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 day after Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy said open-source software is his company's friend, a prominent advocate of the collaborative programming philosophy has called upon the server maker to open the code of Java.
Today's microprocessors will become extinct by the end of the decade, to be replaced by computers built onto a single chip, Sun Microsystems Chief Technology Officer Greg Papadopoulos said Tuesday.
"After you." That is essentially what technology companies hear when asked to submit their original technologies to standards bodies or for open-source licenses.
Big Blue heavyweight Bob wants Sun's Java to be open-sourced and ultimately turned into a standard.
Big Blue heavyweight Bob wants Sun's Java to be open-sourced and ultimately turned into a standard.
Microsoft and Intel see Web services popping up everywhere, but their vision is strangely reminiscent of archrival Sun Microsystems' with an earlier technology called Jini.
Competitors will try to use uncertainty to win customers from HP, analysts predict. It's not yet clear whether they will succeed.
IBM's Bob Sutor tells why service-oriented architecture is crucial to Web services development.
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Commentary: A shift in corporate IT's priorities might play to Microsoft's advantage, but it will take a quasi-religious conversion to get IT directors to accept the Microsoft way.
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