items tagged with Sun Microsystems
Server revenue decline worst in 13 years
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Market News
2009-06-02 07:44:16
There’s been a dramatic fall in server revenues across European, Middle East and African (EMEA) markets, with IDC recording its fastest year-on-year decline in revenues since it started recording them 13 years.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Market News
2009-06-02 07:44:16
There’s been a dramatic fall in server revenues across European, Middle East and African (EMEA) markets, with IDC recording its fastest year-on-year decline in revenues since it started recording them 13 years.
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VirtualBox 2.2.4 fixes assorted bugs
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Open Source
2009-06-01 22:00:57
When it comes to virtualisation, VMware, Microsoft's Hyper-V, and the Citrix-backed Xen get the lion's share of attention, but the open source VirtualBox is gaining a lot of friends. The latest release - VirtualBox 2.2.4 - includes plenty of fixes.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Open Source
2009-06-01 22:00:57
When it comes to virtualisation, VMware, Microsoft's Hyper-V, and the Citrix-backed Xen get the lion's share of attention, but the open source VirtualBox is gaining a lot of friends. The latest release - VirtualBox 2.2.4 - includes plenty of fixes.
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Sun Java System Communications Express security advisory
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-05-22 08:15:53
Yet another critical cross-site scripting vulnerability has been reported, this time impacting those using Sun's Java System Communications Express application.
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-05-22 08:15:53
Yet another critical cross-site scripting vulnerability has been reported, this time impacting those using Sun's Java System Communications Express application.
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Ellison wants Oracle to be like Apple or Cisco
Written By: Jake Widman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2009-05-08 13:56:22
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has vowed to maintain Sun's hardware business as part of a plan for Oracle to build combined hardware/software systems.
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Written By: Jake Widman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2009-05-08 13:56:22
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has vowed to maintain Sun's hardware business as part of a plan for Oracle to build combined hardware/software systems.
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The eWAY for Macquarie with half-million dollar deal
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-21 04:01:05
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-21 04:01:05
Macquarie Hosting, a division of Macquarie Telecom, has sealed a three year, half million dollar deal with Australian electronic payment gateway providers, eWAY.
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Oracle to layoff more than 10,000 Sun staff: analysts
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-20 20:33:41
The US$7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corp will result in layoffs of between 10,000 and 15,000 staff in the first two years, according to industry analysts. In so doing Oracle will accomplish what Sun didn't have the stomach for and save billions of dollars each year they say.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-20 20:33:41
The US$7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corp will result in layoffs of between 10,000 and 15,000 staff in the first two years, according to industry analysts. In so doing Oracle will accomplish what Sun didn't have the stomach for and save billions of dollars each year they say.
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Oracle: what happens to MySQL and OpenSolaris?
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-20 18:50:21
From a company that was touting its own progress and supposed ability to steer itself through difficult technology waters on its own, Sun Microsystems, over a few months, became an entity that was desperately looking to be acquired.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-20 18:50:21
From a company that was touting its own progress and supposed ability to steer itself through difficult technology waters on its own, Sun Microsystems, over a few months, became an entity that was desperately looking to be acquired.
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Oracle vertically integrates paying $7.4B for Sun
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-20 09:05:35
In what is being viewed as a move to vertically integrate its business, business software giant Oracle has agreed to buy struggling servers hardware vendor Sun Microsystems for US$7.4 billion cash. The deal should come as welcome to Sun jusr two weeks after acquisition talks with IBM broke down.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-20 09:05:35
In what is being viewed as a move to vertically integrate its business, business software giant Oracle has agreed to buy struggling servers hardware vendor Sun Microsystems for US$7.4 billion cash. The deal should come as welcome to Sun jusr two weeks after acquisition talks with IBM broke down.
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IBM backs out of Sun deal; Sun stock suffers
Written By: Jake Widman
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-06 13:11:09
According to reports in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, Sun turned down a formal acquisition offer from IBM on Saturday. On Sunday, IBM withdrew its offer, and on Monday, Sun's stock dropped 23 percent.
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Written By: Jake Widman
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-06 13:11:09
According to reports in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, Sun turned down a formal acquisition offer from IBM on Saturday. On Sunday, IBM withdrew its offer, and on Monday, Sun's stock dropped 23 percent.
