Sun Microsystems is setting out to create an open source, royalty-free video codec. Given the considerable head start of well-known, royalty-free video codecs like Dirac and Theora, you might ask why the world needs another. The answer, according to Sun, is the process the company will use to develop it — starting with a full-on, careful examination of the patent situation.

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Leading Online Music Discovery Company OurStage Builds Enterprise Platform Capable of Rapid Expansion and Growth with OpenSolaris, Solaris ZFS and Other Advanced Open Storage Technologies from Sun.

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Sun Microsystems founder and Chairman talks about open source and the unification of Unix.

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Fujitsu is developing an eight-core version of its Sparc64 processor, which should give a performance boost to the Sparc Enterprise Servers that Fujitsu jointly develops with Sun Microsystems.

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Sun Microsystems is challenging database partner Oracle with a middleware offer to woo customers of its newly acquired BEA Systems business.

Sun has capitalized on Oracle jacking up licensing of the BEA middleware products with an offer for its own open-source suite complete with a 12-month price lock in. The offer expires on the day before Halloween, October 30, 2008.

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Quad-Core AMD Opteron-based Sun Server Sets x86 SPECjbb2005 World Record, Beats HP and Dell by Up to 85%.

Sun Microsystems has begun an early access program for its xVM Server hypervisor, a key component of its nascent virtualization product line, and intends to make a publicly downloadable version available within about a month, according to a blog post Thursday by Steve Wilson, vice president of xVM at Sun.

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