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  • A year later: Has Oracle ruined or saved Sun?

    Posted February 10, 2011 - 2:56 pm

    The company irks open source advocates but is steadfast in upgrading Sun-derived technologies

  • Java developers' reaction to Oracle, Google lawsuit

    Posted August 27, 2010 - 3:14 pm

    What do the programmers and companies that depend on the Java software family make of Oracle suing Google? To find out, we asked them.

  • Sun's stars: Where are they now? And why did they leave?

    Posted May 18, 2010 - 11:39 am

    Oracle, which spent $7.4 billion to acquire once-high-flying Sun Microsystems, has been losing prominent Sun technologists since shortly after the deal was forged. The acquisition was supposed to give Oracle control not only over such technologies as Sun's flagship Java implementation and Sun's Sparc hardware, but access to engineers and developers who were nothing short of celebrities in their field. But it has not worked out that way.

  • Java developers OK with Oracle -- so far

    Posted April 14, 2010 - 4:53 pm

    Technologists don't see anything to worry about since Oracle took over Sun's prized Java technologies -- but they haven't relaxed yet, either.

  • IT industry graveyard 2009

    Posted October 27, 2009 - 1:15 pm

    Paying respects to Nortel as we knew it, Circuit City and more.

  • JavaFX squares off against AJAX

    Posted June 8, 2009 - 1:36 pm

    In a mock debate focused on the rich Internet application development realm, AJAX was pitted against Sun Microsystems' JavaFX Friday, with proponents for both technologies pointing up their entrant's high points and the low points of their rival.

  • Oracle Leaves 'Em Wanting More on Its Plans for Sun

    Posted April 27, 2009 - 1:35 pm

    Oracle hasn't said much about what it intends to do after buying Sun. Users are waiting for answers.

  • Before Sun: Oracle's recent acquisitions

    Posted April 20, 2009 - 1:28 pm

    Oracle hasn't been shy in recent years about snapping up other companies, including big-name outfits such as BEA Systems, PeopleSoft and Siebel Systems. Here's a quick rundown of Oracle's most recent deals, prior to the proposed $7.4 billion Sun Microsystems buyout announced Monday.

  • Where did Sun go wrong?

    Posted April 10, 2009 - 1:11 pm

    Sun Microsystems, one of Silicon Valley's biggest innovators, faces a tough road alone after walking away from a deal with IBM.

  • The security imperative

    Posted December 30, 2008 - 4:37 pm

    Leslie Lambert, vice president and chief information security officer at Sun Microsystems Inc., returned from a three-week business trip to India with a few souvenirs and a whole new set of IT security priorities. In 2009, projects like server security, metrics, application security and Web security will likely take a back seat to new data-protection measures and deeper enhancement of user-access and identity management systems. "Those are the big hitters now," she says.

  • He said what? -- The oddly informative news quiz

    Posted December 11, 2008 - 5:35 pm

    Who isn't afraid of a little healthy debate, no matter how inflammatory? Who blew minds in 1968 with visions of a responsive computer? Who celebrated purified water by dancing on air? Who discovered that Mega-D is back and badder than ever? Think you know? Take the quiz already!

  • What tech-industry CEOs are saying about the economy

    Posted October 27, 2008 - 4:40 pm

    Until September, the U.S. tech industry appeared insulated from the year-long economic slowdown. Most of the 20 largest U.S. tech firms reported solid second-quarter earnings in July and August, and they were projecting continued growth in sales through the year-end. Then Wall Street crashed. Here's the latest word from tech executives about current market conditions and the outlook for the rest of this year.

  • Market meltdown: Which tech firms become predator and prey?

    Posted October 13, 2008 - 4:31 pm

    While most eyes are still on stopping the bleed on Wall Street, smart tech companies will likely take a page out of Warren Buffet's playbook by looking for merger and acquisition opportunities with stocks at multi-year lows. Here's a run-down of the potential prey and predators in this new buyer's market.

  • Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed?

    Posted September 24, 2008 - 3:09 pm

    Linux is enjoying growth, with a contingent of devotees too large to be called a cult following at this point. Solaris, meanwhile, has thrived as a longstanding, primary Unix platform geared to enterprises. But with Linux the object of all the buzz in the industry, can Sun's rival Solaris Unix OS hang on, or is it destined to be displaced by Linux altogether?
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