With Solaris delivering almost 100 per cent gross margin, McNealy made it very clear that Sun will not be running from Unix. However, for all of the Java talk it is clear that within Sun, Solaris is still regarded as the crown jewels.
Despite a long technology relationship with Tadpole, the previous Solaris/SPARC laptops have only really sold to a narrow audience. Tadpole has taken its long-standing relationship with Sun Microsystems a step further, as this family of Linux based...
The product competes with application servers from JBoss, BEA Systems, IBM, Oracle, Sun Microsystems and others. There have been cases before where putting selfishness aside led to broad, powerful benefits, he said, citing the Salk vaccine for...
Sun also sells versions of JDS for its Solaris operating system, and individual components, such as the browser and StarOffice, also run on Windows. The Japanese government has approved Sun Microsystems' open-source desktop software for use within...
Sun Microsystems is revamping the start-up process for its Solaris operating system, scrapping an awkward, elderly approach for one the company promises will be faster, more familiar and more useful on a wide variety of computers.
Sun Microsystems has fixed five security bugs in Java that expose computers running Linux, Solaris and Windows to hacker attack. All the flaws affect the Java Runtime Environment, or JRE, in computers loaded with Linux, Microsoft Windows or Sun's...