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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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.

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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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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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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.

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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 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.

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

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.

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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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