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Microsoft and Novell announced this week a deal to promote and support Novell's Suse Linux alongside Windows. That's right, Microsoft will promote and support Linux -- but only as long as it's from Novell. Following last week's big news of an Oracle-Linux play, Microsoft and Novell said that they wo...

Picking up the pace after somewhat of a piecemeal approach to open sourcing the Java programming language over the last several months, Sun Microsystems Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Schwartz said the company will open the core Java code to the community by year's end. Speaking at Oracle OpenWorl...

Sun Microsystems and the Internet Systems Consortium, a nonprofit corporation that provides infrastructure for the global Domain Name System, announced Wednesday that the ISC chose the free and open source Solaris 10 Operating System and Sun Fire x64 server as an F-root server, one of the 13 root DN...

Java backer Sun Microsystems and open source application development player Laszlo Systems have announced a partnership to support OpenLaszlo applications on Java Micro Edition devices. The two companies said the deal will boost the portability and flexibility of both products, and would form the ba...

Most fans of Linux know that while the open source operating system has proven its might in corporate computer servers, it has languished on the desktop, where Microsoft maintains its monopoly. While companies such as Linspire, Xandros and others try to make Linux more appealing on the desktop, Ubun...

Sun Microsystems on Monday announced the creation of an independent OpenSPARC Community Advisory Board. The board is chartered with setting the direction for the OpenSPARC community, which fosters the creation of tools and derivative chip designs based on Sun's UltraSPARC T1 processor. OpenSPARC now...

Solectron, a provider of electronics manufacturing and integrated supply chain services, won a multi-year contract from Sun Microsystems for its legacy StorageTek product line. As part of the agreement, Sun will transfer to Solectron the operations at its StorageTek manufacturing facility in Puerto ...

Sun Microsystems last week open sourced another chunk of Java development code, but some are criticizing the company for not declaring all of Java open source at once and under the same open source license. Sun released source code for Java Mobile Edition development tools under the Common Developme...

The IT industry phrase "a single throat to choke" stems from the idea that it's beneficial to have a single, trusted provider of software support than several sharing that all-important responsibility. However, recent research indicates only a minority of organizations are looking to open source sta...

Sun Microsystems announced this week the availability of source code for its NetBeans Mobility Pack and NetBeans Mobility Pack for CDC, which will be released under the OSI-compliant Common Development and Distribution License. The tools are intended to simplify and speed the creation of applicatio...

In an attempt to push ahead in the competitive server market, Sun Microsystems on Tuesday unveiled three high-end products for use in data centers as part of its x86 server platform. Included in the announcement are a 16-way x64 server, a hybrid data server and a blade platform. The three new x64 se...

Sun Microsystems will continue its ongoing investment in open source and the AJAX application model by joining the OpenAJAX Alliance and Dojo Foundation, the company said. Sun intends to drive open standards for AJAX programming and increase interoperability across AJAX technologies through its part...

Sun Microsystems is touting the growth of its one-year-old open source project OpenSolaris, indicating the open code effort for its formerly closed Solaris operating system has drawn thousands of developers, hundreds of contributions, and millions in revenue. Celebrating the OpenSolaris anniversary ...

Novell this week unveiled an open source identity management project called "Bandit," aimed at interoperability among disparate identity systems and consistency in securing and managing identities, which can number in the thousands for enterprises. There have been numerous attempts at a uniform iden...

Sun Microsystems partnered with a somewhat unlikely ally as it announced Tuesday that the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system would run on its latest Sparc servers, the 'Niagara'-based Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 enterprise servers. The two may combine for a powerful server punch, as Sun's Ultra-Spar...

Sun Microsystems announced this week the availability of four new plug-in modules for the open source NetBeans integrated development environment. The new plug-in modules include Jackpot, Real Time Java technology, Web Services Interoperability Technology and Grid Compute Server for NetBeans. The ne...

In his opening keynote speech at the 11th annual JavaOne developer conference, Sun Microsystems President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz outlined new Java solutions and open source plans in front of thousands of international attendees. "It's not a question of whether, but a question of how," Schwartz to...

Sun Microsystems on Thursday announced that the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 specification has been approved by the Java Community Process Java EE/SE Executive Committee. Java EE is a platform for Java and Web services deployment. It has 30 licensees and includes innovations provided by more ...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's open source security audit program has identified the biggest X Window System security vulnerability in the last six years. The X Window System is used in Unix and Linux operating systems. It also ships as an optional GUI with Apple's Macintosh computers. C...

VMware and a group of hardware, software and service providers on Monday announced the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Alliance to build joint virtual desktop products together. IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, NEC, and Sun are among the more than 20 companies that make up the new alliance. Virtualizat...