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Sun plans eight-way Opteron servers this year
News Sun may launch an eight-way Opteron processor by the autumn, the company said at its SunLive05 customer event in London on Tuesday. Speaking at a seminar on x86 processors, UK entry server product marketing manager Mark Littlewood said Sun will...
[March 23, 2005, 16:30]
Solaris 10 will run Linux programs
News Sun Microsystems will build software into its forthcoming Solaris 10 version of Unix to run Linux applications unchanged. The software, called Project Janus, will work on servers using "x86" chips such as Intel's Xeon and Advanced Micro Devices...
[August 4, 2004, 8:35]
Gartner: HP and IBM could abandon PC market
Talkback You say only Dell was profitable. NOT TRUE. Apple has been profitable with its PC business as well. I've said this many times before. The open architecture of the x86 PC business may have led to great success in the 80s 90s and early 00s but it...
[November 29, 2004, 16:06]
Solaris will run on AMD's Opteron
News Sun Microsystems' Solaris will become the third operating system to take advantage of Advanced Micro Devices' 64-bit Opteron processor. Solaris, Sun's version of Unix, already runs on 32-bit "x86" processors including AMD's Athlon and Intel's Xeon.
[October 10, 2003, 11:15]
Is there life left for low-cost chips?
News It's been a tough year for low-end chip vendors. Ultimately, that might be good for PC buyers. But only if startups like Rise Technologies, which makes a low-cost X86 processor, can find a market. When we launched a year ago and we said 'we have a...
[October 12, 1999, 8:53]
StarOffice enters Solaris orbit
News Sun Microsystems has introduced a version of StarOffice tailored to desktop PCs running Solaris, its Unix-based operating system. The release yesterday of the productivity software, named StarOffice 7 for Solaris x86, comes as Sun tries to position...
[February 5, 2004, 8:45]
Inside Intel's Atom review
Reviews The Atom processor has had a long gestation. It started in 2004, when work got going on the Bonnell core design project. This was a ground-up design of a brand-new x86 processor, intended as far as possible to put low power consumption first.
[June 3, 2008, 17:34]
Sun and AMD play the same game
Talkback AMD is copying Intel. Let's think about that. First there was copper interconnects. Oh wait, AMD had that first. Then there was SOI. Damn, Intel doesn't have that yet. Ah, there is x86-64. Intel will have it in a few months.
[November 15, 2004, 17:31]
IBM brings its middleware to Linux
Talkback To say that three is "no unmet need" for open-source middleware because it's available from Oracle etc.is a little silly. It's not like there was a demand for Unix on x86 because x86 was so great. The demand rose with a need to reduce costs and the...
[October 1, 2004, 21:08]
Sun gathers Solaris-Intel commitments
News A number of companies are endorsing Sun Microsystems' promotion of Solaris on Intel-based servers. Among the companies that have committed to release software for the version of Solaris that runs on Intel-compatible "x86" servers are speech...
[February 7, 2003, 8:27]
Overlap is next hurdle for Compaq-DEC
News With today's $9.6 billion acquisition of Digital Equipment Corp. Compaq Computer Corp.plugs some gaping holes in its product and services strategy, at the same time shining light on an obvious overlap in X86-based servers, desktops and portables.
[January 27, 1998, 11:20]
Enhancements in Sun Management Center 3.6.1 Software
White Papers Sun Management Center 3.6.1 continues the Sun tradition of providing comprehensive monitoring and management solutions for all the Sun systems in an enterprise. This release also expands monitoring and management into the realm of x86/x64 systems...
[September 11, 2007, 1:00]
Why 64 bit is the 'new' catchword
News The catchword on the technology horizon is "64-bit computing. Intel has spent quite some time wooing the high-end data center with its IA64 processors running various flavors of Unix. AMD is prepping its x86-64 processors to be able to run 32-bit...
[April 8, 2003, 12:25]
New York launches Intel antitrust probe
News The attorney general of New York, Andrew Cuomo, has launched an antitrust probe into chip giant Intel. Cuomo is investigating whether Intel coerced customers to exclude its main rival AMD from the worldwide market for x86 computer processing units...
[January 11, 2008, 15:52]
IBM muddies dual-core pricing waters
News IBM is a dualist when it comes to software licensing and dual-core processors. The same week that Intel and AMD introduced dual-core processors, IBM said that it will price its server software as if these x86 dual-core chips were a single processor.
[April 22, 2005, 9:10]
WindowSplitter
Downloads REALbasic WindowSplitter plugin control to create split view in forms. Has REALbasic style splitters, native MacOS X and Linux splitters, Outlook style splitters and ability to custom render splitters.
[May 20, 2008, 8:00]
When Good Instructions Go Bad: Generalizing Return-Oriented Programming to RISC
White Papers This paper reconsiders the threat posed by Shacham's "Return-oriented programming" - a technique by which OX-style hardware protections are evaded via carefully crafted stack frames that divert control flow into the middle of existing variable...
[January 16, 2009, 0:00]
OLPC chief predicts Windows for ARM architecture
News The head of the One Laptop per Child project has predicted that Microsoft will develop a version of Windows for ARM-based architecture within the next 18 months. The first version of the OLPC educational laptop, the XO, uses an x86-based AMD...
[March 13, 2009, 16:36]
Transmeta dismisses Intel's FUD over Crusoe
News Microprocessor newcomer Transmeta says suggestions by Intel that its Crusoe chip isn't fully compatible with Windows software are unfounded. The comments follow remarks made by Intel at a recent briefing where it raised doubts about whether Crusoe...
[July 20, 2000, 12:35]
IBM puts price tag on virtualised servers
News IBM has built software into its servers that allows corporate IT departments and hosting companies to charge for computing based on usage, the same way utilities such as gas and electricity are purchased.
[June 1, 2006, 10:25]
