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.
Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy has stepped down as chief executive, and has been replaced by president Jonathan Schwartz, the company said Monday in the United States.
Sun Microsystems will open-source Java, it just has to figure out how to do it, company executives said on Tuesday.
Despite relinquishing the chief executive officer role at Sun Microsystems last week, chairman Scott McNealy has no intention of reducing his public profile as the company continues to hammer its open-source-is-a-profitable-future message.
Sun Microsystems hopes to sell a version of Java to phone companies that will bring network access to the world's computers, executives said at the JavaOne trade show in the US this week.
Whenever the industry's top execs come together to speak to the masses, expectations are high. This year's Oracle OpenWorld conference provided an insight into which vendors have intriguing grand plans, and which ones prefer to rely on marketing bluff.
While Sun Microsystems went to great efforts to portray Scott McNealy's stepping down from the CEO role as a natural transition and part of a well-thought out succession plan, it was clearly not something the company had chance to chat to its printers about.
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.
Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's president, says the company has mended its ways since the days when "we didn't listen" to customers. Can the Silicon Valley luminary brighten up its prospects?
Scott McNealy sees glory days ahead for new CEO Jonathan Schwartz. Are they cut from the same cloth?
Company president Jonathan Schwartz believes the "ruthlessly competitive" pricing of the company's subscription model will be a disruptive force in the market.
Company president Jonathan Schwartz has ordered an open-source makeover. Can it put Sun back on the right course after continuous periods of revenue decline?
At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Dell CEO Michael Dell share the stage to announce that Sun's open-source operating system, Solaris, will be shipping on Dell servers.
Sun Microsystems' software products will support AMD's new Opteron--but not initially the chip's 64-bit capabilities that distinguish it from rival Intel processors.
Sun Microsystems announced Monday that it will resume selling servers with Intel's Xeon processor, restoring a hardware partnership and extending it to software collaboration.
Red Hat and Sun Microsystems are gearing up to sell Linux for desktop computers, the companies' chief executives said Tuesday.
Apple's move to adopt Intel chips will inevitably result in new victors and casualities in the desktop battlefield. Here's a sample.
The deals to ship Sun's Java technology in all the PC makers' machines are a poke in the eye for Microsoft, which has been lacklustre in its support for the software.
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