McNealy: Sun Micro Gambles On Free Operating System
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More than one way to skin a market. Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ) believes the pricing on Solaris 10 will be irresistible: nada.
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NEW YORK, November 15  - Sun Microsystems Inc (SUNW.NAS) has introduced the latest version of its operating system, Solaris 10, which would be offered to end-users for free.
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Pays $1bn for Web's favourite free database Sun Microsystems is to pay $1bn for open source database developer MySQL.â¦
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Sun Microsystems Inc. will offer utility computing services priced at less than a dollar per node per hour, it announced Tuesday.
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Businesses don&#39;t have to dump Windows to test drive free or low-price applications whose use may improve the bottom line. Sometimes the big software vendors act like their customers are locked into the proprietary products they sell.
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By its very nature, open-source software would appear to run counter to the goals of venture capitalists. Not only is it distributed and developed for free by a loose-knit group of techies from around the
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While Sun Microsystems on Monday held its official launch of the Solaris 10 operating system, the future of the operating system, and perhaps Sun itself, was being decided many miles away, at organizations such as the Philadelphia Stock Exchange and FedEx
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Taking an innovative approach to the marketing of high-performance  computing, Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) is offering its N1 Grid program in a pay-for-use pricing model that mimics the way such commodities as electricity and wireless phone plans are sold.
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Acronym mayhem Sun Microsystems has come up with its own version of the certified LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) software stack. It won't take you too long to spot the difference.â¦
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Open source is changing the game by making software free.  About time.
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Letters: Going deeper on the question of security and operating systems.
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Sun's announcement that it would be releasing Java under the GNU GPL confounded many of its critics (including myself) who had feared that the company was incapable of making such a bold move.&nbsp; Quite rightly, it has garnered praise from across the hacker world.&nbsp; But Sun's relationship with free software has not always been so idyllic.
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If you were expecting a sneak peak of an open source Solaris or to buy the new commercial version next week, don&#39;t hold your breath.
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A startup promises to install solar panels on your roof for free, and sell you the power for pennies. Is it a revolution, or clean-energy vaporware? By Marty Graham.
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How far is too far when it comes to the freedom of software? Plus: Palm slipping, Windows sliding.
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Windows? Linux? Mac OS? One day it won't matter.
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Sun Microsystems Inc. today is expected to unveil the much-awaited âfreeâ version of its Operating System, Solaris 10, which the company is betting on to help neutralize the open-source threat and increase profitability.