When it comes to operating systems, Microsoft, IBM and Apple aren’t the only mega-companies with all the knowledge. Sun, with its Solaris OS, has years of expertise with Unix-based operating systems.

Every dollar schools and universities spend on expensive, proprietary software is a dollar less spent on education. So it is really no surprise that schools and universities worldwide have embraced ...

Sun Microsystems plans to launch an Enterprise Edition of its StarOffice software in 2004 that will feature better management and a tie-in to network services. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

Sun's Java Desktop System for Linux hit the streets in December. However, the company doesn't expect to deliver its server stack and tools for Linux until later this year. Simon Phipps, chief ...

The second version of Java Desktop System will debut on Tuesday with extra features to lure developers. It's the latest part of Sun's effort to offset its server sales slump. Stephen Shankland worked ...

Sun Microsystems plans to expand its Linux software portfolio substantially over the coming year, including a version of its Java server software suite. The company is preparing a version of its Java ...

Santa Clara, Calif.-based Sun hopes the combo will attract custom system builders. John Fowler, Sun's CTO for Software, acknowledged, though, that the Java Desktop System would initially only exploit ...

March 22, 2004 — Sun Microsystems is planning a number of announcements in coming weeks to redouble efforts to use aggressive pricing and technological innovation to win customers from competitors, ...

I got an interesting comment in response to last week's blog on desktop Linux in which the person refered to Stephen Shankland's CNET news report from June of 2005 entitled: "Sun steps back from ...

Taking the per-employee pricing model it introduced last September a great leap forward, Sun Microsystems Inc. last week said it’s readying a per-citizen licensing plan for countries using its Java ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. is pulling back plans to market and sell its Linux-based desktop operating system and is considering giving the technology to the open-source community, the company quietly ...