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IBM, Sun release OpenSolaris OS on mainframe A mainframe version of the OpenSolaris operating system is now available for download, IBM and Sun announced Monday.Both Solaris and the System z mainframe have a huge footprint in the financial services sector, Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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EnterpriseDB pulls away from Sun's orbit, embraces IBM EnterpriseDBÂ announced on Tuesday that it had raised $10 million from funders including IBM, which took a small but symbolically laden stake in the four-year-old open-source database maker.EnterpriseDB's produc Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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IBM authorizes OpenSolaris on mainframes Step one comes after step two A month ago, Sine Nomine Associates, the mainframe consultancy that has done most of the porting work on the "Sirius" variant of Solaris Unix to IBM's mainframe platform, said that the code was available for people to try out on the OpenSolaris project site. And now Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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IBM aims for Linux customers with 'baby' mainframe IBM is targeting midsize business customers that use Linux with a new "baby" mainframe that costs just a fraction of the amount charged for the high-end mainframe IBM released in February . The System z10 Busine Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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IBM launches three mobile software products and services IBM announced new software and services for mobile devices today, noting that sometime later this year there will be more mobile phones in use worldwide than landline phones.IBM's internal Institute for Business Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Sun exec ponders OpenSolaris, Linux Ian Murdock is vice president of developer and community marketing at Sun Microsystems. Prior to that, he was the founder of the Debian Linux distribution and CTO at the Linux Foundation. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill met with Murdock at the JavaOne conference Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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IBM mainframe acquisition raises antitrust concerns IBM has acquired Platform Solutions, a vendor of mainframes and other computer hardware, in a move that raised antitrust concerns from one IT trade group.IBM's acquisition of Platform Solutions, announced Wednes Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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IBM urges virtualization for datacenters Virtualization, SOA, and cloud computing are keys to accommodating the anticipated growth of datacenters in an energy-conscious environment, an IBM official stressed Monday.In a keynote presentation and subseque Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Sun readies Web stack featuring choice of OSes Sun is announcing on Wednesday availability of Sun Web Stack, which puts the company?s own twist on the popular open-source LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL Perl/Python or PHP) stack.The company is unveiling the stack a Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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IBM brings back-to-the-future mainframe to present SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - IBM is set to launch the latest update of its powerful mainframe computer on Tuesday, a more energy-efficient machine that it hopes will compete with high-end computers from rivals such as Hewlett-Packard Co and Sun Microsystems Inc . Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Reuter |
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Sun code transforms x86 servers into storage arrays Sun Microsystems is set to unveil Friday open source software that can repurpose any OpenSolaris-based x86 server into a block-based storage device capable of emulating the physical characteristics of a storage array. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Sun cites open source tribulations Sun Microsystems officials on Monday acknowledged issues the company has had to deal with in offering products such as the OpenSolaris OS and Java via an open source business model.Morning events at the Communit Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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IBM reports strong software, services results for Q4 IBM provided more details of its robust fourth-quarter and 2007 financial performance on Thursday following an early preview of the figures on Monday.IBM expects its overall growth to continue significantly in 2 Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Can Sun turn downloads into dollars? Sun described on Wednesday a growth strategy that depends in large part on giving away software in the hope that customers will like it enough to sign up for support contracts and perhaps buy Sun hardware on which to run it. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Sun's expanded storage lineup takes on data boom With many organizations scrambling to meet exploding demand for storage capacity without constantly expanding their IT staffs, Sun Microsystems continues to push open-source software as a solution, along with a new series of storage arrays and a hybrid server-storage Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Sun adds goodies to OpenSolaris 2008.11 Sparc support still MIA, though Well, it may be December, but it is time for the OpenSolaris 2008.11 update, the second tweak of the open source variant of the Solaris Unix platform. With the new release today, it's getting some interesting storage enhancements as well as the usual update additio Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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IBM flash memory breaks 1 million IOPS barrier IBM has claimed a major breakthrough in flash storage, with a research project that's delivering data transfer speeds of more than 1 million input/output operations per second, two and a half times faster than the industry's fastest disk storage. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Sun: OpenSolaris 'pretty freaking amazing' On the road from Indiana to Nevada While the top brass at Sun Microsystems might seem to be clueless about the company sometimes, there are plenty of people who know where the bread gets buttered - or doesn't. They know that Solaris and the servers that run it are what really matter at Sun. And t Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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PSI takes a bigger swing at IBM's mainframe biz Open mainframe server line scales up Upstart mainframe house Platform Solutions is adding a bigger box to its lineup of Itanium-based servers that have been such a burr under IBM's saddle.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Google, IBM, Sun cite developer outreach Officials from Google and IBM detailed efforts Tuesday to extend their platforms to developers via APIs and Web 2.0 technologies. But a Sun Microsystems executive cautioned that openness offered via forums such as blogs can have negative consequences if not managed we Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |