Forecasts of economic gloom do not apply to the hardware market just yet, according to analyst firm Gartner, which has predicted that the market for both PCs and servers will remain in growth this year, and at least for the start of next year.
Sun Microsystems on Monday will launch a server with four Opteron processors, sources said, the latest step in the company's effort to expand its product line beyond its own processors.
Sun Microsystems has scored a publicity coup ahead of the much-heralded arrival of Microsoft chairman Bill Gates in Australia, with a NSW government minister announcing today Sun would replace Microsoft in providing an e-mail and calendar system across 1,500 users in the state Roads and Traffic Authority.
Sun Microsystems has agreed to acquire Kealia, a start-up that designs servers with Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor and that employs Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim.
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.
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A lot of the fuss behind virtualisation is focused around the datacentre. That's all well and good, but there is a whole world of virtualisation for workstations where competition for the best suite is red-hot and constantly improving.
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Sun's free StarOffice 6.0 offers features that could draw firms away from Microsoft applications, especially in the face of Microsoft's potentially costly new licensing schemes.
StarOffice might not be ready to totally displace Microsoft Office in the enterprise, but version 6 beta shows the suite has the stuff to loosen Microsoft's iron grip.
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