Opinions are mixed amongst Australian chief information officers, partners and analysts on whether Oracle's plans to buy Sun Microsystems will end up with a positive or negative result.
Sun Microsystems late last week announced plans to shed between 5,000 and 6,000 jobs.
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.
Adobe is aiming for greater use of its Flash Player multimedia Web software within mobile and other non-PC devices by launching its Open Screen Project an industry alliance it hopes will garner the support of large vendors in the embedded multimedia space.
Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.
Adobe's attempt to bring its AIR platform to all handheld devices smells strongly of Sun's attempt to dominate the smartphone market with Java. But will the software giant's efforts suffer the same fate?
A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory
Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.
Google's Security team has discovered vulnerabilities in the Sun Java Runtime Environment that threatens the security of all platforms, browsers and even mobile devices.
After a year on the job, Sun's CEO says the company is relevant again but still has problems to fix. In this interview, he admits losing sight of the developer community towards the end of the 1990s, and making what he described as a very bad decision about the company's commitment to Solaris.
Fujitsu's foray into Centrino 2 laptops is solid, but the competition is offering more features at a lower price.
The Dell Latitude E is a glimpse into the future of laptops. With high expandability, configurable and a strong design, it should suit most corporate environments.
Processors are now called upon to handle everything from simple text and graphics, through 3D games, to serious tasks like video rendering. We put Intel and AMD's desktop CPUs through the labs to see how they cope.
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.
The group of programmers working to run Linux on Microsoft's Xbox video game console is seeking the software giant's seal of approval.
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