Sun Microsystems announced on Tuesday it will acquire software maker Tarantella in a US$25 million cash deal it hopes will boost sales to corporate America.
Sun Microsystems' US$4.1 billion acquisition of Storage Technology is a done deal, giving the server and software company a source of growing revenue and a major storage sales force.
The balance of Linux power shifted Tuesday, with Novell announcing an IBM-assisted plan to acquire SuSE Linux.
As a few hardware and software suppliers come to increasingly dominate, companies must use caution, Gartner advises.
Sun has released a major update to its open-source desktop virtualisation tool xVM VirtualBox, adding support for Apple's Mac OS X and Solaris host operating systems, in addition to other improvements.
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As a few hardware and software suppliers come to increasingly dominate, companies must use caution, Gartner advises.
Budgets may be tight but there's still some room for spending. CIOs and CTOs say they're choosier about what they buy--they're looking to save money and make disparate systems work together.
Multicore processors have been around since 2005, when Intel shipped its first dual-core processor and the advantages of many cores have been widely touted, but a working model for costing software to work with them is still on its way.
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In the next few years, a "phase change" will take place as companies stop running their own customised computing infrastructure, Sun Microsystems Chief Technology Officer Greg Papadopoulos predicted Thursday.
Sun Microsystems will release new software that takes advantage of the Liberty technology for simplifying the process of signing on to multiple Web sites.
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Sun would like to think it can succeed where others have failedÂÂâ€"in breaking Microsoft's stranglehold on the office productivity marketâ€"by offering a product that's almost as good as Microsoft Office at a much lower price. Do the sums add up?
The next version of Microsoft's Office software will run only on the latest releases of the company's operating systems, leaving older OS users in the dark.
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