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Sun CIO moves to government sales

July 31, 2006 Bill Vass becomes president and COO at Sun Federal, an offshoot of the server giant that sells to government customers. TAGS: Sun Microsystems Inc., CIO, chairman, server

Sun serves up modular storage

August 10, 2006 Sun has announced the release of two critical application modular storage products under its StorageTek label. TAGS: StorageTek, Sun Microsystems Inc., disk drive, database

The Gap chairman leaving Sun board

July 21, 2006 Robert Fisher informs Sun Microsystems that he won't stand for re-election when his term expires Nov. 2. TAGS: Sun Microsystems Inc., chairman

Sun merges sales and service

March 14, 2006 The company promotes an exec to lead it sales group. TAGS: Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz

Sun program designed to spread Java software

May 15, 2006 With updates and technical support, Sun's new plan encourages PC manufacturers to distribute Java Standard Edition. TAGS: Java software, Sun Microsystems Inc., Java, PC company, PC

Sun to acquire software patch specialist

February 22, 2006 Sun will buy Aduva in an effort to improve its own remote management services and make its computers more reliable. TAGS: Sun Microsystems Inc., patch management, acquisition, California

Sun bumps UltraSparc to 1.8GHz

August 22, 2006 Speed increase improves the overall performance of servers with the chip about 20 percent, Sun Microsystems says. TAGS: Sun UltraSPARC, Sun Microsystems Inc., Intel Itanium, server, IBM Corp., HP

Sun taps EnterpriseDB for PostgreSQL support

August 7, 2006 EnterpriseDB, which has built an Oracle-compatible edition of PostgreSQL, will offer Solaris customers support through Sun. TAGS: EnterpriseDB, PostgreSQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, Oracle Corp., open source, database

Desktop Java beta gallops off

February 15, 2006 Sun releases beta of "Mustang" Java desktop software, which is set to be completed this fall. TAGS: Sun Microsystems Inc., Java, Java Platform, beta

Sun changing course on Itanium plans--again

November 18, 2004 Sun doesn't want to bring its Solaris operating sytem to Intel's Itanium chip. This week. TAGS: Intel Itanium, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Scott McNealy, Jonathan Schwartz, Intel

Sun adopts changes to corporate governance

June 1, 2006 Facing investor ire at its last annual shareholder meeting, company makes two changes to its corporate governance policy. TAGS: corporate governance, shareholder, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Sun patches critical JRE security flaws

January 18, 2007 Patches aimed at vulnerabilities in Java Runtime Environment that could occur when processing GIF images. TAGS: JRE, security flaw, Sun Microsystems Inc., JDK, Java, patch management, Sun Java, vulnerability, SDK, security

Sun sells mainframe rehosting business

August 17, 2006 Clerity Solutions snaps up Sun Microsystems' MTP and MBM business with plans to expand it beyond Solaris. TAGS: mainframe, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, IBM Corp., Linux, server, HP

Sun layoff hits hundreds

August 4, 2006 Second phase of a job cut hits employees of the server and software company, part of a plan to lay off up to 5,000. TAGS: layoff, Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz

Sun Solaris gets new partitioning feature

January 16, 2007 Feature, called Logical Domains, lets Sparc-based servers run multiple copies of Unix variant in separate partitions. TAGS: Sun Solaris, Xen, Sun Microsystems Inc., x86 server, Sun Sparc, dot-com, Unix, server, IBM Corp., copy, HP

Sun debuts blade, hardware subscription plan

January 9, 2007 Refresh service gives server customers at least three upgrades to the latest hardware in 42 months. TAGS: Sun Blade, Sun Microsystems Inc., blade, AMD Opteron, upgrade, server

Ubuntu maker to distribute Sun's Java

November 8, 2006 Canonical's Linux software will include Sun's Glassfish for running Java programs on servers. TAGS: Project GlassFish, Sun Microsystems Inc., Ubuntu, AMD Opteron, Java, Sun Java, open source, server, Linux

Sun pushes pervasive computing

March 6, 2006 Company creates kit aimed at academics and hobbyists for building Java-based wireless-sensor applications. Photo: Sun's SPOT kit TAGS: Sun Microsystems Inc., Java development tool, kit, development tool, Java

Sun and Quantum settle patent suit

March 1, 2006 Quantum to pay $25 million to settle patent infringement lawsuit over Sun's storage technology. TAGS: Quantum Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., StorageTek, license agreement
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