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Sun to shed up to 6,000 jobs
News Sun is to shed between 5,000 and 6,000 jobs, the company announced on Friday. The workforce reduction is intended to create cost savings of $700m to $800m (£471m to £539m) annually, Sun said in a statement, but these are only predicted to come into...
[November 14, 2008, 15:35]
Sun Java Communications Suite Total Cost of Ownership, 2005
White Papers This paper clearly indicates that the Sun Java Communications Suite offers substantial cost of ownership benefits. The scalability of the Sun Java Communications Suite is a key asset. On average, a Sun server can support over 26 times more users...
[November 9, 2005, 0:00]
Sun pours Java into telephone handsets
News The Java Telephony API was developed by Sun and Lucent Technologies along with Intel, Northern Telecom and Novell. The interface has wide support from the some of the industry's larger players, said Sun.
[October 10, 1996, 10:45]
Sun cooks Java chips
News Sun expects pricing to be under $25 per processor. Sun will also license the JavaOS, HotJava browser and development tools for picoJava and Java. Later in 1997, Sun will follow up the picoJava with microJava processors including application...
[October 14, 1996, 11:56]
Sun, IBM make NC plans
News Sun is expected to show its first Java terminal at a press conference scheduled for next Tuesday. If it is the same as the prototype shown in the UK earlier this year, it will be a diskless device based on a Sun Java-dedicated processor, measuring...
[October 24, 1996, 11:20]
Sun ditches UltraSparc V and Gemini
News Sun has stopped work on the UltraSparc V, a server chip that was supposed to come out late next year, and Gemini, a dual-core chip for Web servers, a company spokeswoman confirmed. The untimely death of the UltraSparc V and Gemini will in some ways...
[April 12, 2004, 10:15]
Sun launches StarOffice 8
News Sun released StarOffice 8, the next version of its office productivity application that provides improved compatibility with Microsoft Office files, on Tuesday. The latest version of StarOffice offers improved compatibility with Microsoft Office...
[September 27, 2005, 16:05]
Sun blazes away with 14-CPU graphics dream machine
News The Sun Ultra 3000 and 4000 Creator 3D workstations allow for some heavy-duty multi-processing due to their large memory capacities and multiple 64-bit UltraSPARC-1 processors. The difference in price is because of the totally different chassis...
[November 25, 1996, 10:16]
Sun makes its first NAS alliance
News Sun Microsystems has signed a licensing deal with a maker of network-attached storage systems, which could let it plug a gap in its data storage line-up. Procom Technology said on Tuesday that the agreement gives Sun access to some of its...
[April 7, 2004, 9:40]
Sun 'won't abandon' open-source lobby
News Despite a new window into Microsoft's proprietary technology, Sun Microsystems won't stop its call for open standards, executives and analysts say. Sun has been one of the most vocal advocates of open standards, arguing that customers should be...
[April 7, 2004, 8:45]
Sun exec: Future cloud apps will not need humans
Video Lew Tucker, vice president and chief technology officer of cloud computing at Sun, foresees applications that are entirely self-sufficient. Humans will be able to set boundaries, of course, but will no longer be needed to turn servers, or anything...
[August 25, 2009, 11:48]
Sun regains server market strength
News Sun, bruised by years of trying to recover from the dot-com bust, saw revenue gains that beat server rivals in 2006, according to new figures. Sun's revenue increased 15.4 percent to $5.4bn in 2006, reversing the market-share losses it has suffered...
[February 23, 2007, 8:12]
Sun setting on McNealy's reign?
News Scott McNealy's reign as chief executive of Sun Microsystems could be coming to an end, say analysts. Andy Butler, vice president at Gartner, said he is unsure if McNealy -- and many of Sun's other executives -- would be able to live with Microsoft...
[April 5, 2004, 18:15]
Sun, IBM, Netscape to unify Java runtimes
News Additionally, Sun, IBM and Netscape will offer details about how quickly they will provide the HotSpot virtual machine--Sun's next-generation Java virtual machine--within their products, the sources said.
[August 26, 1997, 9:37]
Sun drops hints on Java open source licence
News Sun Microsystems is likely to use the Community Development and Distribution License to govern the forthcoming open source Java software project, chief executive Jonathan Schwartz said on Wednesday. Sun has pledged to release open source Java...
[October 27, 2006, 9:10]
Sun: PCs are outmoded
News So asserted Jonathan Schwartz, president of server and software maker Sun. Sun, which sells the back-end infrastructure that powers such services, has promulgated variations of this message for years.
[September 26, 2005, 8:55]
Sun: MS's Java letter was a 'publicity stunt'
News Saying he wanted to "cut through the rhetoric" that surrounds Java, Alan Baratz, president of Sun Microsystems Inc.s JavaSoft division, today unleashed a little of his own, accusing Microsoft Corp.of doing anything in its power to preserve its...
[September 23, 1997, 10:19]
Sun's pieces of eight
Leader Sun may be making you that offer soon. It might seem perverse to sell faulty units of a luxury product, but Sun is keeping a very old industry tradition alive. Psst. Mister. Wanna buy a broken chip? It's preparing to introduce its eight-core...
[September 22, 2005, 13:50]
Sun: computing service providers are the future
News The way Sun Microsystems sees things, Moore's Law divides the computer technology market into two parts: those who will buy computers and those who will rent computing services from the first group. Sun is aiming its products at the first market...
[October 26, 2006, 9:35]
Sun faces shareholder mutiny
News Shareholder activists are calling for Sun to do away with its "poison pill" takeover defence and realign its executives' stock option plan to be more performance-based, according to a Sun proxy filed on Tuesday.
[September 22, 2005, 8:45]
