Archive for May, 2007
Sun Gains Market Share for Fifth Straight Quarter
Sun Microsystems, Inc. saw its year-to-year total server revenue market share grow for the fifth straight quarter in Q107, according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker.
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Jonathan Schwartz on the future of Sun
After just over a year as chief executive, Jonathan Schwartz is moving into a new phase as the leader of Sun Microsystems.
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Sun Microsystems Announces $3 Billion Share Repurchase Authorization
Sun announced that its Board of Directors authorized the repurchase of up to $3 billion of the company’s outstanding common shares. The repurchase plan is designed to increase shareholder value and reduce the dilutive effect of Sun’s equity compensation programs.
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Sun warns Microsoft - ‘You’d be wise to listen to your customers’
Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz has blunted whatever public niceties existed between his company and Microsoft with a revealing attack on Redmond’s lawsuit threats around open source software.
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Sun introduces JavaFX
Sun Microsystems kicked off its JavaOne conference in San Francisco last week by introducing a new suite of Java products – JavaFX.
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Motorola tells developers to think small
Motorola executives yesterday portrayed a world where whole populations are bypassing the PC and fixed-line networks to experience the internet using broadband and mobile.
Community Participation Drives Evolution of Java Micro Edition Platform
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Sun to Make Solaris More Linux Like
In an effort to spur adoption of Solaris, Sun Microsystems has begun a project code-named Indiana to try to give its operating system some of Linux’s success.
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Intel swallows Itanic Java pill
It’s a tough job. Convincing Java developers that any hardware vendor - let alone Intel in the wake of roadmap set backs - has any immediate relevance.It’s an even harder task sidestepping Intel’s thorny heritage with Sun Microsystems over its 64-bit Itanium chipset.
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What is Apache Harmony for?
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has been put on the back foot over its Project Harmony initiative, following Sun Microsystems’ decision to open-source most of its Java 2 Standard Edition (SE) Java Development Kit (JDK).
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Sun Microsystems joins porting effort for OpenOffice.org for Mac
The MacOSX porting history is basically as old as OpenOffice.org itself. Practically from the start there was the plan to have a native version for Mac, however as a first step the community decided to produce an X11 port which - since OOo already had several X11 ports from the start - seemed to be a good way to get a version quickly as temporary solution.
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