracle_solaris_11_free_to Oracle Solaris 11 - Free to Oracle Academy Students! Glynn Foster-Oracle 2016-05-16T23:55:43+00:00 2016-05-23T01:53:27+00:00
We're thrilled to announce that Oracle Solaris 11 has been included in the Oracle Academy program! Students of institutions who have signed up to the Institutional Membership program (of which there are over 10,000+ world wide - see the online directory), will now have free access to the latest updates and security fixes for Oracle Solaris 11 and full support through My Oracle Support for educational or research purposes.

For anyone new to Oracle Solaris, we have a huge number of introductory and advanced articles on Oracle Technology Network that will help familiarize you with all the cool features of the platform, and get you up to speed on how to administer lifecycle management, virtualization, storage, networking and security. If you've had more experience on Linux to date, make sure to take a look at our Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Oracle Solaris hands on lab that will bring you through a number of exercises to get direct hands-on experience.

We also have a ton of resources for developers to get you up to speed in building the most optimized applications for the Oracle Solaris platform using the integrated developer environment Oracle Solaris Studio. This toolchain helps you develop better applications, find coding errors or memory leaks faster, or take advantage of powerful features in the new generation of SPARC systems using Silicon Secured Memory. Make sure to give Oracle Solaris Studio a spin with a hands on lab that shows you how to use the Code Analyzer and Performance Analyzer features.

Scott Lynn, Liane Praza and Bart Smaalders recorded an 'Ask the Experts' session especially for Oracle Academy students that you should make sure to watch. They'll go through why you should learn about Oracle Solaris, some of the new features that engineering are working for, and why the combination of Oracle Solaris and SPARC is hugely differentiating in the market with the innovative Software in Silicon feature set.

Check out the membership benefits, sign up and download now! Of course there's also a broad set of other Oracle software available, free online training and certifications to take advantage of. Expand your knowledge, develop your skills and kick start your career!
 https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/entry/get_the_latest_foss_on Get the latest FOSS on Oracle Solaris 11 Glynn Foster-Oracle 2016-05-11T02:18:15+00:00 2016-05-11T02:18:16+00:00
One of the new initiatives we've launched in the last year is providing early access to new and updated Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) components in Oracle Solaris 11. We've been committed to delivering FOSS software as part of Oracle Solaris for many years now, but it's often been tricky to keep up with the frequence release cadence that many of these upstream open source communities maintain, while still trying to best the most stable and secure enterprise cloud platform.

So if you're looking for a particular new version for use in your data centers, make sure to check the FOSS Evaluation Program as we might have that version that you're looking for. Check out the April 2016 update announced on the Oracle Solaris FOSS blog and the detailed how to article on how you get install these into your environment.

If you've deployed any FOSS on Oracle Solaris 11 recently let us know your experience. Maybe you'd be interested in contributing an article on Oracle Technology Network!
 https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/entry/oracle_openworld_call_for_papers Oracle OpenWorld Call for Papers Now OPEN! Glynn Foster-Oracle 2016-04-26T03:34:47+00:00 2016-04-26T03:34:47+00:00
The Oracle OpenWorld Call for Papers is now open. OpenWorld attendees are looking for insights and improvements they can put to use in their own jobs: exciting innovations, strategies to modernize their businesses, different or easier ways to implement, unique use cases, lessons learned, the best of best practices.

The conference is on Sunday, September 18 to Thursday, September 22, 2016. There's a wide selection of different tracks to submit to, including Oracle Solaris of course. Submissions close on Monday, May 9, 11:59 p.m. PDT, so don't delay. Submit your proposal today and share your success!
 https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/entry/oracle_solaris_in_the_oracle Oracle Solaris Now Available in the Oracle Cloud Glynn Foster-Oracle 2016-04-20T02:25:54+00:00 2016-04-20T02:25:54+00:00
We are living in an on-demand world. Customers have more choice about how and where to host their business critical applications - whether on premise or in the public cloud. This unprecedented flexibility has meant that the days of waiting hours, weeks or even months to for environments of compute capacity to be created are over. IT budgets are being transformed from CAPEX spends and poor utilization to on-demand OPEX, paying for what you consume. So whether you're helping to transform your business with the next wave of cloud-native applications that can take advantage of the cloud, or still relying on more traditional enterprise applications, you'll need a cloud environment that's secure, enteprise ready and highly reliable.

Oracle is uniquely positioned in the industry by virtue of it's broad range of offerings for on-premise solutions and integrated cloud offerings. Oracle Solaris is one of the key foundations of that strategy providing a secure, mission critical platform for hosting the applications that matter to your business. We give you the most complete choice of how you want to run your business. And we are expanding that choice today.

We're announcing that Oracle Solaris is now available in the Oracle Cloud.

Customers can now create on demand Oracle Solaris VMs, at no additional cost, using the Oracle Compute Cloud Service. This service is an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offering that provides flexible and scalable computing, block storage, and networking services using a self-service portal. Whether it's shared, multi-tenant infrastructure or dedicated compute, the Oracle Cloud provides a multitude of choice with a broad range of pricing options to suit your needs.

Check out the following video for how easy it is to create on-demand Oracle Solaris environments in the Oracle Cloud.
    https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/entry/the_best_unix_operating_system The Best UNIX Operating System Out There Glynn Foster-Oracle 2016-02-04T21:33:50+00:00 2016-02-04T21:36:10+00:00
Worth checking out Mark Hurd, Oracle CEO on how he considers the Sun Microsystems acquisition to be 'fabulous' - not just for Java, but for Solaris, the best UNIX operating system out there. Nothing comes close to the amount of innovation included in this integrated platform that can run your mission critical (and non-mission critical) applications securely and reliably. Sun's technologies were very much the foundation for Oracle's current Engineered System strategy. Watch it now!
   https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/entry/focus_on_security_at_the Focus on Oracle Solaris Security at the OTN VTS Event Glynn Foster-Oracle 2016-02-01T21:06:57+00:00 2016-02-01T21:06:57+00:00

Every few months, the folks from the Oracle Technology Network host a Virtual Technology Summit (VTS). This is an opportunity to watch a bunch of technical demos and participate in hands-on-labs delivered by Oracle product experts, Oracle ACE's, and Java Champions. There are a variety of tracks including Systems, Database, Java and Middleware.

In the next VTS event, we'll be focusing on security your data center with some of the integrated security technologies included in Oracle Solaris and SPARC systems leveraging Software in Silicon.

 Title	 Speaker

 Practical Security - Hands on with Oracle Solaris	 Duncan Hardie & Glynn Foster

 SPARC, accelerating encrypted workloads since 2011!	 Erik Benner

 Secure Software - Made Simple	 Ikroop Dhillon

There are 3 VTS events to suit your geographic location - Americas, Europe, and APAC. So register now for the upcoming events and make sure to check out the agenda for the great line up of sessions that are available.

 Americas - 8th March	 Register now!

 APAC - 15th March	 Register now!

 EMEA - 5th April	 Register now!

 https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/entry/how_good_is_oracle_solaris How good is Oracle Solaris and SPARC M7? Glynn Foster-Oracle 2015-10-29T20:42:24+00:00 2015-11-02T20:56:58+00:00
With the release of Oracle Solaris 11.3 and the new SPARC M7 chip, and the list of new generation T and M series servers based on this groundbreaking chip, the performance team have been hard at work to show the advantages of the new systems. The result of which is 29 new blog posts with a significant number of world records. Here's the full list:

  Virtualized Network Performance: SPARC T7-1

  SPARC T7-4 Delivers 4-Chip World Record for SPEC OMP2012

  SPARC T7-1 Delivers 1-Chip World Records for SPEC CPU2006 Rate Benchmarks

  SAP Two-Tier Standard Sales and Distribution SD Benchmark: SPARC T7-2 World Record 2 Processors

  PeopleSoft Enterprise Financials 9.2: SPARC T7-2 World Record

  Oracle E-Business Order-To-Cash Batch Large: SPARC T7-1 World Record

  Oracle E-Business Suite Applications R12.1.3 (OLTP X-Large): SPARC M7-8 World Record

  Oracle E-Business Payroll Batch Extra-Large: SPARC T7-1 World Record

  Oracle Communications ASAP – Telco Subscriber Activation: SPARC T7-2 World Record

  PeopleSoft Human Capital Management 9.1 FP2: SPARC M7-8 World Record

  Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking: SPARC T7-1 World Record

  Oracle Stream Explorer DDOS Attack: SPARC T7-4 World Record

  Oracle Internet Directory: SPARC T7-2 World Record

  Virtualized Storage: SPARC T7-1 Performance

  ZFS Encryption: SPARC T7-1 Performance

  Live Migration: SPARC T7-2 Oracle VM Server for SPARC Performance

  SPECvirt_sc2013: SPARC T7-2 World Record for 2 and 4 Chip Systems

  SHA Digest Encryption: SPARC T7-2 Beats x86 E5 v3

  AES Encryption: SPARC T7-2 Beats x86 E5 v3

  SPECjEnterprise2010: SPARC T7-1 World Record with Single Application Server Using 1 to 4 Chips

  Neural Network Models Using Oracle R Enterprise: SPARC T7-4 Beats 4-Chip x86 E7 v3

  Graph Breadth First Search Algorithm: SPARC T7-4 Beats 4-Chip x86 E7 v2

  Graph PageRank: SPARC M7-8 Beats x86 E5 v3 Per Chip

  Yahoo Cloud Serving Benchmark: SPARC T7-4 With Oracle NoSQL Beats x86 E5 v3 Per Chip

  Hadoop TeraSort: SPARC T7-4 Top Per-Chip Performance

  Memory and Bisection Bandwidth: SPARC T7 and M7 Servers Faster Than x86 and POWER8

  In-Memory Aggregation: SPARC T7-2 Beats 4-Chip x86 E7 v2

  In-Memory Database: SPARC T7-1 Faster Than x86 E5 v3

  Real-Time Enterprise: SPARC T7-1 Faster Than x86 E5 v3

 https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/entry/new_oracle_solaris_admin_book New Oracle Solaris Admin Book Listey-Oracle 2015-10-16T10:50:43+00:00 2015-10-16T10:50:43+00:00
Great news, for all of you wanting to take a more in-depth look at all the great features in Oracle Solaris 11.2 there is a new book available "Oracle Solaris 11.2 System Administration Handbook". Available here from Amazon this invaluable tome gives you the opportunity to learn more, shamelessly stealing the synopsis:

Govern a reliable and secure enterprise cloud computing infrastructure using the detailed information contained in this Oracle Press guide. Oracle Solaris 11 System Administration Handbook offers end-to-end deployment, configuration, and management instruction. Find out how to install and update Oracle Solaris 11.2, migrate data and applications, build bare-metal and virtual networks, and tune performance. This comprehensive resource fully explains new features, including OpenStack cloud support, Unified Archive provisioning, and Oracle Solaris Zones.

