Sun Solaris users could soon be able to upload data from PalmPilots to their desktops using Palm Computing's Hot Sync technology. The Calender Manager and Desktop Mail features within Sun Solaris will be able to exchange data with PalmPilot...
They are moving off Sun Solaris and onto Intel-based servers running Linux. Pixar Animation Studios, creators of Monsters Inc and Toy Story, is switching from Sun Microsystems to Intel, as the melodrama in the server market heats up.
HP has already dropped the Compaq brand from many products, renaming the company's popular iPaq handhelds and ProLiant servers as the HP iPaq and the HP ProLiant, respectively. The name Compaq may soon be a thing of the past.
Hewlett-Packard is offering users of rival Sun Microsystems' Solaris operating system $25,000 in free services and equipment as an incentive to switch to Linux-based HP systems. Jourlait, vice president of enterprise marketing programs at HP, said...
Ridley added that he has previously happily used HP ProLiant servers - which would have given HP a foot in the storage door - but may next time consider Dell, previously only a PC supplier. University of Huddersfield has spent £1m on storage...
A tax authority in Germany is migrating 12,000 desktops to Suse Linux and the open source KDE desktop. The systems are moving from Solaris x86 version 8, which the organisation has been running since 2002.