Sun showed off its Web Stack on Tuesday, as its name indicates, the stack includes technology used to run Web sites and Web applications. It is based on the AMP portion of the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/Python/PHP), but users will have a choice of operating systems: Sun’s Solaris, Linux, Windows or other operating [...]
Sun Microsystems (NSDQ: JAVA) has a long ways to go before it steps up to compete with Adobe Systems (NSDQ: ADBE) Flash or AJAX or even Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Silverlight in building Web 2.0 applications. But it clearly has that goal in mind as it works on producing a version of JavaFX for the desktop, [...]
A brainchild of Sun Microsystems’ research wing, the Small Programmable Object Technology (Sun SPOT) platform code is now open to Java developers at large.
Sun SPOTs are palm-sized battery powered devices that can wirelessly relay data about movement, temperature and sound. They run on a virtual machine written almost entirely in Java called Squawk, and crank [...]
IBM thinks it can slice the hell out of a server. In fact, it looks to use virtualization as a major weapon against Unix rivals Sun Microsystems and HP and against x86 vendors. Don’t believe us? Then witness the PowerVM branding exercise.
IBM unfurled the PowerVM moniker in front of journalists today, as it announced new [...]
We knew that Sun (JAVA) has been lusting after a real software business in addition to Solaris. We knew that Sun “shares” — that it digs open source, including Solaris and Java. And we knew that Sun had a love-hate relationship with Oracle (ORCL) and a hate-hate relationship with IBM (IBM) and Microsoft (MSFT).
