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Sun banks on open source for its survival
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| "We are preconfigured for the downturn," Schwartz said in an interview with
| Computerworld last month. He claimed that users will be more inclined to try
| open-source products such as MySQL, OpenSolaris and Sun's GlassFish
| application server during a time of economic stress.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9120338&source=rss_topic122
Sun Microsystems Aligns Business with Global Economic Climate and Amplifies
Growth Opportunities Across Open Source Platforms
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| As part of this effort, Sun is announcing a global workforce reduction and
| alignment of its Software organization into new business groups --
| Application Platform Software, Systems Platforms, and Cloud Computing &
| Developer Platforms - with a focus on boosting open source momentum and
| growing new sectors of the market who view technology as a competitive
| weapon.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Sun-Microsystems-Aligns-Business-Global/story.aspx?guid=%7BB5EA7472-823E-4ACB-9471-4F90ABEDF4F5%7D
GNU/Linux is hurting them. They might as well just join.
Related:
Sun Microsystems' Next Linux Move
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| Rather, Sun is preparing to certify more of its servers for Canonical's
| Ubuntu Linux. The effort includes Sun's latest small and midsize business
| servers. In an interview with Reuters on April 2, Canonical CEO Mark
| Shuttleworth reinforced the growing relations between Sun and Ubuntu.
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http://seekingalpha.com/article/71011-sun-microsystems-next-linux-move
Sun deploys Linux high performance cluster at Kuwait Oil Company
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| Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) has deployed a Linux-based High Performance Cluster
| from Sun Microsystems to run its reservoir simulation software, increase its
| processing power, and enable the company to take critical business decisions
| faster than ever before.
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http://www.arabianbusiness.com/index.php?option=com_pressreleases&view=detail&pr_id=10633&Itemid=77&ln=en
Sun's X64-Based Streaming Server Runs on Linux
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| The Linux used in the system is one that Kealia created for itself
| based on an undisclosed commercial distribution with some real-time
| hooks in it to boost the responsiveness of the system. Over the long
| haul, you can bet that Sun will port the Streaming System software
| to Solaris.
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http://www.itjungle.com/breaking/bn042607-story01.html
Move from Solaris to RHEL boosts performance for the Chicago Mercantile
Exchange
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| At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the traders betting on future commodity
| price fluctuations aren't the only ones who know what it means to take a
| risk. Five years ago, Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), now part of the CME
| Group, placed a hefty bet: that it could trust Linux with the heart of its
| business, executing billions of contracts a year and processing them faster
| than previously.
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http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid39_gci1309889,00.html
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