Sun's VP and chief technical officer, John Fowler, recently discussed
the significant agreement reached between Sun and Microsoft that ended
the ongoing litigation between those two companies. The interview
specifically focused on the impact the agreement has on Sun's Software
business, as well as the Java platform, other standards efforts and
open source.
Sun's CEO Scott McNealy talked with Computerworld.com about topics such
as the data center and R&D to competitors and even the current
SCO/IBM/Novell debacle. McNealy conceded a point or two, such as Sun's
high cost structure, but overall defended the way Sun is positioned as
well as its plans for the future.
Livestock Improvement Corporation Ltd. of New Zealand operates one of
the largest bovine databases in the world. When they needed to reduce
their licensing costs, they migrated 130 GB of dairy herd records from
DB2 on IBM's OS/390 to DB2 on the Solaris Operating System (Solaris
OS).
Companies continue to be persuaded away from Microsoft Windows and
towards Linux and the Sun Java Desktop System, according to a
recent theglobeandmail.com article. Taking advantage of the familiar
Windows look and feel that the Sun Java Desktop System sports, Mark
Johnson, senior network and systems engineer for MDSI Mobile Data
Solutions, is evaluating the Sun solution and contemplating an outright
switch.
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