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Sun adds price tag to StarOffice 6.0
News Sun Microsystems will bundle StarOffice 6.0, its productivity software, with additional services and support to make the package more attractive when it begins charging for the tools next month. The paid strategy is a new one for StarOffice, which...
[March 21, 2002, 13:59]
Sun aims at Microsoft with speedy Java tool
News Sun Microsystems will describe on Wednesday new software designed to make its Java programming tools more popular with smaller businesses. With "Rave", Sun is trying to match the speed with which programmers can use Microsoft tools such as Visual...
[June 10, 2003, 7:58]
Sun pushes Eclipse towards unity
News Java steward Sun Microsystems has sent a letter to members of Eclipse, urging the increasingly influential open-source project to unify rather than fragment the Java-based development tool market. Sun sent the letter on Thursday afternoon, only a...
[January 30, 2004, 16:05]
Clearance! Sun chops old server prices
News Sun Microsystems has cut prices on formerly high-end servers now being replaced by systems using newer chips, the company said today. The price of the top-end E10000 Starfire server, which often commands prices higher than $1m, has been cut 16...
[April 18, 2001, 9:31]
Sun sets Opteron strategy
News Sun Microsystems is placing Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron chip at the centre of its low-end server strategy, starting with a dual-processor system, to be announced this month, and four- and eight-processor systems coming later.
[February 2, 2004, 9:45]
Sun and Intel pair up on Xeon-based servers
News Sun is expected to resume its use of Intel's Xeon processors in its x86 servers, according to sources familiar with the situation. Jonathan Schwartz and Paul Otellini, the chief executives of Sun and Intel, respectively, are expected to share the...
[January 22, 2007, 7:55]
Sun set to preview Creator
News Sun Microsystems plans to launch a broad testing programme next month for its highly anticipated Java development tool, Java Studio Creator. In March, that testing will be widened out into a beta program, allowing Sun to complete Creator in time...
[February 18, 2004, 8:25]
Open source would 'fork' Java - Sun
News Sun Microsystems is reluctant to make Java source code available through an open-source model because it would encourage incompatible versions of the software, Sun's top software executive said. During a press briefing on Tuesday, Jonathan Schwartz...
[March 17, 2004, 8:05]
Sun and Google underwhelm
News After much brouhaha leading up to Tuesday's announcement of a new Sun Like Apple, Google seems content to let Sun make a little noise for the time being, until it unleashes its Nano to steal all the thunder.
[October 5, 2005, 11:05]
Sun Compass
Downloads After knowing the geographic position (longitude and latitude) and the timezone (difference to the GMT Standard Time) the program calculates the direction of the sun and displays a yellow circle (sun symbol) on the display.
[March 20, 2003, 14:07]
Sun Microsystems skips past Q1 estimates
News Sun Microsystems came through for its investors once again Thursday, beating Street estimates by 2 cents a share by returning a profit of $275 million ($168m), or 33 cents a share, on sales of $3.12 billion in its first quarter.
[October 15, 1999, 9:06]
Sun's losses continue
News Sun reported shrinking revenue on Thursday for its most recent quarter, while its net loss was deeper than analysts expected. Low-end and midrange servers sold well, but Sun said there was a downside, arguing that the success there crimped revenue...
[April 15, 2005, 9:10]
Sun's McNealy: No Microsoft breakup
News In an interview with the BBC at Telecom 99, Scott McNealy CEO of Sun Microsystems has claimed he does not want to see Microsoft broken up. Sun's Java competes with Microsoft and Sun recently did a deal to offer a free alternative to Microsoft...
[October 14, 1999, 16:07]
Sun's latest Java targeted at Linux gadgets
News Sun Microsystems has released a version of Java for small gadgets using the Linux operating system, the company said Wednesday. Sun has a lukewarm attitude about the Linux operating system, which competes with Sun's Solaris and is popular chiefly...
[January 31, 2001, 15:55]
Sun takes the covers off Mustang
News At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco on Monday, Sun unveiled some of the features that are due to appear in the next two versions of Java. Starting with Tiger, the current version of Java, Sun will stop shipping maintenance releases and will...
[June 29, 2005, 12:20]
Sun And Moon - NOKIA N95 8GB
Downloads s a dynamic screensaver, during the day the sun will change his position and at night the moon does the same thing. It? s a new flash lite screensaver. It?
[October 15, 2008, 8:00]
Sun's desktop demise proves open source's power
Leader Kudos to Sun therefore, for its decision to can the Java Desktop System. There is some justification for the basic idea of a cheap, easy to deploy, uniform network of clients and servers biased towards Java applications, but it was harder to...
[June 29, 2005, 14:15]
Sun claims major chip breakthrough
News Later today, Sun, based in Palo Alto, California, will disclose its plans for a microprocessor with a radical new architecture designed to handle complex graphics, voice and video, challenging Intel Corp.and other chip makers in the fast-growing...
[August 2, 1999, 13:41]
Sun makes peace with the Linux world
News Sun initiated a warmer stage in its relationship with Red Hat on Monday, making conspicuous room onstage for the rival at a major server product launch. Sun prefers customers to use its Solaris operating system, which chiefly runs on Sun servers...
[September 13, 2005, 9:45]
Sun returns to its server roots
News Sun returned to its roots this week when it launched a suite of servers with a greater emphasis on open architecture, in a bid to reclaim the financial market sector it once dominated. The return of co-founder, chief architect and senior vice...
[September 16, 2005, 17:45]
