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  • Potential Sun Grid customer: No thanks

    At first blush, Greg Gianforte would seem to be the ideal candidate for Sun Microsystems' Grid service. But the chief executive of RightNow Technologies isn't interested.

  • Google, Sun plan partnership

    Sun Microsystems and Google plan to announce a collaborative effort that some analysts speculate could elevate the profile of the OpenOffice.org and Java software packages.

  • 'Open source Solaris' to debut this year

    Sun Microsystems will create an open-source project around its Solaris 10 operating system by the end of the year, company executives said Monday.

  • Sun Grid to launch in US this week

    Sun Microsystems plans to open its much-delayed public Sun Grid this week or next, letting people use PayPal to buy processing cycles, company president Jonathan Schwartz said.

  • IBM inks grid computing deals

    IBM, one of the loudest advocates of pooling computing resources with grid technology, has secured a half-dozen new customers.

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  • Open-source clan in spat with Sun

    A leading OpenBSD programmer has accused Sun Microsystems of hindering development of the open-source software for its newer computers, causing Sun to scramble to cooperate with the project in response.

  • Office politics grind on grid computing

    Social issues are a bigger problem than technology when it comes to the adoption of the "grid" philosophy of pooling computing resources, according to a study.

  • Virtual infrastructure, at your servers

    Thin clients, make way for a new competitor: hosted, virtual servers and desktops are finally changing the way corporate Australia manages its IT infrastructure.

  • Jonathan Schwartz on the future of Sun

    After a year on the job, Sun's CEO says the company is relevant again but still has problems to fix. In this interview, he admits losing sight of the developer community towards the end of the 1990s, and making what he described as a very bad decision about the company's commitment to Solaris.

  • Sun: 'Frankenstein' computing will end

    In the next few years, a "phase change" will take place as companies stop running their own customised computing infrastructure, Sun Microsystems Chief Technology Officer Greg Papadopoulos predicted Thursday.

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  • HP mixes business with grids

    Hewlett-Packard has begun a push to merge the supercomputing world of "grid" computing with its own business-oriented products.

  • Phoenix toughens up BIOS

    The software that sits between the operating system and a PC's hardware hasn't changed much in decades. Now, Phoenix Technologies wants to introduce greater security, usability and copy protection.

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