A new website devoted to Sun Labs projects being jettisoned by Oracle (or soon-to-be-jettisoned) and their users and researchers will start up this weekend. “Red Giant Phase” is now accepting members (free) and has groups for Project Wonderland, SunSPOT, Darkstar, DReaM, and others.

Discussions about where these projects and their code will go in the future, blogs, and even a *mild defense of Jonathan Schwartz* are on the site.

You can join Red Giant Phase by going to http://sunorphans.ning.com

“Today’s my last day at Sun. I’ll miss it. Seems only fitting to end on a #haiku.
Financial crisis/Stalled too many customers/CEO no more”

If you have any documentation for Tadpole or RDI systems in an online format, please get in touch with me so that I can add it to the archive.

“Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, along with executives from Oracle and Sun, will outline the strategy for the combined companies, product roadmaps, and how customers will benefit from having all components – hardware, operating system, database, middleware, and applications – engineered to work together.”

In related news, the European Commission has unconditionally approved Oracle’s purchase of Sun.

“VirtualBox 3.1 introduces the virtualization industry’s first “Teleportation” capability, allowing running virtual machines to be moved, uninterrupted between disparate hosts – including those on different operating systems, different classes of computer (e.g. server to client) and even different CPUs (e.g. Intel to AMD).”

Running at 2.88GHz for the SPARC Enterprise M9000 and M8000 servers and 2.53GHz for SPARC Enterprise M5000 and M4000 servers, the new processors provide increased single-thread and overall system performance, while the enhanced memory controller in the SPARC Enterprise M8000 and M9000 servers improves throughput under memory-intensive workloads.

More information can be found here.

Sun expects revenues for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009 in the range of $2.580 to $2.680 billion, as compared with $3.780 billion for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2008.

Sun anticipates GAAP net loss per share for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009 in the range of $(0.24) to $(0.34). On a non-GAAP basis, Sun expects net loss per share in the range of $(0.06) to $(0.16). Non-GAAP net loss per share excludes amortization of acquisition-related intangibles, stock-based compensation, restructuring and related impairment of long-lived assets, settlement income, net gain or loss on equity investments and the tax effect of these non-GAAP adjustments.