Joyent and Sun are announcing a collaboration intended to accelerate development and deployment of social applications for the Facebook and Google OpenSocial environments. Users will get as many as 12 months of free Web hosting on the Joyent Cloud, which is an infrastructure powered by OpenSolaris, the open-source version of Solaris.
"With this new program, Sun can provide social application developers access to Sun's technology and expertise in building large-scale applications with Joyent helping them to deploy," on a scalable platform, said Juan Carlos Soto, Sun vice president of global market development and engineering.
Sun and Joyent plan to tour cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago in coming months to offer training on building social applications for the Web.
In other developments pertaining to Sun at OSCON:
* Sun plans to add Sparc CPU support to OpenSolaris in November, a Sun official said. Currently, OpenSolaris is limited to Intel and AMD chips. Also planned for the 2008.11 version of the platform is an automated install capability, said Glynn Foster, Sun OpenSolaris product manager.
* Josh Berkus, who had been Sun's specialist on PostgreSQL database matters, has left the company, Berkus said in an interview at OSCON. He cited how things had changed regarding Sun's position on PostgreSQL following the company's acquisition of MySQL. "My job at Sun became very different from what it was when I was hired," Berkus said. The job became more focused on support with less emphasis on developing interesting open-source projects, he said.
Sun has become very focused on revenues pertaining to PostgreSQL and databases, he said. "They're interested in having a successful support offering," said Berkus, who added he was not laid off. The company recently let go of about 1,000 employees.
Sun, meanwhile, is bringing in someone to take over for Berkus, a company representative said.
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