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Sun Details Expanded Open Source Plans
News Sun said Wednesday that it will offer free access to its Java server suite and N1 management software and bundle them with its Solaris operating system. Customers will come to Sun to purchase the licences, services and support to take full...
[December 1, 2005, 9:25]
Sun To Restore Intel Support For Solaris
News The move will restore support for software about which Sun had given at best lukewarm signals earlier this year. Sun Microsystems plans broader backing for a version of its Solaris operating system geared for Intel processors, the server maker...
[October 4, 2002, 8:13]
Sun Middleware Embraces Rival Operating Systems
News Windows support starts with Windows and a Windows Server 2003 version is due in 90 days, Sun said. System server software now supports the Windows and HP-UX operating systems. The suites include an application server, collaboration software and...
[October 26, 2005, 9:20]
Sun Considers Linux Partnerships
News While Sun representatives declined to comment for this story, the head of Sun's software division has said the server seller is willing to make changes to better accommodate software companies that are reluctant to extend to support yet another...
[March 7, 2003, 12:39]
Sun Unveils Liberty-spec Server Software
News With the latest version of its Identity Server product, Sun joins half a dozen other companies, including software maker Novell and security software companies RSA Security and Entrust, that are supporting or planning to support Liberty in their...
[July 17, 2002, 10:17]
Sun's Plan To Eclipse .Net
News Tuesday, Sun will announce that the iPlanet application server and Web server products will include built-in support for another key standard, Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), used to send instructions from one machine to another using XML...
[October 23, 2001, 8:52]
Sun Releases Open-source Liberty Tool
News Sun executives say the Java-based tool is the first open-source implementation of the Liberty Alliance standard and a prototype of Sun's forthcoming server software, called Identity Server 6.0, which will manage computer user's access and...
[September 19, 2002, 13:49]
US Report: Java Targets MS In The Enterprise
News In addition, Sun has improved developer support over the last few months and is preparing to announce a software channel program that executives claim will finally enable the Californian company to sell cross-platform software.
[December 22, 1998, 16:30]
Red Hat Takes On Application-server Market
News Red Hat currently sells a version of the Linux operating system along with service and support, but this week the company released a beta version of the new software, called the Red Hat Application Server.
[December 19, 2003, 9:00]
Microsoft Adds Java Support To Database
News Jeff Ressler, Microsoft's lead product manager for SQL Server, said the company is adding support for JDBC because customers demanded it. In fact, Microsoft's latest strategy is to woo away Java developers from Sun with a set of tools that...
[September 26, 2001, 10:27]
Sun And IBM Bury The Hatchet
News IBM has become a major ally in Sun's effort to expand its Solaris operating system to x86 chips by pledging to create versions of Java, database and other server software for the chip-OS combination. The announcement came the same day that Sun...
[June 28, 2005, 10:00]
Sun Open Sources Identity Services
News The release also will include software hooks to the Sun Java System Web Server and Sun Java System Application Server, they said. Sun's source code release gives Java developers at enterprises or software makers the ability to support single sign...
[July 14, 2005, 9:30]
JBoss Developers Split To Help Integration
News JBoss makes server software for running applications based on Sun's J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) standard. A handful of developers have left JBoss -- the software start-up behind the increasingly popular JBoss open-source application server...
[June 6, 2003, 9:42]
New WebSphere Nearing Launch
News The most significant addition to the early product, called WebSphere Application Server Technology for Developers version 6, is support for the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) version 1.4 standard. IBM competitor Sun Microsystems, which controls...
[January 9, 2004, 9:10]
Sun To Match Red Hat Pricing Model
News From Sun's perspective, Solaris x86 is a better solution for the server than Linux is," Illuminata analyst Gordon Haff said, adding that Sun faces a very difficult challenge when it comes to rounding up hardware, software and customer support for...
[April 1, 2004, 8:50]
Java Desktop System Reaches Version Two
News Sun Microsystems plans to release on Tuesday the second version of its Java Desktop System, the server maker's version of Linux for desktop computers, augmenting the software with new management and programming tools.
[June 1, 2004, 9:15]
Sun Jumps To Linux 5.0
News As part of Sun's move to introduce a budget Linux-based server, the company will also make available its own secure distribution of the open-source Linux operating system, for which it plans to provide full support.
[August 13, 2002, 10:35]
Sun Ropes In Oracle To Push High-end Servers
News Sun will pay the Oracle licence fee, but customers will be responsible for paying Oracle's annual support and maintenance fees, said Larry Singer, Sun's strategic insight officer. Because Oracle licence fees correspond to the number of processors a...
[January 11, 2006, 13:30]
Solaris Pricing Targets Red Hat
News With premium support, the new Solaris 10 version will cost $1,440 per year for a server with four Opteron processors from AMD, for example. But in 2003, Red Hat split its product line into two halves: the free "Fedora Core" version that's...
[November 15, 2004, 8:20]
Sun Joins The Extended VMware Family
News The two companies also signed an agreement to support Solaris 10 as "a guest OS on future VMware server and desktop products". Sun has become the latest vendor to sign up to deliver VMware server and storage virtualisation products.
[August 11, 2005, 14:10]
