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Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? Linux is enjoying growth, with a contingent of devotees too large to be called a cult following at this point. Solaris, meanwhile, has thrived as a longstanding, primary Unix platform geared to enterprises. But with Linux the object of all the buzz in the industry, ca 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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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 takes another swing at cloud computing Having coined the phrase "the network is the computer" more than a decade ago, Sun Microsystems could expect to be leading the march toward cloud computing, but in some ways it is still at the start line.Sun rec 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 Solaris going on Fujitsu's Intel servers Sun Microsystems is announcing an agreement Tuesday with Fujtisu Siemens Computers to have Sun's Solaris operating system distributed with select Fujitsu Primergy servers.Solaris 10 will be offered on Intel x/86 Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Sun looks to free up the rest of Java Sun Microsystems is stepping up efforts to boost Java usage in Linux shops by working to remove some final encumbrances in the open-source Java platform.By freeing these up, Java can be fully open-source and thu Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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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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Sun ships servers open to attack Sun confirmed that it has shipped some servers in its SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 lines with disk images that contain unsafe configurations that could allow remote attackers to hijack the machines.In a sec 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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Sun close to releasing xVM Server hypervisor Sun has begun an early access program for its xVM Server hypervisor, a key component of its nascent virtualization product line, and intends to make a publicly downloadable version available within about a month, according to a blog post Thursday by Steve Wilson, vice Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Sun, MySQL synergies stressed in merger With Sun Microsystems' $1 billion acquisition of open source database vendor MySQL announced Wednesday, Sun gets ownership of a major player in the open source software industry while MySQL gets the backing of a multibillion-dollar, established systems company. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: Sun reorganizes, cuts up to 18 percent of workforce Sun is laying off 15 to 18 percent of its employees as part of a restructuring plan aimed at saving $700 million to $800 million a year, and its top software executive is leaving the company, Sun said Friday.The 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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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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Sun's Schwartz cites MySQL's growth rate as incentive In deciding to buy MySQL last month, Sun was attracted to the open-source database company's very rapid growth rate and its revenue model, Sun President/CEO Jonathan Schwartz said in a keynote presentation Wednesday at SugarCRM's SugarCon 2008 conference in San Jose, Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Sun confirms plan to ship solid-state drives in 2008 Sun said Wednesday that it plans to start shipping solid-state disk technology by the end of this year.Sun officials said the company is working with undisclosed third party manufacturers to ensure that the 2.5- Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Sun UltraSparc T2 Plus servers get double the processing power Sun boosted the processing capabilities of its most popular Unix server line today with the aim of attracting bigger IT workloads, including databases, ERP applications, and large server-consolidation projects.T Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Sun rolls out its own storage appliances What Sun Microsystems lacks in size as a storage vendor it is trying to make up for with innovation, as it rolls out a series of appliances that include advanced management software and SSDs (solid-state drives). Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Sun releases source code for xVM hypervisor Sun plans to release the code for its open source server-virtualization software Wednesday, and will make a commercial version of the xVM Server available next month.xVM Server can virtualize Windows, Linux, and Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |