Tech community mourns its dead
Technology companies nationwide remember employees who died as a result of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C.
Technology companies nationwide remember employees who died as a result of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C.
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.
Microsoft has this week handed out US$500,000 to four universities doing research into efficient computing, while rival Sun has stepped up its green IT marketing efforts.
VMware, Citrix, Microsoft, Red Hat and the open source community have all been trying to take the hypervisor high ground. Oracle has just jumped into the battle with guns blazing. Can Oracle unseat VMware?
Sun has reeled back another former executive. Stephen Shankland got the scoop that Rich Green, who was an executive at the Sun-laden startup Cassatt, is returning to Sun to run the software division, recently vacated by John Loiacono, who went to Adobe Systems in March.
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 Chairman Scott McNealy took the stage at JavaOne on its final day. He came out wisecracking.
Expect a vendor slugfest on the lower end of the data warehousing and BI market in the next few years. It will be fascinating to see how these vendors will both enter the entry-level markets, while also seeking to maintain the high-end pricing for the largest users. There could be a value sweet spot in the middle.
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.
Sometimes old is good, but in the case of the Warrnambool Cheese and butter factory, management felt that when an old system ran the risk of alienating employees who've grown used to user friendly Windows-type systems, it's time to make a change.