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by Donald Greg on February 28, 2010
Technology has changed most industries a great deal in the last few decades. Think of the technological advances in the medical industry, or in manufacturing, or the energy sector. Now marketing au...
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by jeff goldman on February 25, 2010
Qualcomm and Oracle have announced the availability of Oracle's Sun Java Wireless Client for Qualcomm's Brew Mobile Platform (Brew MP).
"Oracle's Sun Java Wireless Client's pre-i...
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by jeff goldman on February 12, 2010
Eucalyptus Systems has announced a partnership with Terracotta to collaborate on an open source solution for private clouds.
"Terracotta provides distributed Hibernate caching, session clusterin...
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by jeff goldman on February 2, 2010
During a recent press briefing, Oracle executive vice president of product development Thomas Kurian (and others) laid out the company's plans for many of Sun Microsystems' offerings.
"K...
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by jeff goldman on January 23, 2010
The European Union has finally approved Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
"The decision follows the company's promise in December to allow other companies to build on Sun's M...
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by jeff goldman on January 17, 2010
UBS analyst Brent Thill has predicted that Oracle will soon fire half of Sun Microsystems' 27,000 employees.
"He said Oracle was likely to make the drastic workforce cuts as the price for sq...
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by jeff goldman on January 10, 2010
Texas-based BMC Software has purchased Phurnace Software, which makes management tools for Java application deployment.
"Phurnace Software was established in 2007, and its... application release...
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by jeff goldman on December 19, 2009
Sun Microsystems has launched a new version of its Java Store, which remains in beta.
Enhancements include a new user interface, the addition of user accounts, and support for payments via PayPal.
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by jeff goldman on November 28, 2009
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Oracle has scheduled a hearing with European Commission regulators regarding its planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems for December 10.
"The deal has already been approved by U...
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by jeff goldman on November 15, 2009
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SAP CTO Vishal Sikka has published a histrionic blog post criticizing Sun Microsystems for its control over Java.
"The company's chief technology officer slammed the Java Community...
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by jeff goldman on October 22, 2009
Sun Microsystems has announced plans to cut 3,000 jobs in the coming year.
"The job losses -- about 10 percent of the global workforce -- are the latest in a series of cuts by the struggling com...
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by jeff goldman on September 24, 2009
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison says the European Commission's delaying of his company's acquisition of Sun Microsystems is costing Oracle $100 million a month.
"Ellison, speaking to former Motorola ...
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by jeff goldman on August 30, 2009
Fortune's Jon Fortt reports that Oracle may be planning to sell Sun Microsystems' hardware business to HP.
"It's no secret that Larry Ellison wanted Sun Microsystems for its softwar...
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by jeff goldman on August 22, 2009
Oracle Corporation this week announced that the U.S. Department of Justice has approved its proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
"Oracle announced its bid for Sun in April, after abandonin...
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by jeff goldman on August 12, 2009
VMWare this week announced plans to acquire SpringSource for $362 million in cash and equity, plus the assumption of approximately $58 million of unvested stock and options.
"No open source cod...
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by jeff goldman on August 7, 2009
Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems is now receiving increased scrunity from both United States and European Union regulators.
"The Redwood City, Calif.-based database giant s...
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by jeff goldman on July 20, 2009
With 62 percent voting in favor of the deal, Sun Microsystems shareholders have approved the company's merger with Oracle.
"Pending approval by the Justice Department, database titan Oracle i...
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by jeff goldman on July 9, 2009
InformationWeek's Deborah Gage this week noted that a new report from AMR Research finds that (according to Gage) "Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems and Sun's Java programming ...
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by jeff goldman on July 9, 2009
Sun Microsystems and Carbonite have announced a partnership under which users who download the newest version of Java will receive a free 30-day trial of Carbonite Online Backup.
"Carbonite Onlin...
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by jeff goldman on June 10, 2009
At last week's JavaOne conference, Microsoft execs did their best to woo the Java developers in attendance.
"'I want to say, absolutely, we come in peace,' pledged Steven Martin, one ...
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by jeff goldman on May 11, 2009
Enterprise Java vendor SpringSource has purchased Hyperic. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
"The move will expand SpringSource's Java offerings and allow the company to provide a more co...
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by jeff goldman on April 24, 2009
Following Oracle's $7.4 billion purchase this week of Sun Microsystems, what does the future look like for both companies?
"Sun made its name as a supplier of server hardware during the dot...
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by jeff goldman on April 10, 2009
The talks between IBM and Sun Microsystems have broken down, and it's unclear what will come next for Sun.
"Sun and IBM failed to agree on terms and a price, which IBM reportedly had dropped ...
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by jeff goldman on March 21, 2009
The Wall Street Journal this week broke the news that IBM is considering purchasing Sun Microsystems.
"Teams of International Business Machines Corp. lawyers are examining Sun Microsystems Inc.&#...
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by jeff goldman on January 24, 2009
Sun Microsystems announced 1,300 job cuts this week, hitting the Java community hard.
"Sun's decision to dump 1,300 people was expected," notes ZDNet's Dana Blankenhorn. "Less e...
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by jeff goldman on November 22, 2008
Sun Microsystems has announced plans to cut between 5,000 and 6,000 jobs - that's between 15 and 18 percent of its workforce.
"It blamed the cuts on the global economic downturn, but I think ...
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by gautam on October 15, 2008
It was in the month of January that Sun Microsystems paid a whopping $1 billion to acquire MySQL but it seems cracks have already started to develop since the deal went through.
David Axmark, co-fou...
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by gautam on August 28, 2008
'In 12 months, Sun will not be the same company it is now.' This is the prediction of Brian Babineau who is the analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group.
Profits have been declining for the comp...
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by gautam on June 28, 2008
Sun is trying to get into the good books of its customers and has released Sun GlassFish and MySQL Unlimited which is expected to ensure greater ROI and lesser cost of deployment and managing of datab...
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by gautam on May 30, 2008
Will they or Wont they? This is what is confusing minds out there who feel whether Dell would buyout Sun or not after HP went ahead to get EDS. Rumors have been afloat that Dell might consider buying ...
