From Santa Claus Office: Merry Christmas !

From Finland, Santa's home, a nice Xmas everyone !

We are heading fast to 2006 but we should not forget that 2005 was a good year. Lots of goodies were send out:

• Solaris 10 and the new Galaxy servers
• Studio 11
• ZFS
• A new era: CMT and the new UltraSPARC T1 processor
  
• Announcements: Oracle, PostgreSQL
• The BrandZ Community
• Many contributions to OpenSolaris and many other new things.

The "Unlocking the Secrets to the Scalability Puzzle" seminar was a nice dialogue with several Sun engineers about how well Solaris scale and how can you make your application scale better. Check it out it has a lot of good information. Thanks to Richard for explaining and adding some good points why Solaris matter.

On the Java front: for all of you which are still running your businesses under 1.4.2_xx VM a good news is that jmap was backported to the 1.4.2_09 ! So you don't have to change your application server from 1.4.2 to Java 5 to use jmap. Try as well to read Sundararajan's blog about jmap, FatCatAir's entry about Safepoints and as well Alan's blog about the great Java error: OutOfMemoryError !

And if you got tired or you want something new and nice book a room to SnowCastle and start your compilers, you won't need extra coolers :)

See you guys in 2006 !