I just got done reading Sun president and COO Jonathan Schwartz's most recent blog entry, most of which describes the business model that put Red Hat on the map with Linux -- but that does so in the context of Sun's recently released OpenSolaris and how, by crossing the digital divide, all technology boats will float a little higher. Wrote Schwartz, "And I'd rather get 20% of a business that's planetary in scope, than 100% of a business with 17 customers.
Sun microsystems is recruiting iPlanet head Mark Tolliver to be its Web-services "czar," as part of a plan to catch up with its rivals on the path to the future of computing.
update One of the most useful tidbits from the basket of code released into the public domain this year by Sun Microsystems is likely to make it to the FreeBSD platform. Sun's Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) tool is one of the most-touted features of the company's Solaris 10 operating system, released in January, and provides advanced performance analysis and debugging features for server software.
Oracle's acquisition of BEA will boost the latter's presence in Asia Pacific, as well as strengthening Oracle's foothold in the telecommunications space, but there will be no serious ramifications on the local market, according to analysts.
Scott McNealy--master of the high-tech taunt, the man who labeled Microsoft an evil empire, the bigmouthed promoter of all things Sun--was counseling humility?
Greenberg's Forbes article on the Sun/MySQL deal is likely to influence your boss's view of the matter - meaning that the errors and ignorance expressed in the article will ultimately affect decision making where you work.
The cynical bottom line is that money saved on IT is money that doesn't go into the IT budget - and therefore that saving money isn't in the IT director's personal best interest.
Kirill Tatarinov, president of Microsoft's business solutions division, said "switching from Siebel is becoming very popular in large enterprise."
update The Oracle community, says David Litchfield, shouldn't be so smug when it comes to database security.
A database problem puts the popular travel site out of commission, rendering it unavailable to visitors at the height of the busy summer travel season.
Google finally launches its Find My Device network. Here are the Android models that support it
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Inside a fake $20 '16TB external M.2 SSD'