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Exclusive: Former MySQL boss Marten Mickos talks open source
Comment In an exclusive interview, former MySQL boss and silicon.com Agenda Setter, Marten Mickos talks to Tim Ferguson about the state of open source, Oracle's plans to buy Sun Microsystems and the value of... [19 Nov 2009]
Virtualizing the Infrastructure With Sun x86 Blades
White Paper Sun Microsystems has a long history of engineering systems that are optimized for network-enabled workloads. Sun has innovated by developing a sophisticated shared Network Interface Card... [12 Nov 2009]
Sun and VMware Solutions Guide for Windows Server Consolidation
White Paper To this end, Sun offers a range of simple, high-performance, easy-to-deploy, low-cost, and innovative storage solutions for Windows consolidation efforts. When combined with VMware Infrastructure software,... [12 Nov 2009]
Using PostgreSQL and Solaris 10 to Improve Data Warehouse Performance
White Paper OmniTI is an Internet technologies consulting company based in Columbia, Maryland. OmniTI wanted to scale up to meet customer's growing database requirements and gain flexibility to handle growing workload without reengineering processes. [09 Oct 2009]
FOAF+SSL: RESTful Authentication for the Social Web
White Paper The paper describes a simple protocol for RESTful authentication, using widely deployed technologies such as HTTP, SSL/TLS and Semantic Web vocabularies. This protocol can be used for one-click sign-on to web sites using existing... [05 Oct 2009]
Former MySQL boss joins Benchmark Capital
News Marten Mickos, the one-time chief executive of MySQL who left about a year after Sun Microsystems acquired the open source database company, has joined Benchmark Capital as an entrepreneur in residence. [01 Oct 2009]
Marten Mickos
AS Profile Marten Mickos left MySQL, the open source database company founded in 1995, at the beginning of the year, less than 12 months after it was acquired by Sun Microsystems. Sun has of course... [29 Sep 2009]
Larry Ellison
AS Profile And 2009 was no exception as Oracle secured its biggest acquisition in the shape of a $7.4bn megadeal for server and software maker Sun Microsystems. As CEO of Oracle, Ellison hasn't made it onto the... [29 Sep 2009]
Eric Schmidt
AS Profile Prior to joining Google in 2001, Schmidt was chairman and CEO of open source software company Novell as well as CTO at Sun Microsystems where he helped develop Java. Google CEO Eric Schmidt makes the... [29 Sep 2009]
Oracle-Sun steaming ahead with joint plans despite EU probe
News Oracle isn't letting the EU investigation stand in the way of its plans for the acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Larry Ellison, the software giant's chief executive, is joining Sun's... [15 Sep 2009]
Oracle-Sun deal to go under the EU's microscope
News On Thursday, the European Commission said it will take a closer look at Oracle's planned $7.4bn purchase of Sun Microsystems. ZDNet UK has more on the EC's planned probe into the... [04 Sep 2009]
Migrating Oracle e-Business Suite 11i From Sun Solaris to an HP-UX and Linux Split Configuration
White Paper This white paper describes the procedures for migrating an Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) 11i application and database tiers from a Sun Microsystems SPARC-based server running Solaris to a split... [02 Sep 2009]
Getting PCI DSS Compliance Right: How Identity Management Can Help Secure Information Access
White Paper Sun identity and access management software provides key components that organizations need to build such an infrastructure. Complying with the requirements of PCI DSS is a top IT priority for many companies today. [02 Sep 2009]
Oracle-Sun deal gets official US stamp of approval
News Oracle said on Thursday that the US Department of Justice has approved its plan to buy Sun Microsystems. With Sun's shareholders having given the $9.50 per share deal the nod last month,... [21 Aug 2009]
Google Chrome for Linux, arriving soon in 64 bits
News In the browser world, for example, it can be problematic running a 64-bit browser with a 32-bit plug-in such as Adobe Systems' Flash, Microsoft's Silverlight, or Sun Microsystems' Java. Google has begun... [21 Aug 2009]
