Aussies buy two Sun Blackboxes
Sun Microsystems has sold two of its Project Blackbox "datacentre in a shipping container" products in Australia over the last year, the company revealed last week.
Sun Microsystems has sold two of its Project Blackbox "datacentre in a shipping container" products in Australia over the last year, the company revealed last week.
A Sun guru's warning of the risk of data center failure fatally undermines the company's Red Shift strategy. Don't listen to the lobbying of the techno-utility complex. Ever-larger data center consolidation is strategically untenable in the modern world.
Stockholders and employees are among the most vocal critics of Jonathan Schwartz's move yesterday to change Sun's stock ticker to JAVA. Here's my pick of the most thoughtful, scathing, informative, or just funniest comments posted so far.
Sun is announcing a Rich Internet Application technology, JavaFX, that looks to compete with Ajax, Silverlight and Flash. With so many Java developers out there, even a version as early as this may disrupt some of the RIA balance.
Sun Microsystems (SUNW) will announce on Thursday a large round of layoffs in a bid to cut about one-half billion dollars in annual costs as it transforms itself into a broad based computer software and services company. Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun, will make the announcement to staff and investors, said a Sun source.
Archrivals Microsoft and Sun Microsystems marked a new leg of their race to create the next generation of Web applications through a week of self-aggrandizing pronouncements.