Written by Harry Foxwell and our very own Glynn Foster this is a must have book for any budding or expert level system administrator. Let us know what you think of it in the comments section and also what you would like to see in the next book.

 https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/entry/oracle_solaris_at_oracle_openworld1 Oracle Solaris at Oracle OpenWorld 2015 Glynn Foster-Oracle 2015-10-05T22:53:04+00:00 2015-10-20T18:07:34+00:00
General Sessions

 General Session: Software in Silicon and SPARC Outlook—Secure, Smarter Database/Applications [GEN6421]
 Masood Heydari, SVP, Hardware Development, Oracle
 Monday, Oct 26, 11:00 a.m. | Intercontinental—Intercontinental C (5th Floor)

 General Session: Achieve Extraordinary Security and Efficiency on Premises and in the Cloud [GEN8574]
 John Fowler, Executive Vice President, Systems, Oracle
 Monday, Oct 26, 1:30 p.m. | Marriott Marquis—Salon 7/8/9 (Yerba Buena Ballroom)

 General Session: Security, Speed, Simplicity—Hybrid Cloud Present & Future with Oracle Solaris [GEN8606]
 Markus Flierl, Vice President, Oracle
 Chris Riggin, Chief IT Architect, Verizon
 Tuesday, Oct 27, 11:00 a.m. | Intercontinental—Intercontinental C (5th Floor)

Conference Sessions

 Securing Your Enterprise Cloud Data [CON8329]
 Marcus Soares, Chief Architect, UOL
 Cindy Swearingen, Senior Product Manager, Oracle
 Monday, Oct 26, 4:00 p.m. | Intercontinental—Intercontinental B (5th Floor)

 Spend Less Time Maintaining and More Time with Your Family [CON4940]
 Gerry Haskins, Director, Software Lifecycle Engineering, Oracle
 Don O'Malley, Senior Software Engineering Manager, Oracle
 Monday, Oct 26, 5:15 p.m. | Intercontinental—Intercontinental B (5th Floor)

 Secure Private Cloud Done Right with Oracle and OpenStack [CON8313]
 Glynn Foster, Oracle Solaris Product Manager, Oracle
 Jeffrey Kiely, Principal Product Manager, Oracle
 Monday, Oct 26, 5:15 p.m. | Intercontinental—Intercontinental C (5th Floor)

 Using Puppet Automation to Configure and Deploy Oracle Solaris Zones [CON3648]
 Brian Bream, Chief Technology Officer, Vaske Computer, Inc.
 Eric Steed, Sr. Virtualization Engineer, Vaske Computer, Inc.
 Tuesday, Oct 27, 12:15 p.m. | Intercontinental—Intercontinental B (5th Floor)

 Patch on Day Zero or Have a Zero Day: Secure and Safe Lifecycle Management [CON8314]
 Peter Dennis, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Oracle
 Glynn Foster, Oracle Solaris Product Manager, Oracle
 Jan Setje-Eilers, Senior Principal Engineer, Oracle
 Tuesday, Oct 27, 5:15 p.m. | Intercontinental—Intercontinental B (5th Floor)

 Making DevOps Secure with Docker [CON8724]
 Jesse Butler, Principal Software Engineer, Oracle
 Duncan Hardie, Principal Product Manager, Oracle
 Jerome Petazzoni, Docker Evangelist, Docker Inc.
 Wednesday, Oct 28, 11:00 a.m. | Intercontinental—Intercontinental B (5th Floor)

 Software in Silicon: Early Adopter Customers Share Breakthrough Results [CON9646]
 Thorsten Mühlmann, Unix Lead Architect, ivv
 Reinoud Reynders, IT Manager Infrastructure & Operations, UZ Leuven
 David Simmons, Sr. Director, Platforms Business Group, Oracle
 Krishna Tangirala, VP IT Infrastructure, B & H PhotoVideo
 Wednesday, Oct 28, 11:00 a.m. | Intercontinental—Intercontinental A (5th Floor)

 DevOps Done Right: Secure Virtualization with Oracle Solaris [CON8468]
 Duncan Hardie, Principal Product Manager, Oracle
 Fritz Wittwer, Service Engineer, Swisscom Schweiz AG
 Wednesday, Oct 28, 12:15 p.m. | Intercontinental—Intercontinental B (5th Floor)

 Developing the Platform of the Future: Oracle Solaris Engineering [CON8605]
 Nicolas Droux, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Oracle
 Darren Moffat, Senior Principal Engineer, Oracle
 Liane Praza, Solaris, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Oracle
 Joost Pronk Van Hoogeveen, Product Manager, Oracle
 Bart Smaalders, Serior Principal Software Engineer, Oracle
 Wednesday, Oct 28, 1:45 p.m. | Intercontinental—Intercontinental B (5th Floor)

 Top 10 Tips and Tricks to Unlock the Value of the Oracle Database on Oracle Solaris Systems [CON2742]
 Ken Kutzer, Principal Product Manager, Oracle
 Viraj Nr, Principal Software Engineer, Oracle
 Wednesday, Oct 28, 1:45 p.m. | Intercontinental—Intercontinental A (5th Floor)

 Customer Panel: Customer Insights into Deploying Oracle Solaris [CON8604]
 Özal Bakmaz, BroadBand Server Operations Manager, TTNET
 Scott Dickson, Principal Sales Engineer, Oracle
 Justin Domoleczny, Sr. IT Manager - Linux/Unix/Middleware Engineering, General Motors
 Emmanuel Paccoud, Technical Consultant Senior - Platform Expert, eServGlobal SAS
 Yasushi TAKI, CEO / CTO, JUSTPLAYER Co., Ltd.
 Wednesday, Oct 28, 3:00 p.m. | Intercontinental—Intercontinental B (5th Floor)

 Keeping your Compliance/Security Auditor Happy [CON8726]
 Glenn Faden, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Oracle
 Darren Moffat, Senior Principal Engineer, Oracle
 Thorsten Mühlmann, Unix Lead Architect, ivv
 Thursday, Oct 29, 10:45 a.m. | Intercontinental—Intercontinental B (5th Floor)

 Data Center Security: Ensuring Compliance in a Dynamic Data Center Environment [CON7439]
 Duane George, Sr. Director, Proactive Support, Systems, Oracle
 William Nesheim, VP, Solaris Platform Engineering, Oracle
 Thursday, Oct 29, 9:30 a.m. | Intercontinental—Intercontinental C (5th Floor)

 Oracle Solaris: Building a Secure Platform-as-a-Service Hybrid Cloud [CON9757]
 Scott Lynn, Product Line Director, Oracle Solaris Product Management, Oracle
 Robert Milkowski, Vice President, Unix Engineering, Morgan Stanley & Co International Limited (London, GB)
 Thursday, Oct 29, 12:00 p.m. | Intercontinental—Intercontinental B (5th Floor)

 The DBaaS You've Been Waiting for—Oracle Database, Oracle Solaris, SPARC, and OpenStack [CON8354]
 Mehmet Kurtoglu, TT Group - BroadBand Database Operations Manager, TTNET
 Onder Ozbek, Product Manager, Oracle
 Eric Saxe, Director of Engineering, Oracle
 Thursday, Oct 29, 1:15 p.m. | Intercontinental—Intercontinental B (5th Floor)

 The Cutting Edge of Technology: Deploying a Secure Cloud with OpenStack [CON3225]
 Detlef Drewanz, Master Principal Sales Consultant, Oracle
 Eric Saxe, Director of Engineering, Oracle
 Thursday, Oct 29, 2:30 p.m. | Intercontinental—Intercontinental B (5th Floor)

 The Cutting Edge of Technology: Deploying a Secure Cloud with OpenStack [CON3225]
 Detlef Drewanz, Master Principal Sales Consultant, Oracle
 Eric Saxe, Director of Engineering, Oracle
 Thursday, Oct 29, 2:30 p.m. | Intercontinental—Intercontinental B (5th Floor)

Hands on Labs

 Deploying Oracle Solaris Cluster with the Automated Installer Feature [HOL1931]
 Amir Javanshir, Principal software engineer, Oracle
 Eve Kleinknecht, Principal Product Manager, Oracle
 Tuesday, Oct 27, 10:15 a.m. | Hotel Nikko—Monterey

 Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Solaris—a Complete Cloud Environment in Minutes [HOL10357]
 Scott Dickson, Principal Sales Engineer, Oracle
 Glynn Foster, Oracle Solaris Product Manager, Oracle
 Tuesday, Oct 27, 4:00 p.m. | Hotel Nikko—Nikko Ballroom I

 Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Solaris—Fast, Secure, and Compliant App Deployment [HOL10358]
 Scott Dickson, Principal Sales Engineer, Oracle
 Glynn Foster, Oracle Solaris Product Manager, Oracle
 Wednesday, Oct 28, 10:15 a.m. | Hotel Nikko—Nikko Ballroom I

