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  • Sun releases Solaris 9 for beta testing

    Sun Microsystems has begun beta testing of Solaris 9, the next version of its Unix operating system, due in 2002.

  • Unix servers: Who's the boss?

    Sun Microsystems has leapfrogged ahead of IBM in one part of a contest to see whose top-end Unix server is more powerful

  • IBM touts new workstation

    IBM has countered Sun Microsystem's claim to be leading the Unix marketplace by introducing a basic graphics workstation that it claims doubled the performance of Sun's entry-level model.

  • Sun's novel idea

    Has the sun prematurely set on Sun Microsystems? The company has proposed buying Novell for its Linux business but this move reveals Sun's myopic view on how the IT world functions.

  • Sun on Linux: What, me worry?

    Sun Microsystems' Unix has kept on keeping on since 1982, while once-mighty minicomputer makers such as Wang and Data General have been consigned to irrelevance.

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  • Unix servers: Who's the boss?

    Sun Microsystems has leapfrogged ahead of IBM in one part of a contest to see whose top-end Unix server is more powerful

  • Sun's novel idea

    Has the sun prematurely set on Sun Microsystems? The company has proposed buying Novell for its Linux business but this move reveals Sun's myopic view on how the IT world functions.

  • Unplugged: Sun chief engineer Rob Gingell

    After 17-years trying to get the other technology gurus at Sun to follow his lead recently appointed software CTO Rob Gingell is now responsible for steering the shift from Unix to Java.

  • Storage-server hybrids coming into vogue

    When designing a data centre, conventional wisdom holds that servers should do the thinking while storage systems should hang onto the data. But some industry heavyweights have begun seeing things a little differently.

  • ABC flags Itanium support

    The Australian Broadcasting Corporation plans to integrate Intel's Itanium family of processors into its IT department -- despite a general lack of popularity for the platform.

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Reviews (34)

  • Sun strategy: A Java giveaway

    Sun plans to bundle its application server software into Solaris, a move that could shake the industry.

  • Sun adds polish to portal software

    In the run up to a June 19 online launch of a whole new product line, Sun has just released its Sun One Portal Server 6, to replace the iPlanet Portal Server.

  • Power5 to quadruple server brawn

    Big Blue fires up a computer running IBM's forthcoming Power5 processor, a key milestone for the company's future plans to pressure Sun and Hewlett-Packard in the Unix server market.

  • X11: Apple's secret formula

    The company is making a play to lure Unix and Linux users to its Mac OS X operating system. Will a windowing environment do the trick?

  • Jabber releases IM software for Windows

    Jabber, a company that sells instant-messaging software with open-source roots, has released the first version of its server product geared to work on Windows, the company said Wednesday.

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