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Sun Microsystems: Transforming Applications Business For Competitive Market Position

January 1, 2011 12:00am PST

For more than 20 years, Sun Microsystems has been at the forefront of technology innovation, and the company is currently undergoing a major transformation that is changing the way it does...

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Sun Microsystems: Finding Flexibility at a Big Company

May 23, 2006 12:00am PDT

Sun Microsystems has had plenty of experience in partnerships. Not only does this $11 billion dollar company contract with other firms for its manufacturing, but it relies on a huge community of...

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Case Studies

Sun Microsystems Case Study: Meloche

March 12, 2008 12:00am PDT

As the largest direct-response home and auto insurer in Canada, TD Meloche Monnex Group (Meloche) have to respond quickly to industry changes. Meloche wanted to leverage the digital data available...

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Sun Microsystems - SOA Governance for Oracle

January 1, 2011 12:00am PST

Sun Microsystems is a Fortune 500 vendor of software, systems, services, and developing tools to the world's most powerful datacenters. They want to upgrade their suite applications proprietary...

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White Papers

A Bayesian Model for Sales Forecasting at Sun Microsystems

March 20, 2009 12:00am PDT

An accurate short-term forecast of product sales is vital for the smooth operation of modern supply chains, especially where the manufacture of complex products is outsourced internationally. As a...

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Blog Posts

Video: Gosling and Schwartz preview new Java app store

June 3, 2009 10:11am PDT

At JavaOne in San Francisco, Sun Microsystems fellow James Gosling and Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz demo Sun's new online store. The new Java store will distribute and sell mobile apps...

Videos

JavaOne '08: Sun demos JavaFX platform

May 6, 2008 2:00pm PDT

Here's a look at Sun Microsystems’ new JavaFX application, with Flickr and Twitter feeds running in Facebook within the browser, dragged to the desktop, and then put on a mobile phone. Sun...

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Oracle buys Sun Microsystems; tries to become the Apple of the enterprise

April 20, 2009 7:19am PDT

Oracle buys Sun Microsystems; tries to become the Apple of the enterprise article root MySQL It appears to be time to fork MySQL rather than let Oracle kill it. RE: Oracle buys Sun Microsystems;...

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Videos

Ellison wants to model new Oracle after T.J. Watson Jr.'s IBM

September 23, 2009 10:56am PDT

At a Churchhill Club event, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison talks to former Sun Microsystems President Ed Zander about Oracle's recent acquisition of Sun Microsystems. He says he’d like to pattern the...

Articles

Meet the Sun SPOT

October 15, 2007 3:40pm PDT

Angela Caicedo, technology evangelist at Sun Microsystems, shows off the Sun Small Programmable Object Technology (Sun SPOT). In the Sun SPOT is an ARM processor, accelerometer, wireless...

Blog Posts

Sun merges storage and server businesses, reiterates commitment to tape

October 2, 2007 10:54pm PDT

Sun Microsystems' CEO Jonathan Schwartz disclosed that the company plans to merge Sun's server and storage teams into a new group called Sun Systems.

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Oracle-Sun: Strategy set; Will buyers go for the integrated stack?

January 27, 2010 6:42pm PST

Oracle on Tuesday began its mission to revitalize Sun Microsystems hours after it closed the acquisition of the hardware company. Charles Phillips said the company will invest in Sun, revitalize...

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IBM + Sun: Why it could make sense

March 18, 2009 3:17pm PDT

IBM is reportedly in talks to buy Sun Microsystems for $6.5 billion and the deal is long overdue. The companies mesh on the open source software front, Sun is struggling and IBM can consolidate...

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Sun to acquire MySQL in $1 billion deal

January 16, 2008 8:36am PST

Sun Microsystems will fork out $1 billion to acquire open-source database company MySQL. The bold deal is expected to close later this year, but Sun will begin offering support services to...

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Sun teams up with Dell to put Solaris on PowerEdge servers

November 17, 2007 11:59pm PST

Sun Microsystems and Dell have announced a distribution agreement to put Sun's Solaris 10 operating system on Dell's PowerEdge servers.

Videos

Ellison applies the 'Art of War' in Sun deal

April 23, 2009 5:24pm PDT

ZDNet Editor in Chief Larry Dignan and senior editor Sam Diaz discuss the Oracle CEO's gamesmanship in buying Sun Microsystems and how he outplayed IBM. They also share their views on the future...

Articles

Minority Report interface with Sun SPOT

October 15, 2007 4:23pm PDT

Angela Caicedo, technology evangelist at Sun Microsystems demonstrates how combining Project Looking Glass and a Sun SPOT enabled virtual reality glove can result in an interface that is styled...

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Mixing VR input and a Sun SPOT

October 15, 2007 4:15pm PDT

Taking a Sun SPOT, a virtual reality glove and some home-style soldering -- Angela Caicedo, technology evangelist at Sun Microsystems has created an input device capable of replacing the mouse

Articles

"We're halfway there": Sun on Open Source

May 17, 2007 3:20pm PDT

Builder AU's Nick Gibson sat down with Sun Microsystems's Chief Open Source Officer Simon Phipps to find out what's the fallout of open sourcing Java, what he really thinks about GPL v3 and why...

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Sun CTO previews JavaFX-powered game

May 7, 2008 12:42pm PDT

Sun Microsystems shows off a new JavaFX-powered game at its annual JavaOne Conference in San Francisco Tuesday. Sun CTO Robert Brewin talks to Ken Russell and Chris Oliver of the company's JavaFX...