 Automating Oracle Solaris Administration with Puppet [HOL10359]
 Geoffrey Gardella, Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, Oracle
 Cindy Swearingen, Senior Product Manager, Oracle
 Thursday, Oct 29, 9:30 a.m. | Hotel Nikko—Nikko Ballroom I

 How to Build a Hadoop Cluster Using OpenStack [HOL1598]
 Ekine Akuiyibo, Software Engineer, Oracle
 Thursday, Oct 29, 9:30 a.m. | Hotel Nikko—Monterey

 Build Your Own Cloud Environment with Oracle Solaris 11 RAD and REST [HOL6663]
 Gary Wang, Manager, Oracle
 Yu Wang, Software Engineer, Oracle
 Xiao-song Zhu, Principal Software Engineer, Oracle
 Monday, Oct 26, 3:30 p.m. | Hotel Nikko—Nikko Ballroom I

Theatre Sessions

 From DevOps to Production with Docker and the Oracle Solaris Zones Feature [THT10970]
 Duncan Hardie, Principal Product Manager, Oracle
 Monday, Oct 26, 12:30 p.m. | Geek Speak Theater, Servers and Storage DEMOgrounds, Moscone South

 Avoid the Compliance Hangover with Oracle Solaris [THT10989]
 Darren Moffat, Senior Principal Engineer, Oracle
 Tuesday, Oct 27, 4:30 p.m. | Geek Speak Theater, Servers and Storage DEMOgrounds, Moscone South

 Bringing Security, Speed, and Simplicity to the Cloud [THT11006]
 Scott Lynn, Product Line Director, Oracle Solaris Product Management, Oracle
 Wednesday, Oct 28, 12:00 p.m. | Geek Speak Theater, Servers and Storage DEMOgrounds, Moscone South

 Oracle Developer Cloud Made Simple: How to Build an OpenStack Developer Cloud [THT11007]
 Joseph Raja, Sr. Manager Software Development, Oracle
 Wednesday, Oct 28, 12:30 p.m. | Geek Speak Theater, Servers and Storage DEMOgrounds, Moscone South

 Test Oracle Solaris Server Running SAP with the New Compliance Tool [THT11011]
 Hans-Juergen Denecke, Principal Software Engineer, Oracle
 Wednesday, Oct 28, 2:30 p.m. | Geek Speak Theater, Servers and Storage DEMOgrounds, Moscone South

Meet the Experts

 Meet the Oracle Solaris Engineers - Monday
 Monday, Oct 26 @ 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | 5th floor, Intercontinental Hotel

 Meet the Oracle Solaris Engineers - Tuesday
 Tuesday, Oct 27 @ 3:15 PM - 4:00 PM | 5th floor, Intercontinental Hotel

 Meet the Oracle Solaris Engineers - Wednesday
 Wednesday, Oct 28 @ 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 5th floor, Intercontinental Hotel

 You can find all the abstracts of the above sessions at our Focus on Oracle Solaris document, and all the rest of the Oracle OpenWorld 2015 content in the session catalog. So join us for what's going to be a great event!
 https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/entry/oracle_solaris_11_3_at Oracle Solaris 11.3 at OTN Virtual Technology Summit Glynn Foster-Oracle 2015-09-08T22:35:22+00:00 2015-09-08T22:35:22+00:00
Next week the Oracle Technology Network guys will be hosting thie next virtual technology summit event. This is an opportunity to tune into a bunch of technical sessions, including content on DBaaS, Java, WebLogic, Oracle Solaris and ZFS storage, Puppet and Linux. We will be hosting an Oracle Solaris session to talk about some of the new things that we've introduced in Oracle Solaris 11.3, including OpenStack and Docker and how we're continuing to work to make Oracle Solaris a great cloud platform capable of both horizontal and vertical scale with a real point of differentiation. Check out the rest of the agenda here.

 We'll be running 3 separate events for different timezones - Americas, Europe and Asia/Pacific. Register now and join us!

AMER: September 16th - 9:30am to 1pm PST - Register now!

EMEA: September 23rd - 9:30am to 1pm BST - Register now!

APAC: September 30th - 9:30am to 1pm IST - Register now!

 https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/entry/docker_coming_to_oracle_solaris Docker coming to Oracle Solaris Listey-Oracle 2015-07-30T14:21:39+00:00 2015-07-30T18:55:43+00:00
It seems like you can't stop the good news at the moment. Hopefully you've already seen the announcement about Oracle joining the Open Container Initiative; to follow that appetiser today we announced that we will be bringing Docker over to Oracle Solaris.

For me the last year or so has been fascinating as the other parts of the industry first discovered and then got really excited about OS virtualization and containers, something we've had in Oracle Solaris for a long time. The move to the cloud, the rise of DevOps, microservices and all the ecosystem around that just seems like the perfect storm for container adoption. Could it be the silver bullet that some IT people are looking? Possibly, it certainly is a significant step in the right direction. On a personal level it is also satisfying to see a technology I have so much personal faith in go "mainstream".

Which brings us to our own mature container technology Oracle Solaris Zones (originally called Solaris Containers). It started out being used as a virtual environment for developers but its zero overhead, scalability and - very important in today's climate - high security meant it soon moved to facilitating consolidation and running every kind of app, from small web servers to gigantic databases. Our customers then showed their smarts and brought business agility to the picture with things like rapid deployment and flying zones, extending the value of zones in the data center. Just recently we had an addition to the family, Kernel Zones which, unsurprisingly gives you a zone with an independent kernel. You can now check them out doing secure live migration in our Oracle Solaris 11.3 Beta release. Finally (well I can't mention everything we've done that would be a book not a blog) it all underpins the Oracle Openstack for Oracle Solaris distribution we made available.

And so we come to our latest adventure and our announcement that we will bring Docker over to Oracle Solaris. The combination of Docker and Oracle Solaris is particularly nice because on the one side Oracle Solaris delivers a great undercloud: secure, speedy and simple. And on the other Docker helps get your apps distributed, packages them up, makes them available to all, and avoids inconsistencies across different platforms in a way that is open. Now you can get your applications securely into production faster than ever.

It's great to join the Docker party, I'm certainly looking forward to working with the Docker community and watching this project grow and develop. Hopefully you'll join us on the ride.

 https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/entry/oracle_joins_the_open_container Oracle Joins the Open Container Initiative Scott Lynn-Oracle 2015-07-25T06:15:47+00:00 2015-07-25T06:15:47+00:00
As you may have heard, Oracle has joined the Open Container Initiative (OCI). We are happy to see an open standard being established for container technologies. We feel containers have some real advantages for cloud deployments when used properly, and we see this as an opportunity to bring our experience with containers to the community. You see, our interest in container technologies didn't happen recently. We've been working on them for more than 10 years.

I find it amusing that the industry has come full circle on containers. With the OCI and technologies like Docker, we've comeback to application containers, which is where Solaris originally started with zones.

When I was a kernel engineer in the early 1990's, we used chroot(1) to create build environments so that the build wouldn't modify the system we were running on. That worked, but it didn't prevent me from accidentally performing "rm –rf *" as 'root' one night at 2am working against a deadline and not realizing I was not in the chroot environment. (Ouch!) My admin team friends never let me live that one down.

Then, there were BSD Jails. They were the next step in container technologies. They helped prevent those kinds of stupid user mistakes by partitioning a system up into a virtualized environment.

In 2005, Sun Microsystems introduced containers in Solaris 10, called Solaris Zones. Originally, the engineers wanted to build lightweight application containers. This was at a time when the industry was moving toward virtual machines, and it was decided that a full OS container would be better.

Over time, we added great capabilities to Solaris 10 Zones like resource management and exclusive IP Stacks. Security has always been a focus for Solaris and was one of the driving reasons for containers as a technology. Now, you didn't need to share the stack any longer. We embedded those capabilities into Trusted Solaris. Oracle certified Solaris Zones as a hard partition boundary. So, you could run the Oracle Database in a Solaris Zone and reduce your license costs and only use the hardware you needed; a benefit that's still in use today.

The work didn't stop there; we introduced other types of zones, which we use today to support older releases of Oracle Solaris in a zone. And there was even a time when Solaris supported versions of Linux in a zone.

After the Oracle acquisition of Sun Microsystems, the rate of innovation accelerated. Oracle infused new life (and money) into (now) Oracle Solaris development. The Zones team grew significantly.

With the first release of Oracle Solaris 11 11/11 (Yes, we really did that), we gave zones the ability to create secure virtual networks with our built-in network virtualization, code named "Crossbow".

Continuing on the theme of security, with Oracle Solaris 11, you could delegate administration for Oracle Solaris Zones. You no longer had to give the "Zone Administrator" administrator privileges for the entire system.

We added the ability to update and rollback zones seamlessly with the Boot Environments made possible with the integration of ZFS as the root file system. This meant user errors could simply be rolled back rather than having to hand unroll changes or take backups for every change that was made to a system or a zone. But one of my favorite capabilities of zones was the Immutable Zone! With Immutable Zones, you can make a Zone read-only (or partially read-only) so that not even the almighty "root" can modify it... Hmm... Too bad we didn't have zones and ZFS when I was a new engineer!

Amazingly, that's only a few of the highlights of zones in Oracle Solaris 11 11/11. There are many, many more.

Oracle Solaris 11.1 was released about one year after Solaris 11 and we added zones on shared storage (ZOSS). ZOSS allows you to host a zone on a remote disk.

