Archive for December, 2007
Sun readies its first server virtualization offering
Sun Microsystems Inc. next month plans to release the first commercial product in its xVM line of virtualization software: a server management console called xVM Ops Center.
Ops Center is a virtual server management package that will support both x86 and Sparc systems running Sun’s Solaris operating system as well as Red Hat Linux and SUSE Linux, according to Sun, which announced its delivery and pricing plans for the software today.
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Sun animates Open Source software with $1-m transfusion
A transfusion worth a million dollars will waken even the most moribund to feverish activity. For the world’s Open Source Software (OSS) community, it might just make the difference between great ideas withering from lack of support to tomorrow’s canniest solutions.
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The day Microsoft ‘embraced and extended’ Java
Now December 7 is dawning bright and blue over America’s Pacific coast, and with it breaks the news that startles an industry. “Today Microsoft has announced that it has signed a letter of intent with Sun for a Java technology source license… Microsoft has agreed in principle to provide to Sun Microsoft’s reference implementation of the Java virtual machine,” said Java software division director of corporate marketing George Paolini.
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