Sun Microsystems news from FierceCIO

Microsoft Office remains the prevalent productivity suite among enterprise customers, with 80 percent of enterprise customers using some version of Microsoft Office. This finding was noted in a new... Read more...

The CommunityOne event saw Sun Microsystems introduce a new version of the OpenSolaris operating system. OpenSolaris 2009.06 comes with significant performance enhancements, as well as new features... Read more...

The Internet is endless, right? Wrong. The Internet is power hungry and its increasing appetite for electricity may soon cause a disaster. "In an energy-constrained world, we cannot continue to grow... Read more...

The next version of Sun's Solaris operating system could be released sometime in mid-2010. Though nothing has been publicly announced, Sun apparently has been telling its customers that this is the... Read more...

By now, you must have heard the announcement that Oracle will acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion. Some reporters managed to catch up with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in Moscow, where they... Read more...

In a stunning new development, Oracle announced today that it will acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion. The agreement comes just two weeks after IBM ended its talks with Sun. IBM had lowered... Read more...

Talks by IBM to acquire rival Sun Microsystems have fallen apart, in part due to Sun rejecting an offer from IBM as being too low, among a rejection of other conditions attached to the deal. IBM,... Read more...

Many companies are hesitant about embracing cloud computing. While the concept allows companies to store data off site, enabling startups to build their businesses without significant investments in... Read more...

Sun Microsystems may be Big Blue's next conquest. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the two companies have been in talks and there could be a deal as early as this week. If the companies... Read more...

Sporting a new, multi-threaded design, Sun Microsystem's 16-core "Rock" server processor is on track to be released in fall of this year. While John Fowler, executive vice president of systems at Sun... Read more...