Sun Microsystems is considering striking up partnerships with mainstream Linux sellers such as Red Hat and SuSE--a move that would turn the tech giant into an ally, rather than a rival, of those companies.
Sun Microsystems will begin releasing its Solaris operating system as open-source software on Tuesday, starting with a new performance analysis and debugging tool called Dynamic Tracing.
Sun Microsystems has quietly released a version of its Java Desktop System software based on Solaris, a new step in the company's plan to try to transfer some of Linux's glory to its own operating system.
In a bid to compete better against IBM and Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems said Tuesday it will bundle Oracle's database with higher-end Unix servers and partially subsidise the fees customers would otherwise have to pay to use the software.
In a bid to increase the relevance of its processor line, Sun Microsystems pledged Tuesday to make the underlying designs of its new UltraSparc T1 an open-source project.
A top Red Hat executive has attacked the open-source credentials of its sometime business partner Sun Microsystems.
Sun Microsystems chose to employ the human touch when it introduced more than five million lines of Solaris source code onto the Internet.
The newest version of Sun Microsystems' StarOffice desktop software suite, a competitor to Microsoft Office, is now available online.
Sun Microsystems has taken additional steps in its effort to increase the hardware support that's needed to make a version of its Solaris operating system for Intel processors useful.
Sun Microsystems plans to announce Tuesday that its Java Enterprise System, a collection of server software, will be available on two rivals' operating systems in the first quarter of 2005.
After three years of declines, Sun Microsystems returned to revenue growth in its fourth quarter of fiscal 2004.
Despite a new window into Microsoft's proprietary technology, Sun Microsystems won't stop its call for open standards, executives and analysts say.
With its next version of the Solaris operating system, Sun Microsystems plans to take a new direction with its technology to divide a server into a large number of independent partitions.
Sun Microsystems plans to release servers based on its future high-end Rock processors by 2008, signaling the company's long-term commitment to the embattled Sparc family.
In a move that reflects the growing power of the open-source programming movement, Sun Microsystems plans Monday to share an experimental user interface for desktop computers called Project Looking Glass.
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