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Oracle's Effect on Java

With Oracle just after buying Sun, maybe it's time to consider what this means for the Java community. There's no doubt that enterprise Java is something...

20 replies - 21494 views - 04/20/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

Sun’s Sales Boss Jumps to HP; Sun Reorgs Sales

 

0 replies - 171 views - 06/03/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Sun’s Quarter Sucked; Layoffs Planned

 Sun’s back in the red again after five profitable quarter and five years in the red after the dot.com bust.  The March quarter turned sour on it,...

0 replies - 189 views - 05/01/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Sun Buys Montalvo Assets

Apple picked up PA Semi, the low-power PowerPC start-up, last week to do who knows what with and Sun picked up the assets of Montalvo Systems, the laconic,...

0 replies - 239 views - 04/28/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Sun Pushes To Make Solaris Apps SaaSy

Sun in now offering a new virtualization service that will let ISVs run their Solaris apps in a multi-tenant on-demand environment without having to rewrite...

0 replies - 218 views - 04/24/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Sun Fields Niagara Boxes with x86 Warning Labels

Sun and Fujitsu have unwrapped their first Solaris-based dual-socket UltraSparc T2 Plus servers described as packing the power of 5,000 systems into a single...

0 replies - 204 views - 04/12/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Sun Offers Extended Java SE Support for Businesses

In a move that probably surprised very few, Sun will begin to offer extended support for Java under the brand Java SE for Business.

5 replies - 2692 views - 04/07/08 by Matthew Schmidt in News

Java on the iPhone: Will It Matter?

Over the past few weeks, we've heard a lot about Sun and the fact that they're planning to bring Java to the iPhone.  What does this mean for developers? ...

4 replies - 4867 views - 03/25/08 by Matthew Schmidt in News

Sun Turns Over Third Virtualization Card

 Sun is laying a third bet at the virtualization roulette wheel besides its yet-to-be-announced Xen-based xVM Server and whatever it does with its shiny...

0 replies - 815 views - 03/18/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

HP Bets on the Guy Sun Lost $2b On

HP has hired Stephen DeWitt to run its PC business in the Americas, an interesting choice considering he’s not a PC guy. DeWitt’s the fellow Sun lost...

0 replies - 929 views - 03/17/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Sun & Microsoft Push the Détente Button Again

 Sun and Microsoft, which have been toying with interoperability for years now with not that much to show for it, are going to open a full-fledged...

0 replies - 821 views - 03/16/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Sun To Move OpenOffice To LGPL 3

 Sun is going to move OpenOffice from the LGPL 2.1 license to the LGPL 3 when the 3.0 rev of the software hits beta, a date that has not been finalized...

0 replies - 862 views - 03/10/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Sun Updates Blade

Sun has put Intel’s Tigerton Xeon quad in a new Sun Blade X8450 server module, using the occasion as an opportunity to toot its horn about being tied with...

0 replies - 669 views - 02/28/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Sun Open Sources Honeycomb Storage Code

In what appears to be an extension of its competitive interest in the OpenDocument Format, Sun has donated the source code for its Solaris/Java-based...

0 replies - 768 views - 02/27/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Sun To Sell VMware

Sun, which is supposed to have serious ambitions for its own upcoming xVM virtualization technology, said Wednesday that it would sell and provide front-line...

0 replies - 783 views - 02/27/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News