Sun said it hasn't yet set a price for the PC package. 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.
Corporations can define policies for how data centre resources can be pooled and provisioned to meet a spike in demand, such as one caused by the quarterly financial accounting process or by a jump in website traffic.
An email client for the service, Mail for Blackberry, will be available through PalmSource and will become a part of its regular software licensing package, according to Albert Chu, vice president of business development at PalmSource.
However, she added that Microsoft will "continue to support the usage scenarios our users require and will support new scenarios as appropriate". According to Thurrott, Longhorn will also be available in what Thurrott calls Longhorn Überedition and...
Still, Microsoft is getting some competition - not from a rival software package but from a whole new model for software delivery. Software as a service promises to shake up Redmond - and the rest of the traditional software world - by doing away...
Today's technologies can provide highly secure remote access in a wide range of scenarios at a much lower administrative cost than first-generation products. Now, with the internet ubiquitous, we are all used to a highly distributed computing...