John Loiacono, Sun Microsystems' executive vice president for software, is leaving the company to join Adobe Systems as senior vice president of its Creatives Group.
Adobe has knocked open-source creative tools with executive John Loiacono claiming open-source software is not right for everything or everyone.
Java FX -- which is geared to make it easier to build flashy Web sites and Java desktop applications -- is ready to take on Adobe Systems' Flash and Microsoft's Silverlight software, according to Sun Microsystem's chief executive.
Adobe may look to the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) platform to launch an office productivity suite to take on Microsoft.
Sun Microsystems plans to announce its new software chief on Tuesday in the US.
In the increasingly Google-YouTube-Web 2.0 age we inhabit, it's become fashionable to dismiss Windows as a relic.
The big, booming nation is much on the mind of Adobe's CEO. Then there are the little matters of Apple and Microsoft.
A growing roster of de facto standards is testing the need for bureaucratic agencies and design-by-committee technologies.
Java has come full circle, and James Gosling has watched the 12-year journey. Gosling, who helped invent the Java programming language, talks about how Sun Microsystems plans to return Java to its roots and the role of the newly launched JavaFX Script.
Developers wanting to use Microsoft's Office Open XML specification will need to brush up on their legal skills.
Adobe's latest incarnation of Acrobat is top of the line, highly featured software. Just make sure you need all the bells and whistles before you pay the AU$999 price tag.
The organization behind OpenOffice on Wednesday released a trial version of one of the first major updates to the free open-source office software. A beta release of version 1.1 of OpenOffice is available now from OpenOffice.org.
While StarOffice is suitable for students and home users, its poor Microsoft compatibility limits its business uses.
Sun Microsystems is set to offer a test release of a new version of the software package, one of the company's most visible efforts to erode Microsoft's dominance over PC computing.
ThinkFree Office 3 is a low-cost alternative to Microsoft Office that lacks advanced tools but offers a free online component that's a handy work in progress for frequent travellers.
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