Sun Microsystems may have streamlined its Java development process but some smaller partners are still unhappy.
Many open source developers remain sceptical of Sun because their memories of the company focus on Sun's interactions with the community in 2001/2002, which Sun's chief open source officer Simon Phipps concedes was a period where Sun "screwed up".
IBM has plans in place to spend tens of millions of dollars to coax new customers to buy the company's mainframes.
Sun Microsystems gave developers a gift at the CommunityOne developer conference on Monday a packaged version of OpenSolaris with a new logo.
OpenJDK is set to benefit from Sun's lesson with OpenSolaris that just because a project's governance is "dreamworthy", it may not suit developers.
Last week I had the chance to hear HP give their world view on why you should join them and Intel on Itanium for your next generation of servers.
I get the feeling there will be a lot of tired tech buzzwords from fads gone by which will be wheeled out soon with the suffix "2.0" bolted on.
IT managers have to put IT across to non-professionals on the board, and get what they want from suppliers. Research shows that they are making progress in both these things - even if Sun Microsystems doesn't think so.
The idea of getting a robust, scalable operating system for free hasn't clicked with many enterprises -- until now.
After a year on the job, Sun's CEO says the company is relevant again but still has problems to fix. In this interview, he admits losing sight of the developer community towards the end of the 1990s, and making what he described as a very bad decision about the company's commitment to Solaris.
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.
James Gosling discusses Sun's decision to release Java under the General Public License, whether open source is more secure than proprietary software, how IT departments can cut development costs, and why Microsoft still owns the desktop.
Many open source developers remain sceptical of Sun because their memories of the company focus on Sun's interactions with the community in 2001/2002, which Sun's chief open source officer Simon Phipps concedes was a period where Sun "screwed up".
The efforts of Microsoft to pressure the Linux community over alleged and unspecified patents is akin to "patent terrorism", according to a local executive for Sun Microsystems.
OpenOffice.org is the freely available and freely developed successor to Sun's StarOffice and is a full office suite available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.
While StarOffice is suitable for students and home users, its poor Microsoft compatibility limits its business uses.
Thin clients seem to be a perennial runner-up to full-featured desktops, but we think the time is right to stop thinking "what if?" and to get rid of those clunky desktop PCs.
Sun plans to bundle its application server software into Solaris, a move that could shake the industry.
Sun Microsystems has released the first beta of OpenOffice, the open-source sibling of its StarOffice package, for Mac OS X computers.
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