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    The hardware giant's CEO has been quick to put the kibosh on a rumour that he is about to take the company private with the aid of an unnamed investment firm

  • Sun Australia denies lay-off rumours

    Sun Microsystems Australia has flatly denied rumours the company has begun laying off staff as part of a global cut back of 6,000 staff.

  • April Fool's joke on Sun takeover wreaks havoc

    Serguei Beloussov woke up early on Tuesday to see people in the world of virtualisation commenting on the news that he had sold his company, Parallels, to Sun for US$205 million.

  • McNealy steps down at Sun

    Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy has stepped down as chief executive, and has been replaced by president Jonathan Schwartz, the company said Monday in the United States.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 to subsidise Oracle database software

    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.

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  • Sun plays catch up with Web services

    The company, sensing it has fallen behind rivals Microsoft and IBM in Web services leadership, is launching a renewed strategy in an attempt to play catch up.

  • Processor wars: Whose chips are down?

    Diversity and choice are good things, we are always told. But in the case of processors, diversity may not be the answer.

  • Office politics: Microsoft Office XP vs Sun StarOffice 6

    Sun would like to think it can succeed where others have failed­â€"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?

  • CPU roadmap: server processors

    In the world of processors, attention seems firmly focused on the fast-paced desktop and mobile markets. But that doesn't mean that there's nothing going on in server-land.

  • 2007: How was it for security?

    Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.

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