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Dear Colleague,
Published reports suggest that half of all CIOs leave their jobs in less than three years. Having been in the business far longer, I'm often asked what is my most critical piece of advice for success in our profession. It boils down to one question — do you know what Q x A = E means?
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Best regards,
Bill Howard
Chief CIO Advocate and Advisor to the CEO
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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Network Computing 05Q1
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The $500 Million OS
Solaris gets a "bionic" makeover... faster, stronger, better than ever before
The latest version of the premier UNIX operating system is here, and it's a significant release of great importance to users and developers. Important because of the numbers it boasts: 600 new features, up to 80 percent system utilization, and up to 30 times better application performance. Important because it provides the highest levels of availability to date. Important because it comes with military grade security to prevent security problems, not just fix them.
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Web Services: Benefits, Approaches, Tips & Realities
Sun Enterprise Software VP Mark Bauhaus is responsible for the company's Web services business, which encompasses strategy, technology, and products. In this interview, Mark gives us an update on important Web services topics affecting developers, including his views on the benefits of developing with a service-oriented architecture approach. He even tips his hand about upcoming new features in the Java Enterprise System, Sun's integrated platform for Web services development and deployment.
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Sun's N1 Grid Engine Increases ROA Quickly for Sun IT Operations
Grid computing is well-established, relatively easy, and a great way to increase ROA. Surveys by analyst firm IDC determined that grid computing is one of the top five data-center priorities, predicting that 20 percent of companies will use it by the end of 2005.
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Sun Managed Security Services: Multidimensional Defense-in-Depth Whitepaper
The world's network computing infrastructure is a prime target for theft, interference, and abuse, due to its great and growing value to business and society. Truly effective data security defenses must address data security at the global network level and fully incorporate people, process, and technology factors.
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Data Warehousing Total Cost of Ownership Research Whitepaper, Ventana Research
Shiralee Rawsthorne-Houghton and Jon Ford
Our research indicates that organizations that do not conduct a data warehousing TCO analysis could overspend by millions of dollars over three years. We've established a TCO model and framework that you can leverage to perform a similar study in your organization.
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Out of Sun Labs: A Flexible Open Source Framework for Speech Recognition
Sphinx-4 is a flexible, modular, pluggable framework to help foster new innovations in the core research of hidden Markov model (HMM) speech recognition systems. The design of Sphinx-4 is based on patterns that have emerged from the design of past systems, as well as new requirements based on areas that researchers currently want to explore. The framework and the implementations are all freely available via open source.
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