About 18 months after the release of Oracle Solaris 11.1, we released Oracle Solaris 11.2. This was a milestone release for the Oracle Solaris Zones Team (now known as the Oracle Solaris Virtualization Team). Speed has also always been a critical motivating factor for containers. But, with that speed, there's a tradeoff with containers. That is flexibility. With containers, you share the underlying kernel. So, when you need to patch a container, you patch all the containers on a system at the same time, and then you need to reboot the system, and thus, take all the containers down at the same time! There go your SLAs!

It was about the time that we were releasing Oracle Solaris 11.2 that containers began to get traction as a viable virtualization technology for cloud. I remember reading an article while I was waiting in an airport lounge that said that containers were going to "save the cloud." I found it ironic that this person had just seemingly come to the conclusion that full virtual machines had a significant amount of overhead that was impacting efficiency of cloud technologies.

I found this particularly funny because I was about to get on an airplane to go tell hundreds of people about 11.2 and a new type of container our team had built into Oracle Solaris 11.2 that acts like a type-2 hypervisor. We call them "Kernel Zones." So, you are able to run a full kernel in a container, solving one of the biggest problems container technologies have. But even more importantly, our brilliant engineers managed to make the new kernel zones have only marginally more overhead on the system than what we now call a "Native Zone." So, you get the performance of a native zone (container) and the flexibility of a type-2 hypervisor for Oracle Solaris without the hypervisor overhead.  You can read more about kernel zones here.

But kernel zones, while great, aren't the entire picture. In Oracle Solaris 11.2, we also gave you the ability to reconfigure a Zone while it was running. No more reboots to add memory, disk, CPU, etc.! When you combine that capability with Oracle Database running in an Oracle Solaris Zone, you have the ability to do capacity on demand for the Oracle Database. Allowing multiple Oracle Databases to share a single system in a secure way that doesn't impact their performance. That's just cool.

In Oracle Solaris 11.2, we also gave you a full distribution of OpenStack, now called Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Solaris, where we tightly integrated both Oracle Solaris Zones and kernel zones into OpenStack Nova compute.

The final piece to the Oracle Solaris 11.2 puzzle with Zones is Unified Archives. Zones is integrated with Unified Archives. So, you can snapshot a running Zone, and redeploy it elsewhere easily, but because of the integration, you can resize the Zone as it's being deployed and change the type of virtualization too. So, your dev/test environment is only a 2 vCPU Zone with 2GB of RAM. But you want to deploy it into a much larger 128 vCPU/8TB Immutable Kernel Zone? Engineers use virtual machines, but your production environments use containers or the other way around? No Problem! Just change the virtualization type and/or the size as your needs demand.

Earlier this month, we announced Oracle Solaris 11.3 Beta. You can download it here. In Oracle Solaris 11.3, we give you secure live migration. What makes our live migration "secure?" We automatically offload the Zone to the processor crypto engines as it's being transmitted from the source. Then, on the destination, we decrypt it via the same hardware automatic hardware offload. Meaning that the Zone is secure during the migration, and there is nearly no performance penalty to do it. Making security simple is one of the important things we focus on. The more complicated security is, the less likely people will get it right. Here's just one way we make it simple to be secure.

Now, with the Open Container Initiative, we have the opportunity to take all of that technology we've been building into Oracle Solaris Zones, and apply them to the original concept zones were born out of, application containers. It's been more than 10 years in the making, but we've come back to our roots.

It's going to be interesting to see where we go next and where this all takes us. We look forward to being a part of the Open Container Initiative.

Keep an eye out for some more news coming very soon.
 https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/entry/11_3_bloglist_the_sequel Oracle Solaris 11.3 Blog Posts, Part Two Larry Wake -Oracle 2015-07-13T15:00:00+00:00 2015-07-30T22:40:09+00:00
We've got another wave of blog posts related to last week's beta release of Oracle Solaris 11.3. (If you haven't seen the first round of 30+ posts, feel free to take a look at those, too.)

General

Oracle Solaris 11.3 Beta is now available - Caryl Tekvorian

Solaris 11.3 Beta が公開されました - Daisuke Homma

 Oracle Solaris 11.3 Beta freigegeben - Franz Haberhauer

Developers

Named threads in Oracle Solaris 11.3 - Chad Mynhier

Virtual Address Reservation in Solaris 11.3 - User8675309

APIs for handling per-thread signals in Solaris - Sal Nanduri

Solaris 11.3: Optimized Shared Memory (OSM) - Jonathan Adams

OpenStack

Upgrading Solaris Engineering's OpenStack Cloud - Dave Miner

OpenStack Juno - Flat Networking and Fixed IP Addresses - Scott Dickson (NEW July 19)

Systems Management

rcapd enhancements in Solaris 11.3 - Puneet Pruthi

Cron Begone: Predictable Task Scheduling - Dan Krasinski

Solaris 11.3 beta: Changes to bundled software packages - Alan Coopersmith

Periodic and scheduled services with SMF - Glynn Foster

Creating Scheduled Services in Oracle Solaris - Dan Krasinski (NEW July 30)

Virtualization

 Kernel zone suspend now goes zoom! - Mike Gerdts

 Managing Orphan Zone Boot Environments - Puneet Pruthi

 Different time in different zones - Abhijeeth Nuthan

 Secure multi-threaded live migration for kernel zones - Mike Gerdts

 Shared Storage on NFS for Kernel Zones - Susan Kamm-Worrell

 https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/entry/solaris_11_3_bloglist Here's Your Oracle Solaris 11.3 List of Blog Posts Larry Wake -Oracle 2015-07-07T19:02:01+00:00 2015-07-15T23:16:29+00:00
 Following this morning's beta release of Oracle Solaris 11.3, we've got a new crop of informative posts about its new crop of features.

(UPDATE: and there's more, in a second wave of posts!)

(If you feel like this isn't enough, or you just want to make sure you've done your homework before diving in, you could check out about 100 earlier posts about Oracle Solaris 11.2 -- see list part 1 and part 2).

Thanks as always to Glynn Foster for his valiant efforts in finding and tracking all the posts.

General

Release of Solaris 11.3 Beta - Markus Flierl

Oracle Solaris 11.3 Beta Now Available! - Glynn Foster

Oracle Solaris 11.3: Securing and Simplifying the Enterprise Cloud - Larry Wake

Database

Oracle Instant Client: now available in IPS - James McPherson

Developers

Better performing pthread reader-writer locks for NUMA architectures - Sai Nanduri

OpenStack

Upgrading OpenStack from Havana to Juno - Drew Fisher

What's new in Solaris OpenStack Juno Neutron - Girish Moodalbail

Configuring the Neutron L3 Agent in Solaris Openstack Juno - Girish Moodalbail

Oracle Solaris gets OpenStack Juno Release - Glynn Foster

OpenStack Juno in Solaris 11.3 Beta - Eric Saxe

Security and Compliance

New Security Extensions in Oracle Solaris 11.3 - Kris Kooi

OpenSSL on Oracle Solaris 11.3 - Misaki Miyashita

Customising Solaris Compliance Policies - Darren Moffat

Solaris new system calls: getentropy(2) and getrandom(2) - Darren Moffat

Applying Rights Profiles to RAD Modules in Oracle Solaris 11.3 - Glenn Faden

PF for Solaris - Sasha Nedvedicky

Solaris Kernel Zones Verified Boot - Dan Anderson

Solaris 11.3: New Immutable Global Zone file-mac-profile: dynamic-zones - Casper Dik

Solaris 11.3: New per-share, per-instance reserved port property for NFS - Casper Dik

OpenSSH in Solaris 11.3 - Darren Moffat

Systems Management

Introduction to svcbundle(1M) - Tom Whitten

Remote Administration with RAD and Oracle Solaris 11 - Glynn Foster

New flowadm features in Solaris 11.3 - Krishna Yenduri

Private VLAN in Solaris 11.3 - Krishna Yenduri

Solaris 11.3: rtc(1m) no longer warps the time by default - Casper Dik

Virtualization

 Introducing Secure Live Migration - Duncan Hardie

New Features in Oracle Solaris Zones - Duncan Hardie

PV IPoIB in Kernel Zones in Solaris 11.3 - Ram Vepa

ZFS

 Changes to ZFS ARC Memory Allocation in 11.3 - Eric Lowe

Welcome to Oracle Solaris 11.3 ZFS - Cindy Swearingen

To find out who's who in the Oracle Solaris blogosphere, see the blogroll (which is also conveniently linked to over in the righthand column).

 https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/entry/solaris_11_3_beta Oracle Solaris 11.3: Securing and Simplifying the Enterprise Cloud Larry Wake -Oracle 2015-07-07T15:00:00+00:00 2015-07-07T15:28:45+00:00
 This morning, we've opened up access to the beta release of Oracle Solaris 11.3. If you've been following along (and if not, why not?), you know there have been some big advances in Oracle Solaris 11, including lightning-fast intelligent provisioning and maintenance, and some key additions to our already highly-regarded "defense in depth" security.

Most notable for the latter is the work we've done to simplify compliance checking and mitigation, making it possible for administrators to quickly and easily check system security configurations against industry standards, and get a "report card" showing compliance, with guidance for any areas that may need addressing.

Oh, and did I mention fully-integrated OpenStack? This is a win in two ways: it not only brings access to the fastest growing open cloud platform to Oracle Solaris users, it brings the incredible breadth of Oracle Solaris enterprise capabilities to the fingertips of OpenStack users.

…and that of course brings to mind some of the above-mentioned Oracle Solaris 11 features, such as built-in, zero-overhead virtualization, a new and super-powerful Unified Archive capability for rapid, safe, compliant deployment, and all the things we've done in terms of performance and administrative ease to make Oracle Solaris the best platform for deploying both Oracle's own and 3rd party software.

So what's left to do? In this beta release, you'll find we're taking those capabilities and making them even better.

OpenStack: We've moved forward to the OpenStack Juno release, and also done some behind-the-scenes work to make it easy to continue to bring you new OpenStack goodness quickly and reliably.

