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  • Open source shapes up as rival to Oracle

    Oracle continues to dominate the database software market, but challenges lie ahead from open source, analysts say

  • Roadblocks abound in Sun's global grid plans

    While Sun Microsystems continues to roll out new applications for its pay-as-you-go grid computing network in the US, international customers face a much longer wait for the global rollout of the service.

  • Sun to acquire software patch specialist

    Sun Microsystems has agreed to acquire Aduva, a small company whose products automate the installation of software patches on large numbers of Solaris or Linux computers.

  • New Sun unit plans technology partnerships

    Sun Microsystems will launch a new business unit next week to sell hardware and software that other companies can embed into their own technology products.

  • Sun releases Jini with open-source licence

    Sun Microsystems on Wednesday released its latest Jini development toolkit under the Apache open-source licence.

  • Oracle Australia boss leaves

    Oracle Australia managing director Leigh Warren has resigned his post due to personal reasons, according to a statement from the company.

  • McNealy touts 'excitement' of backup tape

    Sun CEO defends StorageTek acquisition and adds open source to his usual hit list of Microsoft and IBM.

  • Oracle rejects grid computing assault

    Oracle has emphatically rejected claims by a leading figure in the European grid research community that vendor grid computing offerings were "overhyped".

  • Grid computing 'overhyped'

    A leading figure in the European grid research community has criticised the technology industry for exaggerating the current capabilities of their grid computing products.

  • PlayStation 3 chip has split personality

    The chip that will run the next version of the PlayStation video game machine will have nine processor cores and run faster than 4GHz, the chip's designers revealed on Monday.

  • Linux use doubles in financial organisations

    Support for Linux in the traditionally conservative world of financial services has more than doubled in the last year according to the latest market intelligence.

  • Oracle's eye on the future

    As part of its semiannual analysts' day, Oracle on Wednesday outlined a range of plans for the New Year and beyond, from integration of PeopleSoft technology to its planned entry into the market for collaboration software.

  • Enterprise ICT spending to hit AU$40 billion in 2005

    Enterprise spending on information and communications technology in Australia next calendar year is likely to climb over the AU$40 billion mark, fuelled by year-on-year growth of around 4 percent, tech analysis company Gartner said

  • Open source picks some new fights

    Open-source software, increasingly popular with budget-conscious companies, is beginning to expand into a new area: The lucrative infrastructure-software market dominated by industry giants such as Microsoft.

  • McNealy: Microsoft integration work slow going

    The integration of Microsoft and Sun Microsystems technology is progressing, but it is more complex than envisioned, according to Scott McNealy, Sun's chief executive.

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