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  • Microsoft to Linux: 'Bring it on'

    Microsoft has popped up at a Linux conference in London to fight its corner and encourage Linux developers and vendors to battle for the desktop market

  • Sun: Where's the Java payoff?

    Sun launches its annual JavaOne conference with a new determination to reverse its fortunes. For all its popularity, Java has made more money for competitors than for the company that invented it.

  • Java desktop wins over major Irish bank

    Sun Microsystems announced late yesterday that Allied Irish Bank would migrate 7,500 of its users to the Java Desktop System software.

  • Sun: JavaFX can take on Flash

    This week at Sun's JavaOne conference,the company introduced JavaFX, a rich Internet application environment set to compete with Adobe Systems' AIR and Microsoft's Silverlight.

  • Schwartz: Java FX can take on Flash

    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.

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  • Gosling: Rebirth of Java on desktops

    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.

  • Java desktop wins over major Irish bank

    Sun Microsystems announced late yesterday that Allied Irish Bank would migrate 7,500 of its users to the Java Desktop System software.

  • Battling Windows on the cheap

    Sun hopes to make inroads on the enterprise desktop by slashing the price of its Java Desktop System, which is designed to replace both Windows and Office.

  • Computers 'too expensive' - McNealy

    Sun's chief executive says industry pricing is heading for a correction, with technology costing ten times as much as it should.

  • Sun offers Happy Meal approach

    Company president Jonathan Schwartz believes the "ruthlessly competitive" pricing of the company's subscription model will be a disruptive force in the market.

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