Learn more at the Oracle OpenStack blog

Virtualization: In Oracle Solaris 11.2, we introduced "Kernel Zones", making it possible to deliver hypervisor agility while still maintaining the low overhead and ease of administration you expect from Zones. In 11.3, we introduce secure live migration for Kernel Zones, live zone reconfiguration, and verified boot.

And, we've extended the new Zones on Shared Storage (ZOSS) capabilities. You can now place zones on FC-SAN, iSCSI, or NFS devices.

Oracle Solaris 11.3 is all about "more", so now you have more flexibility and more security in your virtualization.

Database: If you're an Oracle Database fan, you know we've been giving you "more" for years: more observability, more performance, more flexible administration. Now we're also giving you "less" — less down time. We've slashed database startup and shutdown times. These are not only faster than it's ever been on Solaris; it's faster—a lot faster—than on any other platform.

Security: We've extended the compliance capabilities mentioned above, so that you can more easily tailor compliance policy configurations to suit your site's requirements. Oracle Solaris and Oracle Solaris Studio are also ready for Software in Silicon application data integrity (ADI). To learn more about this and start working with it today, visit the SWiS Cloud.

Data Management: You've already come to know and love what Oracle Solaris brings to the table with the first 21st century filesystem, ZFS. In Oracle Solaris 11.3, we extend its built-in compression capabilities to include LZ4 support, we give you the ability to compare snapshots recursively, and have introduced a wealth of scalability and performance improvements to make it faster than ever. We've also enhanced its monitoring features, and upgraded its built-in SMB support.

There's more than this, but this should give you a taste of what we've got in store for you today. You can download it now, and take a look at the "What's New" document to see what we're doing to make your data center cloud-ready, secure, fast, and simple.

Learn more: Oracle Solaris 11.3 beta

 Get the software: download page

 https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/entry/oracle_db_in_openstack_catalog Oracle Database Helps to Premiere New OpenStack Community App Catalog Larry Wake -Oracle 2015-05-19T16:10:34+00:00 2015-05-19T16:15:18+00:00
This morning at the Vancouver summit, the OpenStack Foundation announced its Community App Catalog, a new service that makes it easy for developers to share their applications and developer tools for OpenStack clouds. (Which of course in turn makes it easy for admins to find, obtain and update software.)

We're pleased that one of the charter entries in the catalog is Oracle Database 12c, with the Oracle Multitenant option, making it easy for admins to deploy Pluggable Databases and associated applications.

(If any of this sounds familiar, it's because it's the logical follow-on to the announcement we made on Friday.)

Want to find out more? Talk to the Oracle folks at booth P9 at the Marketplace Expo, and come see Markus Flierl's talk at 2:50 this afternoon, in Room 116/117.

Keep up-to-date year round on all things Oracle OpenStack at the Oracle OpenStack blog.

 https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/entry/solaris_openstack_federated_identity Oracle Solaris and OpenStack Keystone Federated Identity Larry Wake -Oracle 2015-05-18T16:27:24+00:00 2015-05-18T16:27:24+00:00
 As this week's OpenStack Summit moves into high gear in Vancouver, the OpenStack Foundation has highlighted a group of companies, including Oracle, that have committed to support the new federated identity capabilities in the upcoming OpenStack Kilo release.

This is yet another step forward in simplifying cloud management and increasing interoperability, goals that are very high on the Oracle Solaris team's priority list.

If you're at the Summit, you can learn more about this announcement and other Oracle Solaris / OpenStack news at booth P9 at the Marketplace Expo. (And don't forget to attend Solaris VP Markus Flierl's talk at 2:50 tomorrow.)

 https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/entry/solaris_and_openstack_murano_dbaas Solaris and Mirantis Simplify OpenStack DBaaS Provisioning Larry Wake -Oracle 2015-05-15T17:42:51+00:00 2015-05-15T17:48:04+00:00
Today Oracle and Mirantis announced a collaboration to make it even easier to use Oracle Solaris and OpenStack for private cloud Database as a Service (DBaaS) deployments, via the OpenStack Murano application catalog project.

Murano is designed to let admins create a library of cloud-ready application services, simplifying the deployment of on-demand services for developers and end users. The combination of enterprise-grade Oracle Solaris and OpenStack as the foundation of these services now gets an ease-of-use boost for people wanting to use Oracle Database 12c and its multitenant capabilities to securely provision multiple Pluggable Databases and applications with just a few clicks.

We'll be demonstrating this next week at the Vancouver OpenStack Summit -- come see the experts at Oracle's booth P9, and Mirantis' booth P7. Also, don't forget to see Markus Flierl's presentation at the summit on Tuesday at 2:50 PM: "Making OpenStack Secure and Compliant for the Enterprise."

This collaboration with Mirantis is the first result of our ongoing work with the community to bring Oracle enterprise applications to OpenStack; keep watching here and on the Oracle OpenStack blog for more news in the future.

 https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/entry/solaris_openstack_vancouver_2015 Oracle Solaris at OpenStack Summit in Vancouver Larry Wake -Oracle 2015-04-27T15:47:00+00:00 2015-04-27T15:47:00+00:00

Oracle is a premier sponsor for the upcoming OpenStack Summit in Vancouver. We'll have representation from teams all over the company -- including Oracle Solaris, of course. There's going to be lots to share and discover; will you be there? Register today.

When you're at the conference, be sure to see Oracle Solaris engineering VP Markus Flierl's talk:

Making OpenStack secure and compliant for the enterprise
Tuesday, May 19
2:50 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Room 116 / 117

As you might imagine, security, compliance, and the cloud are hot topics these days, so this promises to be an interesting session. But we've been working on a lot more than that, so make sure you get a chance to talk with the team to find out what else is in store. You'll find them at booth P9 on the Marketplace Expo floor.

 To stay up-to-date with all things OpenStack at Oracle, be sure to follow the Oracle OpenStack blog.

OpenStack Summit Vancouver 2015
May 18-22, 2015
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 https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/entry/oracle_openworld_2015_call_for Oracle OpenWorld 2015 Call for Proposals: Don't Panic, But... Larry Wake -Oracle 2015-04-24T14:59:59+00:00 2015-04-28T23:57:50+00:00
UPDATE: DEADLINE EXTENDED! You now have until May 6th! So, now there's absolutely no reason not to share your story.

I don't want to freak you out, but: you're running out of time!

Where'd everybody go?

But it's OK. Really, it is. Because you can do this. Trust me. It's not too late. You've got it.

What do you need to do? Just send us a simple outline of something cool and Oracle Solaris-related to talk about at the upcoming Oracle OpenWorld conference, taking place October 25-29 in beautiful San Francisco, California.

We're not looking for a paper or a presentation (yet); just your idea. If it's approved, you get a free conference pass, and the opportunity to hang out with your peers and luminaries from the Oracle development teams, learning lots of valuable insights that will make you a hero to your organization (this is the part you should make sure to stress to your management.)

What are we looking for? We'd love to hear about ways you've used Oracle Solaris technologies to solve a thorny problem, implement a new service, or help you use other Oracle or non-Oracle products. Are you an Oracle partner? Tell everyone how Oracle Solaris and your product saved the day for you and your customers. (If you want to see some of the topics others have presented on, take a look at the Oracle Solaris sessions from 2014.)

These are just some ideas; let them be a springboard for your own creativity. If you've got a great story to tell, we can work with you to help bring it to life at the conference.

Are there more details? There sure are! Learn more and sign up at the Oracle OpenWorld Call for Proposals web site.

But you need to do it by Wednesday, April 29th May 6th! Go!

(Oh, and if you just want to hear all the other great sessions, that's cool, too. Registration is now open!)

PS: One more tidbit -- 11 Tips on Getting Your Abstract Accepted

 https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/entry/solaris_puppet_webcast Webinar: Learn More About Oracle Solaris and Puppet Larry Wake -Oracle 2015-04-23T15:47:45+00:00 2015-04-23T15:47:45+00:00 You may already know that the popular configuration management system Puppet is now integrated into Oracle Solaris (to much excitement). But do you know everything there is to know about how this can simplify your life? Here's your chance to find out more.
On this coming Tuesday, April 28, IOUG will be hosting a webinar: Managing Oracle Solaris Systems with Puppet, featuring Glynn Foster from the Oracle Solaris team. If you're new to Puppet, here's how you can discover more about what it is; if you've been using it with other systems, you can see what's manageable in Oracle Solaris and what the recommended best practices are.

Puppet integration is just one more way that Oracle Solaris 11 continues to simplify enterprise computing, and makes it easier than ever to incorporate Oracle Solaris into your data center. Register today, and join Glynn on Tuesday to see what's new.

IOUG Webinar: Managing Oracle Solaris Systems with Puppet
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
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 https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/entry/sparc_and_the_future SPARC: (Still) Not Dead, Since 1989 Larry Wake -Oracle 2015-03-02T18:10:31+00:00 2015-07-08T15:08:24+00:00 Okay, I wanted to talk about IEEE's recent event honoring SPARC; but, before I even get started, I should address a couple of points about the title.

First: when I've written before about our technology history, I've sometimes been asked, "Should you really be talking about how old such-and-such a thing is?"

Not even a problem here. As far as current enterprise processors are concerned, SPARC's still the new kid on the block:

x86? 1978.

Mainframes? Still around, as you know. Built on an architecture announced in 1964.

IBM POWER? 1990.

And yes: I see that hand waving frantically in the back: "WAIT! WAIT! But why does the title say '1989'? Wasn't SPARC introduced in 1987?!"

Well, yes. Yes, it was. Gold star for you!

But it's been not dead since 1989.

A PROUD TRADITION OF BEING NOT AT ALL DEAD CONTINUES
In 1989, I'd just joined Sun, after several years as a customer. I was of course up on all the news about the brand new SPARCstation 1, and I was excited to learn what was coming next.

