Sun Touts Total Package
News Sun Microsystems is preaching the message that customers prefer pre-built packages of hardware and software over piecemeal components -- and the company cites next week's SunNetwork conference as evidence that its own staff is getting its religion.
[September 15, 2003, 12:40]
Sun Hones Blade-server Range
News The announcement, along with several others, kicked off this week's SunNetwork 2003 Berlin conference. Sun Microsystems on Wednesday began selling its first blade server that can run Linux, in a move that tightens Sun's ties with chipmaker AMD.
[December 3, 2003, 14:00]
Sun's Chief Exec Admits Mistakes
News I allowed us to hire too many folks in the field," McNealy said on Thursday during a meeting at Sun's SunNetwork conference in San Francisco. Also at the conference on Thursday, Sun detailed its years-long "N1" plan to unite servers, storage...
[September 20, 2002, 10:49]
Sun Donates Cryptography Tech To OpenSSL Project
News Diffie spoke Thursday during a news conference at the SunNetwork conference in San Francisco. Sun Microsystems has donated new cryptography technology to an open-source project at the heart of many secure transactions on the Internet.
[September 20, 2002, 14:32]
Red Hat, Sun To Boost Desktop Linux
News At a news conference, Sun executives declined to say whether the company planned to sell Linux PCs using Intel or AMD processors, but said the company would announce more details of its desktop Linux strategy at its SunNetwork conference, which...
[August 14, 2002, 8:21]
Java Allies Ape Microsoft's Methods
News This week, Java's inventor, Sun, will show off a new tool at its SunNetwork conference in San Francisco called Project Rave. At its professional developers' conference in Los Angeles next month, Microsoft will detail its latest weapon in its...
[September 22, 2003, 12:05]
Solaris To Enlist Military Security
News Speaking at the company's SunNetwork conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, Mark Tolliver, Sun's chief strategy officer said the company hadn't yet decided on a name for the platform, or pricing, but revealed it would be released in the second...
[September 18, 2003, 11:30]
Sun UltraSparc Chips Reach 1.2GHz
News The processor, to be announced at the SunNetwork 2002 conference in San Francisco, is built by Texas Instruments with a manufacturing process that permits 130-nanometer features, a smaller size than the current 150-nanometer process.
[September 18, 2002, 7:54]
Sun Lights The Way For Virtual Servers
News On Thursday, at its SunNetwork 2002 conference in San Francisco, Sun plans to describe N1 milestones running through 2005, a source familiar with the project said. Sun Microsystems plans to detail a timeline Thursday for N1, a sweeping software...
[September 18, 2002, 8:07]
Computers 'too Expensive' - McNealy
News The world has to be getting a little disappointed in our industry," McNealy said on Tuesday, addressing attendees of the company's SunNetwork conference. Customers are paying up to 10 times what they should to buy and run computers, but a...
[September 17, 2003, 9:05]
McNealy Touts Sun-Linux 'purple Box' Desktops
News McNealy had said last month that Sun was planning to offer a Linux PC to compete with Microsoft, but he offered further details on Wednesday at the SunNetwork 2002 conference in San Francisco. Sun Microsystems will get into the PC business next...
[September 20, 2002, 8:03]
Sun Takes On Corporate Buyers
News Scott McNealy, Sun's chief executive, and Jonathan Schwartz, executive vice president of the server maker's software group, are scheduled to discuss the plans at the SunNetwork conference in San Francisco.
[September 16, 2003, 14:40]
Sun To Launch Comeback Plan
News Evidence of Sun's comeback plans will emerge this week at the SunNetwork conference in San Francisco. Sun Microsystems, backed into a corner by competitors and economics, is launching new projects in an effort to revitalise its diminished computer...
[September 16, 2002, 12:22]
Sun Goes On The Software Offensive
News Speaking at this week's SunNetwork 03 conference in San Francisco, in typical bullish mood, trademark white teeth on display to the home crowd of Sun groupies, McNealy kicked off the three-day event by aping the controversial campaign to recall...
[September 18, 2003, 16:50]
Sun Expands StarOffice Giveaway
News The company is expected to detail that effort Wednesday at its SunNetwork 2002 conference in San Francisco. Sun Microsystems will give away its StarOffice software to ministries of education in Europe and Africa, the company is expected to announce...
[September 17, 2002, 8:41]
Sun Seeks To Restore Its Sheen
News Sun announced parts of that strategy at its SunNetwork conference last month. These days, any news about Sun Microsystems seems decidedly glum. Last week, the company reported a $1bn (£0.6bn) tax charge and warned of a significant quarterly loss...
[October 8, 2003, 11:20]
'We Will Open Source Solaris' - Sun
News Earlier today in Shanghai, Schwartz addressed a 4,000-strong SunNetwork Conference that was held, for the first time, in Asia. So said Sun Microsystems' president and chief operating officer Jonathan Schwartz at an Asia Pacific press conference in...
[June 2, 2004, 14:40]
Sun Puts The Pressure On Windows With $25 Java Desktop
News At the SunNetwork 2003 Conference in Berlin on Wednesday, Sun said it will provide management, support, tools and servicing at a 50 percent discount till the middle of 2004. Sun is hoping to increase the penetration of Linux on the enterprise...
[December 4, 2003, 11:15]
McNealy Dodges Crisis Talk
News SunNetwork 2003 in Berlin has seen the company reinforce its vision of "network computing" and a victorious Java, along with product announcements around its Java Enterprise System and Java Desktop System low-cost software bundles, AMD's Opteron...
[December 4, 2003, 14:30]
