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Sun Microsystems late last week announced plans to shed between 5,000 and 6,000 jobs.
Sun reported a 7 per cent drop in first-quarter revenue on Thursday, coming in the mid-range of its previously lowered earnings forecast.
This week at Sun's JavaOne conference,the company introduced JavaFX, a rich Internet application environment set to compete with Adobe Systems' AIR and Microsoft's Silverlight.
Sun Microsystems gave developers a gift at the CommunityOne developer conference on Monday a packaged version of OpenSolaris with a new logo.
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Java has come full circle, and James Gosling has watched the 12-year journey. Gosling, who helped invent the Java programming language, talks about how Sun Microsystems plans to return Java to its roots and the role of the newly launched JavaFX Script.
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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.
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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.
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.
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