Which was a full-frontal assault from our competitors.

Not to blame them; I mean, here we were, the fairly-new guys (only 5 years old at the time SPARC was announced)—and we dared to come out with an entirely new processor architecture?

And this is where, two years in, we started to hear people (well, our competitors) say: SPARC is dead! Never going anywhere.

HP was probably the leader in death-knell pronouncements, because they'd just bought Apollo, which had a line of "SPARC-killer" workstations based on the PRISM processor. Those faded out right about the same time I found out where the coffee supplies were in the office.

But that's OK, because HP had a new line of "Snake" workstations, which would totally crush SPARC! Those did a bit better; the underlying chip hung on long enough to become the processor that HP killed in favor of Itanium. SPARC-crushing: not so much.

Next up was DEC Alpha, which was—you guessed it—going to be the end of SPARC. (My favorite DEC presentation tidbit from back in the day: the transition from VAX to Alpha was going to be E-Z ...because they could both read the same plaintext data files ! I'm not making this up.) Alpha's still around, technically, as is Itanium. SPARC killing, though: not achieved.

But there's more to this story than just sheer survival—SPARC has a habit of becoming the leader in technologies other companies had to scramble to match: RISC computing, extreme chip multithreading, and now Software in Silicon. SPARC stays not-dead the way any technology does: continuous innovation.

OK… but what's the next reason for it to be not-dead?

How about four?

FOUR REASONS TO BET ON SPARC

1. Oracle and this other guy named Larry

A lot of people were skeptical—very skeptical—about what was going to happen to Sun's hardware business after the acquisition. (That's OK; some of us at Sun were kind of interested in that, too.)

Larry Ellison answered that pretty boldly on the day the deal closed, laying out a roadmap for SPARC/Solaris systems. How'd we do on that? Not too bad:

Oracle's strategy is to be in a business for the long haul, and nothing shows that more dramatically than what has happened with SPARC since then—moving beyond "not dead" to "holy…". Oracle's intensified efforts on both SPARC and Solaris are demonstrably paying off, in a big way, at the same time our main enterprise competitors seem to have lost their way.

2. RISC
RISC—Reduced Instruction Set Computing—was a then-obscure concept that Bill Joy championed in the mid-'80s, resulting in Sun developing the SPARC architecture. The idea's very simple: bet your silicon real estate on the instructions that do you the most good. As big an idea as that was then, it's even bigger now.

Here's why: it's the best way to deal in silicon with a reality we've been living for decades: most compute tasks today are ludicrously over-provisioned on a single processor. An architecture based on simplified processing units lets you put more flexible compute on a single chip, for less money, less power, less cooling.

By putting more compute units on a single chip, instead of deploying a lot of low-performance systems in your data center, with redundant support hardware, you can now put all that compute in a more cost-effective system. You drive down cost yet further, and you drive down latency, the real enemy of performance today.

3. Writing to a chip? You still do that?
Back when I joined Sun, rolling out a new processor architecture was considered to be audacious. Building a whole new ecosystem was challenging, and optimizations for a particular chip/OS combination were hard-fought battles only won by the most brilliant developers.

This hasn't completely gone away, but it's not what you, the developer/operator, do any more. You're going to chunk away at much higher layers of abstraction, and let our campus full of folks in Santa Clara take care of the optimizations. Our deal with you is: we'll build and co-engineer awesome hardware, operating systems, software and developer suites, and you use it to build, run, and maintain the services you need.

Bottom line: if you can do it, you can do it on SPARC. And what we do makes it better.

4. Solaris
You didn't think I was going to miss that one, did you? This is a Solaris blog, after all.

The combination of chip multithreading and virtualization has turned the concept of data center performance exactly upside down. Instead of worrying about how to get enough power to a single application, the challenge is to how to get enough applications onto the power you have.

SPARC/Solaris solves this challenge brilliantly, with an unmatched combination of enterprise dependability and cloud agility. The strengths that have made Solaris the "go to" OS for enterprise computing continue to get even better, and now we bake in things like OpenStack, built-in virtualization, SDN, and compliance tools to make your life easier, and your applications rock-solid and wicked fast.

ONWARD TO THE SECOND INNING

There's a tendency to think that we're always at the end of the game, when we're really only in the first inning. If you look at the history of SPARC, you see competitors who wanted customers to think the game was over, before most of the crowd had even settled in their seats.

A few days ago, IEEE celebrated the beginning of SPARC, and that gives us a chance to talk about where that's going to take us. Keep in mind, this isn't the 9th inning of the compute era. SPARC's more than just "not dead"—it's just getting rolling.

Learn more:

IEEE Milestone for SPARC Architecture

Oracle Software in Silicon

 https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/entry/10_at_10 10 at 10 Larry Wake -Oracle 2015-02-01T00:31:16+00:00 2015-02-01T01:23:31+00:00
Can it have been so long already? Today is the 10th anniversary of the first release of Solaris 10. This was a breakthrough release for Solaris, Sun, and really, the industry -- it breathed new life into a class of systems software that some companies had written off long before. How did it do that? By including a wealth of groundbreaking new features that raised the bar for what an enterprise operating system should be. To use one of my favorite phrases: innovation matters, and the operating system is too critical a place in the application delivery stack not to innovate.

 Many of these features are still ahead of the curve even 10 years later, and form the core of yet more innovation in Oracle Solaris 11: Zones and ZFS in particular stand out as enabling technologies that give our customers the power of zero-overhead virtualization, "nineteen 9s" data integrity, and simple, fast, reliable provisioning and service management. If you look at the underpinnings of OpenStack as deployed in Oracle Solaris 11 today, innovation that's still fresh from Solaris 10 will be staring right back at you. And it's exciting to see that the same fundamental concepts like these that we thought were important to build into the OS in 2005 are starting to come into vogue with operating systems from other companies just ten short years later.

 Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the success of Solaris 10 and beyond!

 https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/entry/oow14_solaris_presentations Oracle OpenWorld 2014 Solaris Presentations Now Available Larry Wake -Oracle 2014-11-12T17:39:45+00:00 2014-11-12T18:35:57+00:00
Another Oracle OpenWorld is over, and as usual, there was a lot to take in. Markus Flierl had a great recap, covering what we said about Oracle Solaris, as did Rick O'Herron over on the Oracle Hardware blog, summarizing what's happening with SPARC M7.

Whether or not you got to attend this year, you might want to take a look at the presentations, which are now posted for many of the sessions. You can go to the entire content catalog (a mere 2,800+ sessions for OpenWorld and JavaOne!), or drill down to just the Oracle Solaris-related sessions via our ever-popular Focus on Oracle Solaris guide.

Here's a last look at some of this year's people, places, and performances (you can click through to a gallery of the images, if you're so inclined). Hope you can join us next year!

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Wednesday's winding down. The engineering panel was a hit once again, and the room was packed. Lots of show attendees are getting ready to head out to Treasure Island--but there's one day left.

No keynotes on Thursday; we just dive right into the last round of technical sessions (all of which are at the Hotel InterContinental).

SPECIAL OFFER: Tomorrow morning, I'm going to be at the Virtual Compute Appliance demo, part of the Engineered Systems showcase in Moscone North, at the foot of the big staircase, at 7:30 AM (!).

As an earlybird special for anyone joining me at that hour, after having been appreciated the night before: the first three people to greet me with the exact phrase:

"Yo, dude. I read your blog."

...will receive a valuable Oracle Optimized Solutions -logoed electronic tchotchke of my choosing.

9:30 AM - 10:15 AM Enterprise-Class Platform as a Service and Database as a Service with OpenStack

Join Glynn Foster and Scott Lynn to learn more about the power of OpenStack and Oracle Solaris for building flexible, cost-effective, and secure IT infrastructures.

 10:45 AM - 11:30 AM Kernel Zones: Next-Generation Cloud Platform

Oracle Solaris 11.2 introduced a powerful new capability to Zone virtualization: the ability to have isolated kernel functionality in each zone, without the overhead associated with Type 2 hypervisors. Learn more from Duncan Hardie and Ed Pilatowicz from the Oracle Solaris group, joined by Robert Jenkins, CEO of CloudSigma.

 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM Top 10 Tips and Tricks for Getting the Best Database Performance from Oracle Solaris Systems

Learn about how to combine the power of the latest generation of Oracle Solaris features with the latest generation of Oracle Database 12c features.

 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM Guarantee SLAs with Application-Driven, Software-Defined Networking

Find out what you need to know about using the new built-in capabilities of Oracle Solaris 11.2 to guarantee your application network performance, with Leonid Grossman and Scott Lynn of the Oracle Solaris development team.

 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM Code Analysis Tools for Achieving Consistent, Secure, and Reliable Product Quality

As we keep hearing, small coding errors can lead to serious security risks--and huge financial consequences. Find out how to use Oracle Solaris Studio to pinpoint these types of errors.

 1:15 PM - 2:00 PM Best Practices for Oracle Solaris Lifecycle Management

 Find out how easy it is to quickly create, deploy, and manage your cloud with Oracle Solaris, with Oracle Solaris' Eric Saxe and Glynn Foster.

 2:30 PM - 3:15 PM No-Compromise Virtualization: Making Your Data Center Cloud Efficient, Scalable, and Flexible

Michael Ramchand and Duncan Hardie show how to use Oracle systems' built-in virtualization technologies to bring more flexibility, higher performance, and unique value to your business compared to competing technologies.

And that, as they say, is a wrap! Hope you enjoyed the show this year; I'll share more of what was announced over the next few days.

 https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/entry/oow14_solaris_wednesday OpenWorld: Solaris Events on Wednesday Larry Wake -Oracle 2014-10-01T00:55:50+00:00 2014-10-01T14:19:25+00:00
 It's been a busy, informative, and entertaining OpenWorld so far -- we just wrapped up Markus' general session, followed by the customer panel. I'd like to thank Manuel, Robert, Chris, and Thorsten for participating in the latter -- there was a lot of great information shared about why moving to Oracle Solaris 11 is a major win for IT, and what their experiences have been with it.

