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Sun's Desktop Demise Proves Open Source's Power
Talkback The software Sun has given to the OSS is StarOffice. I still feel some sympathy for Sun in its struggle to surwive. StarOffice was originally a German software that Sun bought and released as OSS in the "mood" at the time.
[June 29, 2005, 20:02]
Sun Has Betrayed Us All
Talkback Sun can only characterize as irresponsible ZDUK's leader about our patent settlement with Kodak. Unfortunately the portrait is very accurate at least as far as Sun's "stance on intellectual property" is concerned, as "Sun Corporate Communication...
[October 12, 2004, 15:04]
Sun's Edge Computing Solutions Boost Grid Computing Resource Utilization At Media Information Center
White Papers The Information Media Center has a Grid Computing environment with Sun Grid Engine, Enterprise Edition running on a Sun Fire V880 server and a number of Sun Blade 1000 workstations. Tokyo University is a leader in advanced scientific research and...
[November 10, 2004, 23:00]
Sun's High-Performance And Reliable Web Proxy Solution
White Papers Web proxy technology has emerged as an effective solution to improve performance, help ensure content availability and enhance network security by caching and filtering Web content. The combination of Sun SPARC Enterprise servers with CoolThreads...
[September 11, 2007, 1:00]
Sun's Plans...and How They Could Go Wrong
Talkback With Sun now not buying MontaVista, Sun is losing direction and has no solid plan. I won't be surprised if we find out that Sun is secretly funding SCO. Sadly, for a company like Sun, magnificant and truly innovative in the past, they are sounding...
[September 24, 2004, 16:20]
Sun's Loss Better Than Expected
News McNealy, however, noted that when Sun launched its AMD initiative, it provided a "nice bump" to the company's x86 business. Sun rivals Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM have sold servers using "x86" processors such as Intel's Xeon for years, but until...
[January 16, 2004, 14:10]
Sun's Data Migration Experience Helps Ensure Successful Business Transition
White Papers After migrated its data to the Sun Enterprise servers, Virgin Money has achieved a 33 percent reduction in total cost of ownership (TCO) for its server environment. To help ensure a successful database migration, Virgin Money turned to consultants...
[September 18, 2007, 0:00]
Sun's Plans...and How They Could Go Wrong
Talkback If SUN has such "bright days" ahead, why is an sqlunixdeveloper unemployed? Out of IBM, HP and DataGeneral I've worked on, SUN offers the best operating systems and development environment for Unix developers.
[September 25, 2004, 0:24]
Sun Has Betrayed Us All
Talkback In fact, under US current copyrigth Law, Sun had ZERO choice in the matter.the sttlement happend AFTER it was adjudged by a jury that Sun was GUILTY of infringing on Kodak's patents. So, Sun, which had more than 2 decades of many folks' dev work...
[October 11, 2004, 21:49]
Sun Has Its Head In The Clouds
Talkback It is now five years later, Moore's law still holds, and depending on scarcity of CPU bandwidth, like communication bandwidth, is a frail hook indeed to hang ones hopes on. Sun is focusing, in derelection of its duty to user and shareholder alike...
[September 22, 2004, 13:43]
Sun's Investment Protection Strategy And How It Benefits Sun Customers
White Papers This paper focuses on how Sun has helped its customers reduce TCO while protecting their IT infrastructure investments. DHBA) interviewed executives from a cross section of Sun customers. This paper presents their thoughts on how various Sun...
[November 3, 2005, 0:00]
Sun Has Betrayed Us All
Talkback Sun is a company that's struggling to survive and its key customers and markets, in mission-critical computing, have zero-tolerance for the uncertainty that a protracted legal process, however morally justified, can entail.
[October 8, 2004, 12:08]
Sun Has Betrayed Us All
Talkback It's not keeping up with the realities of today's businesses and technologies. But to blame Sun is simply moronic. Is the current patent system a problem? Yes. The mechanism to protect original ideas is anitquated and archaic.
[October 8, 2004, 17:53]
Sun's Patent Settlement Sparks Controversy
Talkback You ignore the jury decision, you ignore the inability of Sun to get rid of the case on summary judgment, and worst of all you ignore any first hand investigation. Has anyone here that comments? I just think it is really funny you guys assume that...
[October 22, 2004, 21:32]
Sun Has Betrayed Us All
Talkback Not only does it give us access to different parts of the device, we also won't have to wait for emerging jsr's, which may or may not work device independent. Don't get me wrong, It's not the technology in itself, it's SUNs nutty behaviour.
[October 10, 2004, 17:24]
Sun's Plans...and How They Could Go Wrong
Talkback So, a company that was once admired by many, for its dedication to engineering excellence, imagination and quality, has sunk to this level, and joined forces with the Prince of Darkness himself. These are dark days indeed!
[September 24, 2004, 4:21]
Sun's Plans...and How They Could Go Wrong
Talkback The author has not touched upon other big companies backing Linux, not to mention national goverments.http://half-in-jest.blogspot.com/2004/09/suns-plansanti-linux.html There are many pieces to this puzzle.
[September 24, 2004, 15:48]
Sun Challenged To Release Java's Code
Talkback The answer to Scott McNealey's fears that Microsoft or anyone else will abuse or tamper with Java code after it's release to the Open Source community, is to make sure that, like Linux, it is released under GPL.
[February 19, 2004, 9:23]
Sun's Java Jive Lacks Openness
Talkback Sun would not have won their case against Microsoft when MS started trying to 'subvert' the language's platform independence. Sure, there could be improvements to the community process, but not being open source has saved this language once already.
[March 17, 2005, 16:11]
Sun Challenged To Release Java's Code
Talkback Sun implements the specification and has your Java Virtual Machine. IBM implements the specification and has your Java Virtual Machine. GNU implements the specification and has your Java Virtual Machine.
[February 17, 2004, 16:45]
