Oracle acquisition of Sun Microsystems approved by Justice Department
Database industry giant Oracle has said that their acquisition of Sun Microsystems has now received the approval from the Justice Department in the USA.
They are now waiting for approval by the European Commission.
The acquisition deal has been facing issues because of the involvement of technologies [...]
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 [...]
Sun Microsystems all set to enter cloud computing market
Sun Microsystems has announced that they are all set to enter into the crowded cloud computing market.
The company would announce their plans to become a player in this segment next month.
They would reveal the details at the upcoming CommunityOne conference in New York on March 18.
A [...]
Sun releases Java 1.6.0_11 with updates and patches
Sun Microsystems has released a new updated edition of Java.
The company said that this updated edition comes with 34 non-security problem fixes.
Windows users can update their installations to this latest edition from the Java icon in their control panel.
Mac OS X users would require Apple [...]
Sun StarOffice 9 comes with native support for Mac OS X
Sun Microsystems has announced that they have added native support for Mac OS X in StarOffice 9.
The company has massively improved this latest offering as it now adds support for editing PDF Files.
It can also be used for blogging and publishing Wikis.
Of course, it [...]
Sun developing Java for Apple iPhone platform
Sun Microsystems has announced that they are going to use the iPhone’s SDK to develop a version of JAVA for this new platform.
With this Java would come to both Apple iPhone and Apple iPod Touch.
This is great news for the device as it would enable the users of these [...]
