Sun Microsystems news from FierceCIO

Oracle yesterday announced an increase in its profitability to 12.5 percent, news which saw its shares increase. Perhaps more importantly to IT watchers around the globe, the database juggernaut also... Read more...

Newsweek has released its first annual Green Rankings report of the nation's largest 500 companies based on their environmental performance, policies and reputation. Technology companies are very... Read more...

Sun Microsystems has announced that its shareholders have voted in favor of a merger with software juggernaut Oracle. Of course, the acquisition will still have to cross the desk of the U.S.... Read more...

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...