Why Oracle and HP tied the knot
It took Carly Fiorina and a nudge from a rival company to get Oracle's Larry Ellison down the aisle.
It took Carly Fiorina and a nudge from a rival company to get Oracle's Larry Ellison down the aisle.
PALO ALTO, Calif. - So Larry Ellison, the Playboy of Silicon Valley, tied the corporate knot with the industry's $90 million woman, Carly Fiorina?
Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy has been preaching the virtues of online auctions for several months. So when the SunBid auction site opened last week, it was one more step in McNealy's plan to prep Sun for a gigantic online trading floor.
For the next six months, Sun Microsystems employees should prepare to sleep less. Sun CEO Scott McNealy assured Wall Street Thursday that the company will not rest on its laurels, despite beating analysts' expectations by a penny a share.
Sun unveils UltraSparc III architecture for next generation web-servers.
Microsoft takes competition seriously, as its team of watchers on Sun demonstrates. Oracle is embarking on a 'Java's not dead' tour next week, in the face of anti-Java propaganda that they say comes from Microsoft.
Sun Microsystems is moving swiftly to restructure its channel in an aggressive bid to conduct all U.S.
Sun Microsystems is expected to eliminate licensing fees for Solaris 8 to boost its appeal against Linux and Windows NT, say sources close to the company. Sun is expected to make its "free Solaris" campaign the centerpiece of its Solaris 8 unveiling, which takes place this Wednesday in New York City.
On Monday, Sun Microsystems will unveil, along with partners Oracle and storage vendor Veritas, its plans for offering customers "software stacks." Sun President Ed Zander offered early details on the pending announcement earlier this week, when he spoke at Sun's iForce 2000 partner conference in San Diego.