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 - 837 views - 02/26/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Sun has put out its promised xVM
Ops Center, the 1.0 widgetry that will be used to manage its Xen-based xVM
Server, its prospective contribution to the...
0 replies - 283 views - 02/22/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing
Company (TSMS), not TI, Sun’s traditional fab, is going to make Sun’s Sparc
chips from here on out, starting with...
0 replies - 308 views - 02/20/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Greenplum, the other (Postgres/Bizgres-based) open
source database near and dear to Sun besides MySQL, this one capable of
messaging a petabyte of data and...
0 replies - 1123 views - 02/13/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Sun is going to buy innotek, a low-profile PC
virtualization house based in Stuttgart, and its free, open source,
GPLv2-licensed VirtualBox software to extend...
0 replies - 945 views - 02/12/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
So one day, Scott McNealy, founder and chairman of Sun, read in his morning newspaper how the use of Java was rapidly diminishing, courtesy of something called...
0 replies - 12781 views - 02/03/08 by Ivo Jansch in News
Sun is open sourcing SPOT, its Java-based Small Programmable
Object Technology research project under the GPLv2 license. It said the
contribution, made in...
0 replies - 2807 views - 01/30/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Sun has productized the ultimate add-on, its Project
Blackbox water-cooled virtual data center in a 20-foot shipping container, as the
Sun MD S20, MD being...
1 replies - 1633 views - 01/29/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
See what cutting costs can do. Sun nearly doubled its
profits in the December quarter to $260 million, or 31 cents a share, better
than thought, on flat...
0 replies - 1146 views - 01/25/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
The ink was still drying on Sun’s billion-dollar deal to buy
the webby, low-end open source database house MySQL when Sun turned around and
put money...
0 replies - 4289 views - 01/22/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Sun, Oracle’s sometimes best friend, turned into an Oracle
competitor this morning when it said it was buying MySQL, the open source
database that’s part...
2 replies - 2140 views - 01/16/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
