Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.1.0) for Solaris SPARC 64 Bit is now available for download at the OTN.

To read the entire article at its source, please refer to Oracle 11g R2 for Solaris SPARC

Something that Mike brought to my attention, Power Calculators for the SPARC Enterprise M-Series range.

As you know, Sun & Fujitsu collaborate very closely on the SPARC Enterprise range, the power calculators are currently hosted on the following Fuj site:

To read the entire article at its source, please refer to Power Calculator for SPARC Enterprise M-Series

Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000/M4000/M5000/M8000/M9000 Servers XCP 1090 Firmware comes already pre-installed on your server's eXtended System Control Facility (XSCF) system controller. The XSCF system controller is used to control, monitor, operate & service your SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers and domains.

A Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server equipped with two UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors at 1.6GHz delivered a result of 422782 SPECjbb2005 bops, 26424 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 consumed an average of 875 Watts of power during the execution of the benchmark.

Looks like Oracle starts to put some weight behind SPARC with a teaser for an announcement taking place on October the 14th at the Oracle World - Performance - Sun plus Oracle is faster.:

To read the entire article at its source, please refer to Oracle and SPARC

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced that its Sun SPARC Enterprise(R) servers with chip multi-threading (CMT) technology set three new world-records on industry-standard e-mail serving and Java benchmarks.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server running the Sun Java Messaging server 6.3 achieved World Record SPECmail2009 results using ZFS.

To read the entire article at its source, please refer to SPECmail2009 on Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 and Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.3

A Sun tech tip shows a way to monitor performance counters for the UltraSPARC T2 Plus External Coherency Hub using the busstat command. This External Coherency Hub architecture (also referred to as "Zambezi") is found on Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Servers.

The UltraSPARC T2/T2+ got a speedup to 1.6 Ghz.

To read the entire article at its source, please refer to UltraSPARC T2 got a speedup

Until Oracle owns Sun, it must help maintain credibility of the UltraSparc product line or watch Sun customers start migrating en masse to a new vendor.

It's hard to say what Sun under Oracle will look like, but it's getting harder to believe that what remains of the company will look like anything that resembles its present hardware/software form.