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Sun to shed up to 6,000 jobs

News The company has announced it will reduce its workforce by between 15 and 18 percent, and restructure its software business into three groups.

Monday, November 17 2008 01:04 AM

Tags: Layoffs, Leadership, Business applications, Open source, Open-source Database, Workforce, Storage, Cloud Computing, Sun Microsystems Inc., software

Sun considers GPL for Solaris

News If Sun switched its Unix version to the General Public License, it could permit code-swapping with Linux.

Wednesday, November 15 2006 09:24 AM

Tags: Operating systems, Open source

Sun warms to open-source server software

News Even as it takes first step toward open-source Solaris, firm says it's considering a similar move with its server software product.

Wednesday, January 26 2005 11:22 AM

Tags: Open source

DTrace gets guernsey in new FreeBSD

News The FreeBSD Project has released a new stable version of its popular Unix operating system, officially incorporating for the first time Sun Microsystems' flagship DTrace performance analysis and debugging tool.

Tuesday, January 06 2009 09:03 AM

Tags: Operating systems, Open source, CPU, Database, Unix, operating system, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., DTrace, Environment

DTrace reaches prime time on FreeBSD

News A project to bring one of the most advanced features of Sun Microsystems' Solaris operating system to the FreeBSD platform has started bearing fruit.

Tuesday, May 30 2006 12:57 AM

Tags: Operating systems, Linux, Software engineering/development

Running with Mustang

Techguide Lee Chuk-Munn reviews the features in JavaSE 6, the JDK formerly known as Mustang.

Saturday, December 16 2006 12:35 PM

Red Hat looks under Linux's hood

News Red Hat has created a team of 34 programmers to work on nothing, but next-generation software.

Wednesday, November 02 2005 12:03 PM

Tags: Open source

Lighting a fire under Solaris

News Sun is trying to reinvigorate the operating system with advances in performance, networking, reliability and data storage, with two significant updates slated for this year.

Tuesday, April 25 2006 10:08 AM

Tags: UNIX

Torvalds: Solaris could nudge Linux to GPL 3

News The Linux leader is still skeptical about GPL 3, but open-source Solaris could be a draw.

Wednesday, June 13 2007 10:02 AM

Tags: Linux, Open source

Sun's Solaris 10 to run Linux apps, too

News Sun Microsystems will build software into its forthcoming Solaris 10 version of Unix to run Linux applications unchanged.

Thursday, August 05 2004 02:33 PM

Tags: UNIX, Linux

Learn about core enhancements in Java SE 6

Techguide Peter V. Mikhalenko discusses how this release may become a revolutionary step in GUI and desktop Java application development.

Thursday, August 10 2006 08:23 PM

Develop real-time applications with Java RTS 2.0

Techguide Java Real-Time System (RTS) 2.0 is Sun's fully compliant implementation of the industry standard set of extensions for the Java platform.

Friday, April 25 2008 12:10 AM

Tags: Java