Sun Microsystems News

Demolition crews tear down one of the former Sun Microsystems buildings in Louisville on Wednesday.

Cerner Corporation of North Kansas City, Missouri, will become a component of the NASDAQ-100 Index , the NASDAQ-100 Equal Weighted Index and the NASDAQ-100 Technology Sector Index prior to market open on Friday, July 17, 2009.

Andreas Bechtolsheim is a founder of Sun Microsystems and chief development officer for Arista Networks, a start-up that supplies networking gear used to build massive arrays of servers for so-called cloud computing.

In October, the president of one of the world's largest software makers, Oracle Corp., traveled from company headquarters in Redwood Shores, Calif., to West Jordan to draw attention to the groundbreaking of a 179,000-square-foot, $285 million data center.

Sun Microsystems Inc will distribute an Internet-based PC backup service from tiny industry pioneer Carbonite, which competes with tech industry giants EMC Corp and Symantec Corp.

Sun Microsystems recently dismissed 61 employees in Dallas as part of a broader restructuring, according to a company filing with the Texas Workforce Commission .

A competing technology to Microsoft's Silverlight, JavaFX provides the tools to fill and pen stroke colors, and create special effects, shapes, and lines.

Sun Microsystems , Inc. and the NetBeans developer community today announced the availability of the NetBeans Integrated Development Environment 6.7. This new version of NetBeans features tight integration with Project Kenai, Sun's collaborative hosting site for free and open source projects.

Sun Microsystems released VirtualBox 3.0 today. One goal of this release is supporting workloads, such as database management systems, some collaborative applications and many web-based applications that rely on multiple processes running simultaneously.

Fast track approval of the merger is denied, for reasons unclear. Java is likely the source of contention.

The Department of Justice wants more information about Oracle Corp.'s planned takeover of computer server maker Sun Microsystems Inc.

Hyejin Park is a Sun Campus Ambassador from Korea who attended JavaOne 2009 . She has written a fantastic blog about her experience at JavaOne which I am re-posting here in full.

U.S. antitrust regulators have asked for more information on Oracle Corp's plan to buy Sun Microsystems Inc and need a little more time to review the $7 billion deal, an attorney for Oracle said.

Servers can now earn the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star label in recognition of their green qualities , but most observers aren't expecting this program to cause substantial changes in how enterprises buy servers anytime soon.

Despite an uncertain future once it is acquired by Oracle, Sun Microsystems launched several new hardware and software products for high-performance computing this week.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced new products that enhance the Sun Constellation System, including a new InfiniBand Quad Data Rate switch for optimal cluster interconnect performance, new Sun HPC Software Linux Edition 2.0 for faster and simpler cluster deployment, and Sun Grid Engine 6.2 Update 3 for ease of management.

Rumors be damned, Sun continues to beef up its high performance computing product line.

Oracle Corp. , the worlda s largest business software company, is expected to post profit and sales declines when it reports results for its fiscal fourth-quarter after Tuesdaya s closing bell.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced new products that enhance the Sun Constellation System, including a new InfiniBand Quad Data Rate switch for optimal cluster interconnect performance, new Sun HPC Software Linux Edition 2.0 for faster and simpler cluster deployment, and Sun Grid Engine 6.2 Update 3 for ease of management.

"Sun Studio 12 Update 1 software has not only significant updates that help developers take applications to the next level of performance, but is also leading the industry with tooling that allows developers to more easily create parallel and concurrent software applications on today's and tomorrow's platforms," said Jim McHugh, vice president, ...