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Sun Stockholders to Vote on Oracle Deal July 16

admin — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:25:29 +0000

Sun Microsystems stockholders will get their chance to vote on Oracle’s proposed $7.4 billion acquisition when they meet July 16 at Sun’s Santa Clara, Calif., campus. The deal would end more than seven months of negotiations between Sun and several interested suitors—including Oracle, IBM and HP—vying for Sun. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has said his company will continue to invest in Sun’s Java technology, but there are questions around the future of Sun’s hardware business.

Oracle-Sun acquisition: marriage destined for divorce

What’s the Future for OpenSolaris?

admin — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:23:56 +0000

As it comes closer to becoming reality, Oracle’s purchase of Sun makes more sense, for the simple reason that there is plenty of good technology in Sun — like Java — that Oracle can put to good use. But what is Oracle going to do with its newly acquired OSes?

Sun updates JavaFX and Java SE

admin — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:06:53 +0000

Sun Microsystems has delivered updates to JavaFX, its platform for rich Internet application development, and to Java Platform Standard Edition.

JavaFX 1.2, launched at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, adds support for Linux and OpenSolaris. The software previously worked with the Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Mac OS X operating systems only.

Oracle’s Ellison gambles with OpenOffice’s future

admin — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:06:16 +0000

Oracle was the first top-tier IT vendor to announce it was putting its key product - the database - on Linux. The logic was simple: Linux freed Oracle from depending on a single company for operating system - that company was Microsoft.

OpenSolaris is becoming more like regular Solaris

admin — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:05:33 +0000

Support deals are now the same for the open source and commercial versions of the OS; open source upgrade also adds Sparc support.

Java Gets New Garbage Collector, But Only If You Buy Support

admin — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:44:19 +0000

“The monetization of Java has begun. Sun released the Java 1.6.0_14 JDK and JRE today which include a cool new garbage collector called G1. There is just one catch. Even though it is included in the distribution, the release notes state ‘Although G1 is available for use in this release, note that production use of G1 is only permitted where a Java support contract has been purchased.’

OpenSolaris Set to Rock 2009 CommunityOne Conference

admin — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:25:59 +0000

Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced a series of OpenSolaris events taking place as part of the 2009 CommunityOne conference, June 1-3, 2009, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Full details on OpenSolaris activities at CommunityOne are available at: http://www.opensolaris.com/communityone/.

Solaris 11 rumored for mid-2010 release

admin — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:24:51 +0000

The next version of Sun’s Solaris operating system could be released sometime in mid-2010. Though nothing has been publicly announced, Sun apparently has been telling its customers that this is the targeted release date for Solaris 11, codenamed Nevada. However, the company also has made it clear that the date is “not set in stone,” probably alluding to market conditions.

Group aims to keep MySQL healthy

admin — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:47:02 +0000

One of original authors of MySQL, Michael ‘Monty’ Widenius, has founded the Open Database Alliance, a consortium that aims to become the industry hub for the open source database.

The move was announced Wednesday. The two founding parties of the vendor-neutral consortium are Widenius’ engineering company, Monty Program, and the MySQL services and support company Percona.

Is an IBM purchase of Red Hat inevitable?

admin — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:46:21 +0000

Despite a bevy of questions—looming competition from Oracle, takeover rumors and a weak economy—Red Hat appears to be humming along, according to Jeffries analyst Katherine Egbert. But in the long run, Red Hat will have to be subsumed into a large company—most likely IBM.