Archive for February, 2008
Integrating MySQL with Sun
Sun Microsystems said Tuesday that it has completed its acquisition of open-source database company MySQL for about $1 billion–and now is turning its attention to other acquisitions.
“In my view it’s the most important acquisition in Sun’s history,” Sun Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz said on a conference call Tuesday.
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Researchers turn Sun Solaris utility into fuzzing tool
Security researchers have developed a way to turn a utility for Sun Microsystems’ Solaris operating system into a rootkit-like, reverse engineering tool that can be deployed to quickly locate application vulnerabilities and create exploits.
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Sun Gets Top Marks with Higher Education Customers
“The way we learn, work and conduct research is currently undergoing a dramatic transformation around the globe,” said Joe Hartley, vice president of global government, education and healthcare at Sun Microsystems.
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JavaOne Conference Is May 6-9 in San Francisco
2008 Conference Adds New Tracks, Including Next-Generation Web, Rich Media, Consumer Technologies and More.
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Web pioneer quits OpenSolaris project
A high-profile figure in Sun Microsystems’ OpenSolaris community has quit, accusing Sun of retaining too much control over the open-source counterpart to its Solaris operating system.
Roy Fielding, co-founder of the Apache HTTP Server Project and a key contributor to the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), announced his resignation last week in a message on the community’s discussion forum.
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Sun Ignites Blades Market With Dramatic Revenue And Customer Growth
Industry’s Most Comprehensive Blade Portfolio Spans AMD Opteron, Intel Xeon and SPARC; Sun Adds First Four-Socket Intel Xeon Blade to the Sun Blade 8000 System, Bringing Power of Solaris to Quad-Core Intel Xeon Computing.
Sun unfurls four-core Xeon-fueled blade memory hole
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Sun decides TI’s not so ab fab
Sun Microsystems’ long, wafer-wrapped embrace with TI will start coming to a close. Earlier today, Sun announced that TSMC will manufacture future versions of its UltraSPARC processors.
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Sun Selects TSMC to Fab Future Generation of UltraSPARC CMT Processors
TSMC Joins Long-Standing Sun and Texas Instruments Partnership for 45 Nanometer processors; Sun and TSMC Collaborate on OpenSPARC Program.
Related: Sun Selects TSMC to Fab 45-Nanometer and Future Generation Processors
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Sun Ships xVM Management Tool
Ops Center’s features include automatic installation of firmware and bare-metal operating systems; scanning and tracking of servers in a network; and patch-management tools for SUSE, Red Hat and Solaris, according to a company statement.
Related: Sun Announces Availability of Sun xVM Ops Center, Delivers on Sun’s Virtualization Strategy - Datacenter Automation Tool Simplifies Management for Heterogeneous Environments
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