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Sun Should Loosen Up Enterprise Unix Roundup: "Last week, Simon Phipps, Chief Open Source Officer at Sun Microsystems, stated in an interview that much of the current animosity from the open source community toward Sun has its origins in the way Sun used to treat the community..." Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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Five insane upgrades you should never do Just because you can do something, that doesn't mean you should. That old truism goes double for computers. But some PC geeks are so fanatical about performance, so doggedly determined to push their hardware to extremes, that they'll go to ridiculous lengths to wring Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Sun claims big leap with MySQL upgrade next week MySQL developers should be able to get their hands on a major update to the open-source database next week when Sun hosts its first MySQL conference since acquiring the company earlier this year.Sun will use th Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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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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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 |
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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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MySQL users mostly unfazed by Sun acquisition Customers at the MySQL conference this week said Sun's acquisition of the database company could increase MySQL's credibility among senior IT decision makers still skittish about using open-source software.There Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Sun aims lasers to boost computer performance In an attempt to improve computer performance, Sun is working on technology to let chips communicate using lasers instead of electricity, in what would be a break from conventional computer design.The company on 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 lays off approximately 1,000 employees Following through on a restructuring plan announced in May, Sun on Thursday laid off approximately 1,000 employees in the United States and Canada.All told, the company plans to reduce its workforce by approxima 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's Da Vinci Machine broadens JVM coverage Sun is working on technology to make it easier to run different languages on the Java Virtual Machine. Called the Da Vinci Machine, the project is being described by Sun as "a multi-language renaissance for the Java Virtual Machine architecture." The project features Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft, Red Hat, HP, Sun boost desktop virtualization If there is any doubt that vendors want to poke desktop virtualization into the psyche of corporate IT, then last week's rash of vendor announcements should put all that to rest.Microsoft, Red Hat, HP, and Sun a Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Sun Snags Innotek--Should I Wince? InformationWeek: "Sun just made another open source acquisition: Innotek, the makers of the open source VirtualBox virtual machine application. Unlike MySQL, though, this is one open source acquisition that hits home for me in a major way..." Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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Sun's Niagara 3 will have 16-cores and 16 threads per core 256 thread per socket rocket Exclusive Sun Microsystems looks poised to lead the "mainstream" multi-core race for at least a couple more years. By late 2009, the server maker should deliver a third major revision of its Niagara processor which will have 16 cores and an astonishing 16 threads per Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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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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Sun SPOT technology set for open source Sun is expected to announce next week that it will make the Sun SPOT (Small Programmable Object Technology) device platform available via open source, but a user expressed concerns about Sun's commitment to the technology. 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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Update: Sun to acquire MySQL for $1 billion Sun Microsystems will pay $1 billion for Swedish software company MySQL, whose open source database is used for some of the most widely visited Web sites in the world.Sun said the deal will augment its position 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 |