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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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 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.

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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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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A Morgan Stanley analyst on Friday upgraded Dell Inc. and cut her rating on Sun Microsystems Inc., saying conditions in the computer server market are proving challenging for Sun but providing opportunities for Dell.

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Sun Microsystems Inc. introduced a new server virtualization product called Sun xVM for x86 servers, which will be available later this summer. The bare-metal hypervisor is based on Citrix Systems Inc.’s open source Xen technologies and Solaris. It can host several guest operating systems, including Windows and Linux.

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New GlassFish Partner Initiative to Provide Developers Unprecedented Access to Expanding GlassFish Ecosystem of More Than 100 SIs and ISVs.

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At JavaOne in San Francisco, company touts a rich Internet application environment and a new cloud computing service. Plus, Neil Young sings Sun.

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PHP is the latest language getting the NetBeans treatment, with a PHP version of Sun Microsystems’ open-source environment.

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The first supported first version of Sun Microsystems’ OpenSolaris, AKA Project Indiana, makes its debut today with additional backing from Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud.

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Sun launches OpenSolaris, inks deal with Amazon

Sun Microsystems’ shares took a bath today, slipping nearly 23 per cent after the company surprised investors with its worst financial results in over a year. The market reaction sent Sun stock down to its lowest point in nearly six years.

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Sun Microsystems Reports Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2008 Results