Tag Archives : Sun Microsystems

The report shows that the participation of more traditional payers – Red Hat, Novell and IBM – is gradually reducing, while companies with a focus on mobility are becoming increasingly important for the development to the Linux platform. With the success of Android, Linux has become a key force in the market for software for smartphones. [...]

After hours of speculations and intense discussions, the owner of Sun Microsystems, Oracle Corporation, as per numerous reports has now finally announced that, the company has hired the ex-CEO of Hewlett Packard (HP), Mark Hurd in the capacity of one of the two co-Presidents for Oracle. Along with his responsibility of being the company’s co-President, [...]

After spending more than a week in the spotlight and relinquishing himself of the top job at Hewlett Packard, one of the biggest companies in the corporate world, Mark Hurd, the former CEO of HP has reportedly been in talks with Oracle Corporation for an employment opportunity. Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle was seen as a staunch supporter of Mr. [...]

A zero-day hole disseminated on the Internet by a Google researcher has begun to be explored. The researcher decided to publish the flaw after the Sun (a company owned by Oracle and is responsible for Java) said it did not consider the problem serious enough to throw out an update cycle of three months that the firm follows. The specialist who discovered [...]

Webmasterpro survey found that 21% of PCs in Germany use the OpenOffice suite or other similar open source programs. In this research, the company collected data from more than one million German internet users and by using statistics from Flash Counter Statistics Service for the numbers. The study shows that most users – 72% – use Microsoft Office, [...]

Over the next 12 months, Sun Microsystems intends to cut 3 thousand employees, according to a document issued by the company to regulatory agencies of the United States on the last Tuesday. According to the company, this was the way found to reverse the damages caused on account of delay in the company’s acquisition by Oracle, which awaits the [...]

The stock exchange of London, London Stock Exchange (LSE), announced that it intends to migrate their administration programs, of TradElect, based on language.NET and in the operating system Windows Server 2003, from Microsoft, for MilleniumIT, based on the Linux platform. The new software was already acquired and the transition should begin in October. The [...]

Antitrust regulatory agencies of the European Union opened an investigation on Thursday to investigate the background of the Sun Microsystems acquisition by Oracle, in s USD 7 billion operation, due to concerns that the deal would threaten competition in the database market. The delay may affect the Sun, the fourth largest maker of computer servers [...]