Sun announced two new high-speed InfiniBand switches
Sun Microsystems Inc. today announced upgrades to its Sun Storage 7000 family of disk arrays that double the performance and capacity from a maximum of 288TB to 576TB in a 4U (7-in) space. The company is also now offering high-speed InfiniBand connectivity to its array and Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA).
Observers expect a "bare-knuckle fight" between Oracle and the Commission over the inclusion of MySQL in the Sun deal
In an unusually blunt rebuff, the European Commission has dismissed as "facile and superficial" criticism of its decision to issue formal objections to Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
Senior US politicians are said to be willing to wade in to secure the takeover
Oracle is planning an aggressive fight with European regulators if its attempt to take over Sun is slapped with a statement of objections in the coming week, said people close to the company Wednesday.
HP's converged infrastructure, Cisco-EMC's joint Acadia convergence sign of return
A certain truth about the big IT vendors is they want to sell as much as possible to any one customer and now, with virtualization, cloud computing and very tight IT budgets, they believe they have an opening.
Europe's competition commissioner says Oracle has failed to help address its concerns
Europe's head of competition has criticized Oracle for what she characterized as a lack of cooperation over the investigation of Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems, a spokesman for the European Commission said.
Investment in Open Office, MySQL and SPARC to continue, says Ellison
Oracle's tilt at Sun Microsystems was opportunistic, Larry Ellison admitted to financial analysts yesterday, but Sun is now a critical component new five year growth targets that aim to more than double the company's sales to well over $50 billion.
Hewlett-Packard looks to capitalize on Oracle's unclear plan for Sun's future
With Sun Microsystems Inc. on the verge of being absorbed by Oracle Corp., one of its biggest longtime rivals, Hewlett-Packard Co., today announced plans to go after its customers with various migration deals and discounts.
But Schwartz, McNealy and others could still stay on after Oracle deal closes
If Oracle Corp.'s acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc. goes as planned, CEO Jonathan Schwartz will receive a severance package of about US$12 million, and board chairman and co-founder Scott McNealy, about US$9.5 million, according to the proxy statement filed Monday.
The company's board unanimously recommends passage of the US$7.4 bilion deal
Sun Microsystems has scheduled a special shareholders meeting for July 16 for a vote on whether to accept Oracle's US$7.4 billion proposal to buy the company. Sun's board has unanimously recommended the transaction go through.
Orange, Vodafone and Sony Ericsson are trying to make testing easier for developers
Sun Microsystems, Orange, Vodafone Group and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications are taking steps to make it a little easier -- and cheaper -- for software developers to bring Java programs to mobile phones.
Sun calls Crossbow biggest network stack improvement in a decade
Sun Monday made available the OpenSolaris 2009.06 operating system, which included for the first time Sun's Crossbow technology for creating virtual network infrastructure on a single system.
Larry Ellison reassures JavaOne attendees that Oracle will continue to support the technology, post-merger
Reassuring the Java community, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison pledged a commitment to Java technologies, including the budding JavaFX rich media extension to Java, on Tuesday morning at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco.
Store for desktop Java apps will be open to public by end of year
Sun has opened up a test version of its Java Store, which it bills as a Web site where developers can connect with millions of computer users who run Java on their desktop.
Red Hat architecture focuses on flexibility
Red Hat Monday introduced an open source application server strategy called JBoss Open Choice and a trio of upgraded middleware platforms that adhere to an architecture that is customized using components.
Support deals are now the same for the open source and commercial versions of the OS; open source upgrade also adds Sparc support
Lines are beginning to blur between the open source and commercial versions of the Sun Microsystems Solaris Unix operating system.