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  Maritime Safety Authority CIO sticks with Oracle Sun hardware

  The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) will expand its Oracle Sun hardware and software installation and set up a supplier panel for future upgrades and support services, all with the blessing of the CIO.

  By Rodney Gedda | 08 February, 2011 11:30

  Tags: Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA), Ewan Perrin, government, oracle, servers, sparc64, Sun Mircosystems

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  LibreOffice 3.3 released, first since OpenOffice split

  LibreOffice, the fork of the open source OpenOffice.org productivity suite, has released it first stable product in version 3.3, now available for download.

  By Rodney Gedda | 26 January, 2011 01:00

  Tags: LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org, open source, oracle, Sun Mircosystems

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  Ghost of Sun's Schwartz chides Oracle's Google lawsuit

  Oracle's recent patent infringement lawsuit against Google around the way its Android operating system uses Java is contradictory to the apparent joy of former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz in a blog post three years ago still hosted by Oracle.

  By Rodney Gedda | 24 August, 2010 10:18

  Tags: Android, oracle, Sun Mircosystems, patents, lawsuits, Java, Google

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  Oracle signals an end to OpenSolaris

  Oracle appeared to confirm this week what many in the computer industry already suspected: The OpenSolaris project is dead.

  By James Niccolai | 14 August, 2010 08:50

  Tags: OpenSolaris, open source, oracle, Sun Mircosystems, unix

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  Tassie cops refresh 'legacy' Sun, move to Web services

  Tasmania’s Department of Police and Emergency Management will spend about $200,000 to modernise its 'legacy Sun Solaris-based infrastructure which has hosted is core business applications for more than two decades.

  By Rodney Gedda | 31 May, 2010 13:45

  Tags: government, Linux, oracle, police, solaris, Sun Mircosystems, tasmania, unix, virtualisation

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  Oracle resumes construction of massive data centre

  Oracle has started up work again on a large data centre in the Salt Lake City, Utah, area, after suspending the project without public explanation last year.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 04 May, 2010 03:17

  Tags: data centre, oracle, Sun Mircosystems

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  Java founder James Gosling leaves Oracle

  James Gosling, the creator of the Java programming language, has resigned from Oracle, he announced in a blog entry on Friday

  By Joab Jackson | 12 April, 2010 05:15

  Tags: James Gosling, Java, oracle, Sun Mircosystems

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  Oracle set to merge Java virtual machines

  Oracle's plan to merge the Sun HotSpot Java Virtual Machine with the JRockit JVM is still evolving, but a single JVM based on both technologies is expected in 18 months to two years, an Oracle official said during a Webcast this week.

  By Paul Krill | 19 February, 2010 00:04

  Tags: Java, oracle, Sun Mircosystems, virtual machines

• Oracle brings Solaris, Sparc into virtualization portfolio

  Oracle plans to broaden its range of virtualization offerings, thanks to a number of applications obtained in the Sun Microsystems acquisition, said Oracle chief architect Edward Screven.

  By Joab Jackson | 28 January, 2010 10:37

  Tags: oracle, solaris, sparc, Sun Mircosystems, virtualisation

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  Oracle to scale back Sun server line, make other changes

  Oracle will pare back Sun Microsystems' server lines and move to a build-to-order model to cut costs and get the hardware company back to profitability, Oracle executives said on Wednesday.

  By James Niccolai | 28 January, 2010 07:09

  Tags: oracle, Oracle-Sun merger, servers, sparc, Sun Mircosystems

• European Union clears Oracle's purchase of Sun

  The European Commission granted Oracle an unconditional approval to take over Sun Microsystems on Thursday, following a controversial and drawn out examination of the deal.The deal still awaits approval in other jurisdictions, including Russia and China, but approval in the European Union is a big step forward for a deal hailed by some as transformational for the entire software industry, and by others as the killer of one of the most successful open source programs in the world, the MySQL database.

  By Paul Meller | 21 January, 2010 22:50

  Tags: databases, mergers and acquisitions, mysql, oracle, Sun Mircosystems

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  Oracle-Sun merger foes head East

  With the European Commission seen as virtually certain to approve Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems in just a week, those campaigning to prevent the deal encompassing Sun's MySQL database unit have shifted their efforts to regulators in Russia and China.

  By Paul Meller | 19 January, 2010 02:35

  Tags: mergers and acquisitions, mysql, oracle, Oracle-Sun merger, Sun Mircosystems

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  Sun, Fujitsu speed Sparc server

  Sun and Fujitsu upgraded their Sparc Enterprise M3000 server, equipping it with newer hardware to deliver faster performance, the companies said on Tuesday.

  By Agam Shah | 13 January, 2010 12:28

  Tags: Fujitsu, servers, sparc, Sun Mircosystems

• Sun offers enterprise Java technologies but silence on Oracle

  Sun Microsystems officials introduced on Thursday Sun's upgrades to three Java-based technologies, including the company's latest implementation of enterprise Java. But they were silent on the elephant in the room: How the company's efforts might be impacted by the planned acquisition of Sun by Oracle.

  By Paul Krill | 11 December, 2009 08:05

  Tags: Java, oracle, Sun Mircosystems

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  Sun to shed light on latest Java technologies

  Sun Microsystems, which has been pretty much silent in recent months while awaiting its merger with Oracle, will open up on Thursday about the latest developments in its Java technologies.

  By Paul Krill | 08 December, 2009 07:19

  Tags: Java, Sun Mircosystems