0 replies - 46 views - 06/03/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
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 - 78 views - 05/01/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
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 - 82 views - 04/28/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
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 - 65 views - 04/24/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
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 - 90 views - 04/12/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
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 - 1957 views - 04/07/08 by Matthew Schmidt in News
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 - 2912 views - 03/25/08 by Matthew Schmidt in News
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 - 509 views - 03/18/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
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 - 612 views - 03/17/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
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 - 511 views - 03/16/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
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 - 550 views - 03/10/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
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 - 388 views - 02/28/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
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 - 471 views - 02/27/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
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 - 488 views - 02/27/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Sun closed on its acquisition of
MySQL today, calling the billion-dollar purchase the “most important acquisition
in Sun’s history” – oh, heck, make...
0 replies - 536 views - 02/26/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
