Sun CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, has been getting a fair bit of publicity in the last week or so for a recent blog, entitled - JavaFX Hits 100,000,000 Milestone! - in which he called the news that Sun has shipped 100M copies of the JavaFX run-time “extraordinary”. Some have been reacting nega...

Sun Microsystems oferă utilizatorilor posibilitatea de a testa ultima versiune de OpenSolaris pe o maşină fizică cu control de la distanţă prin intermediul unui laborator vitual [1]. După înregistrarea (gratuită) la Sun Developers Network aveţi la dispoziţie timp de o oră un sistem într...

US Mobile Game Market Share, Nov 2008 In the next few weeks, Sun Microsystems will launch JavaFX Mobile.  For the mobile industry (handset makers, and network operators), this represents a huge opportunity:  to transform the mobile software industry. However there’s a couple of things that w...

Updated with this response from the company: On November 14, 2008, Sun announced a series of changes designed to align its cost model with the global economy and accelerate the introduction of compelling open source innovations. As part of that effort Sun announced a global workforce reduction of ap...

Sprint’s workforce will be hit hard in the first quarter as the telecom business faces tough economic times and plans to cut layoff as many as 8,000 employees. That’s not the only bad news as it would also be suspending its 401K match for the current year. Although this would initially cost the ...

Here are my notes from the Legacy apps session on Day 2 at the Cloud Connect Event put on by TechWeb. Thanks to David Berlind and Angela Bole and their team for putting on the event. Moderating: David Berlind, General Manager & Co-Creator, Cloud Connect Moderated: Rob Helm, Director of Research,...

Yesterday AMD announced that it was building a specialty supercomputer to deliver gaming through a computing cloud. Aside from the coolness of being able to play your video games on an iPhone, pause them, and pick them up at home, the news bolsters the cloud business model — taking it beyond s...

We used to say in my profession -- public relations -- that you shouldn't say or write anything that you wouldn't want to turn up on the front page of the New York Times. Now what I like to tell clients instead is: You shouldn't say or write anything that you wouldn't want to turn up in Google searc...

It's hard to win developer loyalty, no matter how good your code, if everyone assumes you're circling the drain and are likely to disappear down the line. by Dana Blankenhorn...

There’s some great software coming out of Sun Microsystems at the moment, with new product releases being seen right across the board.  There are new versions of virtualization and OS software; a new version of the MySQL database; a new version of the Glassfish app server; a new version of Ja...