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Google gears Java 5 Web Toolkit

admin — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:07:32 +0000

Google is this week expected to release the long-awaited update to its Web Toolkit (GWT) adding support for Java 5 Standard Edition language features to speed development and performance of JavaScript.

JavaOne ‘08: Sun starts delivering

admin — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:20:35 +0000

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

Analysts Sees Server Challenges For Sun, Opportunities For Dell

admin — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:20:01 +0000

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.

Sun Unveils New Systems Powered By Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors

admin — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:39:39 +0000

New Sun Fire Servers, Powered by the Solaris 10 OS and Other Industry-Standard Operating Systems, Deliver Market-Leading Performance, Compute Density and Memory in Half the Space.

Sun Microsystems enters x86 server virtualization arena

admin — Thu, 15 May 2008 00:32:43 +0000

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.

Sun gives servers an Opteron quad job

admin — Thu, 15 May 2008 00:31:57 +0000

New Sun Fire Servers, Powered by the Solaris 10 OS and Other Industry-Standard Operating Systems, Deliver Market-Leading Performance, Compute Density and Memory in Half the Space.

Sun Unveils New Systems Powered By Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors

OpenOffice.org 3 beta lands

admin — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:09:04 +0000

Sun Microsystems yesterday released the first beta of OpenOffice.org 3 for Windows and Mac.

The open source rival to Microsoft Office now natively supports Mac OS X without the need to install the X11 module to run the suite first. The beta also includes full Vista and partial VBA support.

Sun Microsystems Announces Technology Preview of Open Source Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server and New Sun GlassFish Communications Server

admin — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:08:36 +0000

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

JavaOne ‘08: Sun starts delivering

admin — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:08:06 +0000

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

Sun looks beyond MARS for NetBeans scripting

admin — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:37:09 +0000

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