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Southern hemisphere's largest HPCs coming to Australia
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2009-03-18 20:02:26
Australian weather forecasters are set to get a supercomputer 12 times as powerful as their existing system. More than 2500 Nehalem-based Sun Blades will be installed in Canberra and Melbourne.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2009-03-18 20:02:26
Australian weather forecasters are set to get a supercomputer 12 times as powerful as their existing system. More than 2500 Nehalem-based Sun Blades will be installed in Canberra and Melbourne.
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IBM to cement server dominance with US$6.5 billion Sun acquisition
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-03-18 17:44:51
Computer hardware giant IBM is seeking to clear out from its rival server makers by acquiring the fast declining Sun Microsystems for about double its present market value. Sun is currently the number four server player, while IBM holds a narrow lead at the top over rival hardware monolith HP.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-03-18 17:44:51
Computer hardware giant IBM is seeking to clear out from its rival server makers by acquiring the fast declining Sun Microsystems for about double its present market value. Sun is currently the number four server player, while IBM holds a narrow lead at the top over rival hardware monolith HP.
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Kernel Conference Australia 2009 call for papers
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Information technology news
Category: Open Source
2009-03-11 17:31:12
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: Information technology news
Category: Open Source
2009-03-11 17:31:12
Sun Microsystems and the University of Queensland have joined forces to produce the first ever Kernel Conference Australia in July this year. Speakers include luminaries from Sun, Intel, BSD and Apple.
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Long growth cycle comes to abrupt halt for Asia Pacific server shipments
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology Industry
Category: Deals & Wheels - Contracts
2009-03-10 07:29:01
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology Industry
Category: Deals & Wheels - Contracts
2009-03-10 07:29:01
After twenty-seven quarters of steady growth there’s now been a damaging decline in server shipments in the Asia Pacific region, down 5.8 percent year-on-year, and with a major impact on revenues across the main five APAC sub regions.
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HP offers Solaris on ProLiant
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-25 16:34:46
A relationship refresh between HP and Sun sees Solaris become a key operating system for the market-leading ProLiant server family.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-25 16:34:46
A relationship refresh between HP and Sun sees Solaris become a key operating system for the market-leading ProLiant server family.
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MySQL forks: Monty splits from Sun
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-25 07:38:11
Sometimes open source projects "fork." Disagreements over direction cause a splinter group to hive off and maintain their own separate code base. This is going to happen with well-known heavyweight FOSS staple, MySQL, after the original author quit Sun Microsystems earlier this month.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-25 07:38:11
Sometimes open source projects "fork." Disagreements over direction cause a splinter group to hive off and maintain their own separate code base. This is going to happen with well-known heavyweight FOSS staple, MySQL, after the original author quit Sun Microsystems earlier this month.
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Open source: how Sun sees it
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-01-29 17:57:18
Simon Phipps is a natural when it comes to speaking. The man has a good turn of phrase, is skilled in the art of repartee, and can engage an audience very well.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-01-29 17:57:18
Simon Phipps is a natural when it comes to speaking. The man has a good turn of phrase, is skilled in the art of repartee, and can engage an audience very well.
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Sun 'can be biggest open source company'
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-01-28 17:45:13
Ulf Michael Widenius, better known to open source folk as Monty, has a few things in common with Linux creator Linus Torvalds.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-01-28 17:45:13
Ulf Michael Widenius, better known to open source folk as Monty, has a few things in common with Linux creator Linus Torvalds.
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LCA2009: The third wave of open source
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-01-22 18:46:19
Open source has reached the third wave of its evolution and those who have been using the older models which were procurement-driven need to adapt.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-01-22 18:46:19
Open source has reached the third wave of its evolution and those who have been using the older models which were procurement-driven need to adapt.
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How on earth do you make a dime out of Linux and open source software?
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-01-05 07:32:32
Software piracy is a scourge on the world of computing. Yet it's a problem the open source community doesn't have. That makes sense; it's all freely available. But this raises the question: if it's free how do the developers make any money? And how can it be any damn good?
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-01-05 07:32:32
Software piracy is a scourge on the world of computing. Yet it's a problem the open source community doesn't have. That makes sense; it's all freely available. But this raises the question: if it's free how do the developers make any money? And how can it be any damn good?
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Sun's Christmas present: VirtualBox 2.1.0
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2008-12-18 17:30:19
VirtualBox is increasingly being seen as an alternative to virtualisation software from VMware and other vendors. The latest version presents further challenges to the better-known alternatives.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2008-12-18 17:30:19
VirtualBox is increasingly being seen as an alternative to virtualisation software from VMware and other vendors. The latest version presents further challenges to the better-known alternatives.
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