Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems' CEO and president, has outlined reasons behind first quarter earnings, released Friday, that beat analyst predictions. McNealy was speaking in London after attending the Telecom 99 conference in Geneva.
Scott McNealy is chairman and CEO Sun Microsystems. He co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 but didn't assume the role of CEO until 1984. He is famous for coining the term 'the network is the computer to express the concept of distributed computing...
Application server software - a $2bn market according to IDC - is used to run web-based business software, which lets companies build applications that access databases and other back-end software. In this area, IBM mainly competes with BEA Systems...
The web portal has begun a campaign called "Save Smiley", in reference to Yahoo! Software companies such as IBM, Oracle and Sun Microsystems also provide enterprise IM or collaboration services. As instant messaging use increases, some corporate IT...
Such a move could also hamper data exchange with competing desktop productivity software that recognises XML, such as Corel's WordPerfect or Sun Microsystems' StarOffice, say analysts and competitors.
Even as Yahoo and AOL step back, companies that have long served the enterprise market, such as IBM, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems, have made bold inroads in offering their own corporate IM products.