Archive for the 'Sun News' Category
Sun’s OMS Video codec project is a means to an end
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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Sun Microsystems Fuels Revolution for Open Storage
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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Interview with Scott McNealy
Sun Microsystems founder and Chairman talks about open source and the unification of Unix.
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Sun attempts to whip BEA users out from under Oracle
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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Sun Microsystems Announces Sun OpenSSO Express
Sun has announced the availability of Sun OpenSSO Express, a new offering that provides enterprise support and indemnification for the technologies available in the OpenSSO project. OpenSSO is the world’s largest open source, identity management project, providing highly scalable, high-performance single sign-on, access management, federation, and secure web services capabilities. For more information and to download OpenSSO, visit: http://wiki.opensso.org.
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Sun Takes a Shine to Linux in New Web Stack
Much of the open source community relies on the popular LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) application stack, a setup that traditionally has been offered through Linux vendors.
Sun Microsystems is now joining the party with its own take on the LAMP stack — one that could pose a challenge to the LAMP offerings from Linux vendors, since it’s aimed at users of Linux as well as Sun Solaris. Eventually, it will support Windows and Mac OS X, too.
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Sun to support AMP plus Linux
Sun Microsystems is putting the “L” back into LAMP with plans to support customers running the open-source Apache, MySQL and Perl or PHP (AMP) stack on Linux.
The company said it plans paid, enterprise-level support for AMP on Linux in the fourth-quarter of 2008, in addition to supporting AMP on its preferred platform, of course, Solaris. Support of AMP on Solaris servers is due this quarter.
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MySQL: Back to Its Roots via Sun
During an on-stage discussion at OSCON, the Open Source Convention by technology publisher O’Reilly, Monty Widenius, founder of MySQL AB, and Brian Aker, the director of technology for MySQL, set the record straight.
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Who would buy Sun?
Ashlee Vance has an interesting article on the future prospects for Sun Microsystems now that its market cap is $7.7B. Sun needs to maintain at least a $10B market cap to remain a potential holding of large cap funds. If Sun’s market cap slips below $10B for too long, large cap funds holding Sun will have to sell and thereby cause a further drop in Sun’s market cap. With short interest growing from 25 million shares to 57 million shares over the past month, compared to a 3-month trading volume of 17 million, the sharks are definitely circling.
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Sun Microsystems Releases New GlassFish
Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq: JAVA), announced the immediate availability of a new offering to help customers achieve greater return on investment (ROI) and significantly reduce the costs of deploying and managing database and application server software. Sun GlassFish and MySQL Unlimited enables companies of all sizes to deploy the software on unlimited servers across their entire organization for a flat annual subscription. For more details see: http://www.sun.com/mysql/glassfish.
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Project Wonderland
Some of the key aspects of this dynamic virtual world are voice communication with distance attenuation, the ability to join a Wonderland meeting through a regular phone if a computer is not handy, and the sharing of applications such as Open Office. Wonderland is currently being used by educational facilities and can be used by other organizations for virtual collaboration. Since the project is an Open Source project, users can tweak the tools available to suit their particular purpose.
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Shrinking Sun under the gun
Here, with the stock market melting, we find Sun Microsystems in most uncomfortable territory. It’s got a stock market value of $7.7bn, which means that the one-time lord of the servers is a mid-cap company.
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