As I was heading out of the room, someone asked, "That was fantastic; now all we need is the Solaris engineering panel. When is that?"

Wednesday's the day--and there's a lot more, too:

8:30 AM - John Fowler's Keynote (Moscone North, Hall D)

9:30 AM - 10:15 AM Breakfast

Join your favorite Systems and Solaris people once again for breakfast at the Hotel InterContinental.

10:15 AM - 11:00 AM Oracle Solaris: Best Practices for Maintenance and Upgrades

You can stroll right from there to our first session of the day at the InterContinental. Learn best practices for upgrading and patching, and how to get maximum value from My Oracle Support.

11:45 AM - 12:45 PM Create Quality, Secure, High-Performing Applications on Oracle Solaris

Like all the hands-on labs, this is at the Hotel Nikko. Get behind the wheel of Oracle Solaris Studio, and learn how to build high-quality, high-performance production-quality applications with world-class compilers, IDE and analysis tools.

12:45 PM - 1:30 PM OpenStack and Oracle Solaris: Engineered for the Cloud

At the InterContinental, Chris Riggin, Glynn Foster, and Eric Saxe discuss what makes the integration of Oracle Solaris and OpenStack the ideal solution for application provisioning and self-service virtual environments.

 1:15 - 3:15 PM Set Up a Hadoop 2 Cluster with Oracle Solaris Zones, Oracle Solaris ZFS, and Unified Archive

More hands-on experiences at the Nikko. Pick one from column "Hadoop..."

1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Oracle Database 12c Data Protection and Multitenancy on Oracle Solaris 11

...or one from column "Oracle Datbase 12c".

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM Oracle Solaris Panel: Insights and Directions from Oracle Solaris Engineering

Meanwhile, back at the InterContinental: If you've clicked through to the synopsis, this already looks like a winner: Joost Pronk hosts four Oracle Solaris engineers, ready to share what they're doing and answer your questions. But wait: there's more! We'll have a bunch more engineers in the room as well, so the Solaris-insight-directions meter is pretty much pegged. Stick around afterwards and hang out with everyone to get even more insight. (And direction.)

4:45 PM - 5:30 PM Engineering Insights: Best Practices for Optimizing Oracle Software for Oracle Hardware

"More insights?" you ask. "Can this even be?" Yes! That's why you have to come to OpenWorld! You'll hear a series of case studies from real Oracle applications, illustrating how Oracle Solaris Studio development tools were key to fully tuning and optimizing Oracle software for Oracle hardware.

At this point in the day, after you've experienced all that Solaris, the Aerosmiths and the Macklemores and the Lewises and the Spacehogs might seem downright anticlimactic. But you really should go see them, because I'd hate it if they wound up playing to an empty island.

 https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/entry/oow14_solaris_tuesday OpenWorld: Solaris Events on Tuesday Larry Wake -Oracle 2014-09-28T20:43:43+00:00 2014-09-28T20:49:36+00:00
We've already previewed Monday; here's an advance look at Tuesday's Solaris-related events. Don't forget, the "Focus on Oracle Solaris" document gives you a full rundown of all things Solaris at the show.

Markus Flierl, VP of Oracle Solaris Core Technology Development, anchors the morning at the Hotel InterContinental with our Oracle Solaris general session, immediately followed by the Oracle Solaris customer panel in the same room.

10:00 AM - 10:45 AM Breakfast

We invite you once again to start your day with us at the Hotel InterContinental, and mingle with Systems and Solaris people from inside and outside of Oracle.

10:15 AM - 12:15 PM Enterprise Private Cloud (Part 1): OpenStack Deployment in 20 Minutes

At the Hotel Nikko: did you miss this hands-on lab on Monday? You've got one more chance to join Glynn Foster and learn how to unleash the power combo of OpenStack and Oracle Solaris.

10:45 AM - 11:30 AM General Session: Oracle Solaris Strategy, Engineering Insights, and Roadmap

Conversely, if you want to attend the Markus session, be sure to hit the lab on Monday, and hang out at the InterContinental for this. Stick around in the same room for:

12:00 N - 12:45 PM Customer Panel: Customer Insights into Deploying Oracle Solaris

We've got a great panel lined up with four customers who are doing some amazing things with Oracle Solaris -- click through to see who's who. (As the emcee for this session, I have one job: stay out of their way.)

1:30 PM - 3:15 PM Larry Ellison's Keynote (Moscone North, Hall D)

3:15 PM - 5:15 PM Looks like a great time to check out more demos! As you exit the keynote, you can see the Engineered Systems demos, including the Virtual Compute Appliance, at the foot of the big staircase. Then keep going to Moscone South and see the Solaris and Systems demos at the DEMOgrounds.

5:15 PM - 7:15 PM  Enterprise Private Cloud (Part 2): Fast and Secure App Deployment with OpenStack

Close off your evening at the Nikko and work with Glynn to test drive Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Solaris and see how it speeds up and secures enterprise application service delivery.


