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Sun puts the pressure on Windows with $25 Java Desktop
News Sun is hoping to increase the penetration of Linux on the enterprise desktop by slashing the price of its Java Desktop System, which is designed to replace Microsoft's Windows operating system and Office suite.
[December 4, 2003, 11:15]
Major bank will deploy Sun's Java desktop
News Sun has finally received the seal of approval it has been seeking from a large private sector client following the announcement on Tuesday that Allied Irish Bank (AIB) is migrating 7,500 users to the Java Desktop System (JDS).
[June 29, 2004, 13:40]
Sun puts the pressure on Windows with $25 Java Desktop
Talkback It looks like Microsoft's days of overcharging for software are coming to an end. A lot of people once asked, including Microsoft, how anyone thought someone could make money from free software. A smart person (unfortuneately not me) responded...
[December 9, 2003, 1:48]
Sun sees automotive side to Java
News There are classes of Java for devices such as cell phones, servers, desktop computers and digital ID cards. Having secured a niche for Java in cellphones, Sun is setting its sights and server ambitions on a new client device: cars.
[June 29, 2004, 8:50]
Sun loosens Java licence, changes logo
News There are different categories of Java designed for various classes of devices such as cell phones, desktop computers and servers. In another effort to boost Java's fortunes, Sun will announce more liberal licensing terms under which researchers...
[June 6, 2003, 14:31]
Open source would 'fork' Java - Sun
News Schwartz and other Sun executives also revealed details on the company's product plans, including upcoming Linux and Windows versions of the Java Enterprise System, more closely linked security products, and a management console for converting...
[March 17, 2004, 8:05]
Sun plans open source Java component release
News The components are part of Java Standard Edition (SE), which runs on servers and desktop computers. Sun will begin releasing significant open source Java components this year and also will extend the collaborative strategy to the gadget version of...
[August 15, 2006, 9:35]
Sun calls up Java for mobiles
News Java works on servers and desktop computers, but much Java activity centres on the version for mobile phones, called the Mobile Information Device Platform (MIDP). But Microsoft is breathing down Sun's neck, and any dissent in the Java ranks could...
[July 4, 2002, 9:38]
Sun exec joins Red Hat's desktop Linux team
News Karen Tegan-Padir was the vice-president of engineering who oversaw Sun's application server software and other Java products. Red Hat, the top seller of Linux, has hired a former Sun Microsystems executive to head its push to get the open-source...
[October 19, 2004, 15:50]
Sun speeds Java for mobile phones
News Monty was written in 18 months by the team that wrote the HotSpot virtual machine that runs on current versions of Java for servers and for desktop computers, said Rich Green, Sun vice president of Java and XML, in an interview.
[March 27, 2002, 9:03]
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 steps back from desktop Linux
News We're going to immediately roll out the Java Desktop System to between a half million and a million desktops in 2004. Sun is stepping away from an effort to sell Linux for desktop computers, the server and software company's top software executive...
[June 29, 2005, 9:30]
Sun debuts Java Web Start
News In addition to one-click deployment, Java Web Start enables users to launch from a desktop icon or the Start Menu in Windows; provides the same look and feel from any platform user interface; automatically caches and updates applications to reduce...
[March 15, 2001, 8:26]
Sun updates JavaFX and Java SE
News Sun has delivered updates to JavaFX, its platform for rich internet application development, and to Java Platform Standard Edition (SE). At the conference, Sun also launched Update 14 of the Java SE 6 platform, used to create Java programs.
[June 3, 2009, 17:05]
Sun touts Java app store for billion-strong audience
News Remember, when apps are distributed through the Java Store, they're distributed directly to the desktop — JavaFX enables developers, businesses and content owners to bypass potentially hostile browsers.
[May 21, 2009, 12:52]
Sun aims Java at the Web services market
News The Monty team includes members of the team that wrote the HotSpot JVM that improved Java for servers and desktop computers, Green said. Sun Microsystems is working to turn its Java software for mobile phones and other gadgets into a tool to...
[March 26, 2002, 14:08]
Sun starts Java promotion drive
Talkback There is only one bit of software that will and has done anything that bad - the Sun Java Client when used with Firefox. OK, It could be the website in question, but when all that site is actually displaying in Java is a news tickertape, then I...
[May 23, 2005, 19:59]
Sun sets date for Java expansion
News Sun Microsystems plans to announce on Tuesday that its Java Enterprise System, a collection of server software, will be available on two rivals' operating systems in the first quarter of 2005. The company now is certifying its servers for Windows...
[July 27, 2004, 8:35]
Sun demos Java app for next-generation phones
News At the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco, Ken Russell and Sven Gothel of Sun explain how the Nvidia APX2500 chip allows developers to write Java apps on a desktop and run them directly to mobile phones.
[May 14, 2008, 16:39]
Sun and Microsoft settle Java suit
News Ironically, the Java battleground has shifted away from the desktop, where Sun and Microsoft are most fiercely pitted against each other. Java emerged in the mid-1990s and was immediately hailed as a technology that could greatly affect Microsoft's...
[January 24, 2001, 7:59]
