Apple dropped ZFS support from Mac OS X because of licensing problems?
Online sources claim that Apple decided to drop support for ZFS file system because of potential licensing problems with Sun Microsystems.
Sun had developed this file system for their Solaris platform. It was supposed to be supported in the latest edition of Mac [...]

Oracle acquires Sun Microsystems
Rumors in the market had claimed that IBM was in talks with Sun Microsystems. The talks reportedly did not materialize.
The latest news in the market is that Oracle has now announced their decision to acquire Sun Microsystems.
The deal is worth around $7.4-billion.
This would further strengthen Oracle as they compete [...]

Open Cloud Platform launched by Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems has announced the launch of its own cloud computing platform named Open Cloud Platform.
Sun Microsystems’ Open Cloud Platform is powered by Java, MySQL, OpenSolaris, and Open Storage software technologies.
The company also announced Sun Cloud which is their public cloud-computing service designed for developers and [...]

Wine 1.1.17 now available for download
The developers behind the popular Wine project have released a new version.
Wine 1.1.17 is now available as a free download.
Changelog of this edition:
– Joystick support on Mac OS X.
– Implementation of iphlpapi on Solaris.
– A number of 64-bit improvements.
– Obsolete [...]

Toshiba to offer OpenSolaris powered laptops
This is a surprising new development. Japanese personal computer maker Toshiba has announced that they are collaborating with Sun Microsystems to offer laptops based on their OpenSolaris operating system.
These laptops would go on sale early next year and would be aimed at the geeks.
A company representative said: “Toshiba and [...]

OpenSolaris 2008.11 released
The developers behind the OpenSolaris operating system have released the latest version.
OpenSolaris 2008.11 is now available for download.
OpenSolaris 2008.11 comes loaded with Firefox 3, Gnome 2.24 and OpenOffice 3 in addition to a complete web stack.
System requirements are pretty modest at: 512 MB of RAM and 2.6 GB of [...]

The Infinite Kind is proud to announce Moneydance 2008r2, an update to their full-featured personal financial management application. With a familiar checkbook-register interface, Moneydance includes features such as online banking, online bill payment, investment management, budget tracking, scheduled transactions, check printing, detailed graphs, reports, and much more. Moneydance 2008r2 includes a large number of bug [...]

Fujitsu Primergy to offer Solaris option
Sun Microsystems has announced that they are now collaborating with Fujitsu Siemens Computers to offer their Solaris operating system on their Fujitsu Primergy servers.
The two companies said that Solaris would be offered on Intel x/86/x64 boxes.
Herb Hinstoff, Sun director of Solaris marketing spoke about this new development: “We are essentially [...]

Sun Microsystems set to launch OpenSolaris with support
Sun Microsystems is going to launch today the supported version of OpenSolaris at the CommunityOne conference in San Francisco.
This supported edition would be version 2008.5. Sun spoke about this launch: “It’s a major milestone in the development of OpenSolaris, and opens the door for more deployments.”
They are going [...]

ProjectForum, a wiki-based collaboration application for small and medium workgroups, has been updated to version 6.1. This release improves email support and includes many more changes and enhancements. Anyone can install this powerful but easy-to-use workgroup wiki on Mac OS X in minutes.
Guelph, Ont. – CourseForum Technologies is pleased to announce the immediate availability of [...]