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With regular git and github I can do a code review by simply creating a pull request of the feature branch I'm working on to the master branch. How would I do code reviews with git-flow? With workflow like "git flow feature finish` I'm confused as to where the code review actually happens and how git-flow or git can facilitate that review.
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We stumbled on this exact problem recently. We really like git flow, as it use a good level of semantic (using the same level that you use in team discussion : "I'll start feature A" more than "I'll create a branch, checkout it"), while git is very "implementation" level (which is good and useful also, but different).
The problem we have is with
Our current solution :
This is consistent with our practice, with the downside of requiring to delete the branch ourselves (as we do not git flow finish). Our next step will probably be to reimplement some parts of git flow (as it is mainly about chaining git commands) to take this into account (having the "cleaning" part of the finish, without the merge).
The process the team I work with uses for this is as follows:
Normally all of this process is done by the original author but that is not required. Anyone on our team can step in and pick up this process at any point. All they have to do is checkout the feature branch and continue on with the process. Who ever runs
For hotfixes we use a similiar approach and create the pull request in GitHub before we finish the hotfix.
If you're doing code reviews, then I will assume that you have a central repository that contains the "official" code. Developers pull from and push to this central repository.
When you use Gerrit, Gerrit itself becomes the central repository (it has built-in SSH and HTTP servers that let users interact with it in basically the same way they already are). When using Gerrit, the workflow becomes:
When using a central repository, other developers can see the submitted changes after step 2. Gerrit introduces the code review workflow, and so other developers only see the submitted changes after step 5.
This works well with git-flow (or any other branching scheme) because Gerrit supports reviewing changes made on any branch.
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BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe revealed some information about the Cougars' 2013 football schedule on Monday at the West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tip-Off event.
Holmoe didn't announce any new additions to the schedule. Rather, he said that two teams under contract for the 2013 season requested to back out.
"We had the schedule relatively set; we were done," said Holmoe, "and two teams, one of them under contract, asked to get out–which we did–and one team that was not under contract, but for all intents and purposes, it was done…(they) bailed out."
The two teams that "bailed out" have yet to be identified, but it appears they have already been replaced. As reported by KSL.com, Holmoe said "we've contracted a couple of games in the last couple of days."
We can only speculate as to the two teams that canceled on the Cougars. It could have been the last two teams to be scheduled, which were never made public. Some BYU fans have speculated that one of the schools could be Utah.
Yesterday, Desert News furnished some information regarding the future of the BYU-Notre Dame series. The two schools agreed to a 6-year contract back in 2010. But so far, only one of those games has been played and another is set for 2013.
"We might take a big break until we play them again," Holmoe told the Deseret News. That's good news for BYU fans that don't want to see the Irish cancel the remaining four games against the Cougars. However, Holmoe did say this later…"Who knows what's going to happen between now and then? I take them a year at a time."
Prior to the "who knows" comment, Holmoe listed the reasons why Notre Dame should continue to play BYU.
"They still need seven more games," Holmoe said. "They have some games that they traditionally play. But we're playing them two-for-one, which is a good deal for them. And it's a good game. Going back there this year and playing them strong, we got good feedback from Notre Dame and their administration and staff. There's good respect between their players and our players. It's a good matchup between schools. Notre Dame doesn't play just anybody. They play schools that they feel are good academic schools and schools that stand for something."
Notre Dame will have a slight scheduling crunch due to their agreement to play five ACC teams per season beginning as early as 2014. The Irish also want to keep yearly games against Navy, Stanford, and USC. That leaves them with four-conference slots open, but less in years they play other long-standing rivals such as Michigan, Michigan State or Purdue.
The BYU Cougars currently have 11 games on their 2013 schedule and can play 13 since they are traveling to Hawaii. Here is what their schedule looks like now, but it is certainly subject to change.
BYU has some serious problems to resolve if they wish to remain a relevant college football program and a significant force in the game. For 2 decades BYU has resisted moving to the top tier leagues mostly out of demand of LDS Church governing board members that BYU not diminish the relevance of in-state schools such as Utah and Utah State. The relationship with Utah was resolved in 2010 when the Utes were invited to make the Pac-10 the Pac-12, but Utah State remains a program mired in mid-major mediocrity despite success the last 2 seasons. As a whole the Aggie (Utah State) athletic program has been a money loser, and continues to put a great deal of strain on the schools finances and have resulted in the highest student fees in the state of Utah.
There are substantiated rumors that BYU backed away from a Big 12 invitation just over a year ago not because of the unwritten "no Sunday play" clause in a contract BYU demanded but could not gain from media partners, particularly FOX, but rather because administrators knew it would not be a harmonious decision to do so at their Board of Trustees, where a small yet high ranking and powerful minority strongly feel that such a move by BYU along with Utah's recent move to the Pac-12 would be ultimately unfair to Utah State. This is a grudge that has been around with some members of LDS church and thus BYU senior leadership for over 50 years since Utah and BYU found themselves in the original WAC configuration in 1961 and Utah State was left out. BYU has faced this so called "fairness doctrine to Utah State" as several of its post-graduate master's and doctoral programs have been either furloughed, discontinued over the past 18 years academically speaking.
There is still ramped speculation that the Big 12 will add two more schools before 2014 and 2015 and BYU remains on this short list. It might be that there will be some likely changes to the makeup of this senior leadership group that will make such an accommodation for BYU more possible than many realize. I would love to see this happen since its obvious BYU needs the Big 12 more than they need football independence than the WCC. Either that or drop the program.
Nobody knows anything about why or not it didn't happen. Those who know aren't saying a peep, which is why the rest of us know nothing. It's all rumors and because of that it is somewhat useless to speculate.
Most of what you just said is straight up not true. All they have to do to be relevant is win. They're upcoming schedules would put them in the national picture if they win. And news flash: the program is a missionary tool. The church would never drop it, ever.
News Flash Kab: BYU players in the NFL encourage more LDS Church members to not live within the harmony of the Sabbath than serve as a missionary tool. At least that's how I know some senior leaders feel about it.
Son, for some reason you put this blame on the leaders of the church. Get with it they know how the FB program is a missionary tool and that the coach is a fantastic tool himself. We need a OC to help with our scoring when that is resolved look out. We will come to the rescue and BYU will rule.
I am curious who backed out of games?
NOTE: the "drop the program" comment from @CougarCentreSLC seems a little silly. Just enjoy the here and now and let Holmoe worry about the rest.
I wish it were silly, but sadly it has been an item discussed. How much traction it has probably isn't that big, at least yet. The LDS Church's recent reaffirmation of Sabbath Respect amongst its members, is also part of this debate, as well as the future academic mission of BYU.
If it were to happen, probably by the late teens would be my guess and a program that has slipped badly and starts looking more like Rice or Tulane look like now. With no ESPN contract renewal. Point being is don't kid yourself, it could happen.
What you're saying makes no sense. BYU will drop to the level of Rice and Tulane when nobody watches them any more. ND was mediocre for a long time but remained a coveted brand name through that time solely because of their giant fanbase. Are you saying that BYU's fans (mostly LDS) are less loyal than ND's (mostly Catholic) fans?
@cougar center – Thats the worst post ever. If the PAC-12 or anyone relevant would have ever wanted BYU they would have gone. No one wanted BYU because they won't play on Sunday. The SLC media market has become relevant for TV and the Utes were a program on the rise. More attractive than a BYU program with their unique quirks. To think BYU passed on membership because they wanted to help Utah & Utah State makes no sense.
Utah is a program only on the rise due to BYU sticking with them during the 1990s and decade just passed. Despite the growth of the Wasatch Front, Utah would not have been able to grow theri program and brand without BYU pushing them. LDS senior leaders have seen this and some now wish for the same for Utah State, which is why BYU tried to deal with the WAC first 2 years ago, and MWC commissioner Craig "the Hair" Thompson knew this which is why he went after Utah State first before cornering Fresno State, Nevada and later Hawaii.
Here is what I figured the schedule looked like prior to this interview. I think Maryland was the uncontracted back-out and does not change it. The contracted team could be several teams so have not speculated.
9/7 Texas
9/14 @ Washington State
9/21 Utah
10/5 @ Utah St. (Friday)
10/12 Ga Tech
10/19 @ Houston
10/26 Boise State
11/9 @ Wisconsin
11/23 @ Notre Dame
11/30 Middle Tennessee
12/7 @ Hawaii
Where have you seen Maryland from?
Interesting posts and we all have opinions don't we. BYU is much more of an attractive program than the Utes will ever be. BYU has a national following that puts the program as one of the top ten, Utah isn't even in the top 100. The Sunday play issue has very little to do with why the Cougars aren't in the Big-12, the main issue is BYU's rights to TV broadcasting and the Church's influence on those broadcasts. Regarding conferences I think BYU and BSU will join the Big East which may be renamed. Although both the Big 10 and Big 12 could invite if the broadcasting issues could be resolved, but that is a huge hurdle to overcome. Finally, I think the PAC-12 over the coming years will regret the additions of both Utah and Colorado.
Oklahoma News reporter and editorialist Berry Trammel has made it VERY clear it isn't BYU TV that has created the BYU to the Big 12 snag.
I stand behind my statement that it is the "fairness doctrine" towards Utah State by a few powerful people. BYU in the Big 12 along with Utah already in the Pac-12 would/will relegate Utah State to athletic irrelevance, not to mention put them into the same level of academic relevance as Weber State, Utah Valley or Southern Utah Universities.
Er, no, the Big10 would never invite BYU. BYU's profile doesn't mesh with the B10's at all. Note that the B10 is a collection of big-research secular universities (mostly public). BYU is none of those 3.
I'm guessing the contracted game that was backed out of is Washington State. Mike Leach is notorious for his easy non-conference schedules, and they already have Auburn next year.
And I'm gonna say the non-contracted game is Idaho. They just became independent, so everyone assumed BYU would throw them a bone on their late season schedule. But when their schedule came out there was no BYU, just a November game that says TBD BCS team. I'm guessing someone came along and offered more money for a buy game than BYU was offering.
The BYU payout would be around $600K-$700K. SEC teams do offer $200k more on average, and it it still an aircraft charter game from Moscow to Provo. Utah State on the other hand is a minimal bus trip, which is how Holmoe has continued to leverage 2 for ones from the Aggies.
BYU won't play Sundays. A BYU team forfeited a NIT Championship game (the equivalent of an NCAA mens basketball championship game) rather than play Sunday Perhaps this will help you understand the "BYU rule" it is against our religious beliefs to play Sunday. The coaches and media writers knew BYU likely gave up a championship because of their religious beliefs, and they realized the game certainly could have been scheduled on a non-Sunday. The players missed out due to their convictions. The hue and cry was intense and the bYU rule was instituted. Any game which may require BYU to play Sunday is put in a different region, where the final is on a Saturday or a Monday. This has nothing to do with leaving poor Utah State out of some money mix. It isn't good business sense for the SEC or other conferences to be unable to schedule big games, on Sundays, should BYU for example be involved. I have no idea if Utah State would also follow suit and not play Sundays…I doubt they would. College Football would survive just fine without any Sunday games.
Re: the Maryland question, Tom Holmoe mentioned in two interviews:
– Former Army AD owed him a favor in terms of filling a schedule
– one team in negotiations had only 2013 & 2018 schedule openings
Just struck me that the out-request could be Hawaii.
It is a contracted 2011 through 2020 ten game series but included no-penalty opt out provisions. These were expected to be used if BYU joined a conference but could also be used if Coach Chow can't stand losing badly to BYU. Ten game series could becoe eight if a school is not competitive for a couple years.
The 2013 date is still on the Hawaii website but they have five FBS non-conference opponents at this time, they need their FCS win more than ever these days.
MTSU seemed like a stretch home-and-home for BYU but NMSU can only fill in one of BYU's Nov 16, Nov 30 (NMSU plays Idaho) and Dec 7 open dates. We may see NMSU, MTSU and a bye those three dates if Hawaii is gone.
Does the predominately late night schedules for the games bother anybody else besides me? By my clock, if the San Jose State Game would have gone into one or two overtimes, BYU would've been playing on Sunday. The big TV money, in my opinion, is destroying the tradition of the game of football as we used to know.
Not concerned here about the tradition.
The only concern of us outside the USA is that ESPN seems unaware that it is syndicating feeds of game broadcasts to other countries. Every time there is a 3:40:00 game fit into a 3:15:00 window, there is no ESPNews cutover, there is a game cut into 25 minutes in. BYU-Idaho was 21-0 last week before avavilable, SJSU was up 7-0 on BYU this week. We're seeing lots of 4th quarter of little Aaron Rodgers at Vanderbilt though.
I'd rather see BYU at 9 or 10pm than have them play at noon for just he 65,000 in the stands. I didn't feel as strongly when I lived in Provo, but now I'm out of state and really love BYU's recent emphasis on exposure. I watched every game last year.
I would like to see us schedule Iowa State sometime soon. The Cougars have played the Cyclones five times without success. Maybe the sixth time will be the charm, and it would give us good exposure to the Big 12.
Nevada is game 13?
Sounds like MTSU @ BYU 9-14, BYU @ Nevada 11-30, no BYU @ Hawaii in 2013 and recently weak Hawaii gets a much-needed Sun Belt or FCS game in 2013. BYU may pass on some of the Hawaii games now that the first week of December and likely the last week of November are unavailble for games.
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As luck would have it, there are indeed tools to do such a thing:


text: Does anybody know a software manipulating commutative differential graded algebras, and providing a computation of the minimal model? I tried to use the package DGAlgebras of Macaulay2, but I got several mistakes. For example the rational numbers are not allowed as ground ring, and the differential on a generator of a free CDGA is not allowed to be zero. Thanks


text: >>> David Ponce <david@...> seems to think that: >Hi all, > >I just want to inform you that I will be in vacation (in Dusseldorf, >Germany) from tomorrow (04-07-2002) during two weeks :-) So, I >won't be able to work on Semantic nor reply to e-mails during that >period. [ ... ] Have a good time! You will be returning around the same time I will be leaving on my vacation, putting any future technical exchanges into the realm of August. Perhaps I'll have my new segmented lexical analyzer done by then. Eric -- Eric Ludlam: zappo@..., eric@... Home: http://www.ultranet.com/~zappo Siege: http://www.siege-engine.com Emacs: http://cedet.sourceforge.net GNU: http://www.gnu.org


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