Doritos’ Consumer-Generated Super Bowl Ad Still Resonates
Jan/100
Consumer generated ads will get their moment in the sun again during the 2010 Super Bowl, thanks to Frito-Lay’s plans to increase from two to three the number of consumer-created Doritos commercials…
Outer Banks Holiday Vacation Rental Gifts from Sun Realty
Dec/090
Sun Realty is offering customized vacation gift certificates for OBX vacations for your loved ones to apply to any vacation rental booked with Sun Realty. (PRWeb Dec 16, 2009)
Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/12/prweb3348104.htm
MySQL Saves Cashpoint an Estimated Half-Million Euros per Year
Dec/090
Sun Microsystems today announced Cashpoint, the Austrian betting and gaming company, has selected Sun’s MySQL™ database to manage its customer, Web, and results data. In order to protect its systems’ high-availability, Cashpoint uses both a MySQL Enterprise™ Unlimited subscription and the MySQL Cluster database product. Employing an enterprise-wide MySQL Enterprise subscription along with MySQL Cluster contributes to considerable cost savings for the company.
Sun “Tech Days” Conference World Tour Kicks Off in Brazil
Dec/090
Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced the details of the Sun Tech Days worldwide developer conference for 2009-10 at http://developers.sun.com/events/techdays/index.jsp. Sun Tech Days is a multi-city world tour designed to showcase how the developer community can leverage Sun technologies, services and products to drive the next generation of industry innovation. Since 1998, the Sun Tech Days worldwide conference has brought together hundreds of thousands of developers and students to learn about technology from industry experts.
Sun Realty Launches New Web Site: A One-Stop Resource for Outer Banks Vacation Rentals
Oct/090
Sun Realty’s redesigned web site offers much more than just a fresh new look. Advanced search capabilities and fun interactive features make http://www.SunRealtyNC.com a one-stop resource for planning the perfect Outer Banks, NC vacation. (PRWeb Oct 27, 2009)
Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/10/prweb3102724.htm
Italy’s CASPUR Relies on MySQL Enterprise to Support its Scientific Research
Oct/090
Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced that CASPUR, a non-profit, consortium of Italian universities focused on scientific supercomputing and innovative technologies, has subscribed to Sun’s MySQL Enterprise™ database service.
New Version of MySQL Enterprise Allows DBAs to Graphically Drill-Down into Database Bottlenecks to Improve Application Performance
Sep/090
Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced an update to its MySQL Enterprise™ subscription, designed to assist corporate users improve the speed and uptime of their MySQL™ database applications. Thirty-day trial subscriptions of the new MySQL Enterprise Fall 2009 Release are now available free-of-charge from http://www.mysql.com/trials.
NetHawk Cuts its Database Costs by 50% with Sun’s Embedded MySQL database
Sep/090
Finland-based NetHawk today announced it has selected Sun Microsystems’ MySQL Embedded Database Server software in order to meet its stringent requirements for application speed, scalability and 24×7 availability – at half the cost of other databases.
TweetMeme Migrates to Sun’s MySQL Enterprise Database Subscription Service
Jul/090
Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced that TweetMeme, the innovative online application that tracks the popularity of links sent via Twitter, has subscribed to Sun’s MySQL Enterprise database offering in order to keep up with the microblogging service’s explosive growth.
Created in 2008 by pioneering Web 2.0 startup Fav.or.it, TweetMeme gives the rapidly expanding Twitter community a means of easily seeing and sorting the most popular links on Twitter. TweetMeme also provides a realtime search facility of fully expanded, qualified and indexed links so that users can get answers to queries about very recent events or news.
Sun survey shows growing open source software adoption in the Nordic and Benelux regions
Jun/090
Sun Microsystems today announced the results of a regional survey that shows 44 percent of all large and medium-sized companies in the Nordic and Benelux countries are using open source software (OSS). The survey was conducted by the international market research company TNS Gallup, on behalf of Sun.