Sun

While I was working today, I had my copy of Secunia Personal Software Inspector open up and tell me that my machine was insecure. I looked to see why and quickly saw that one of the three problems was that the Sun Java installation was insecure. I had already downloaded the update, but not installed [...]

Since no one really knows what will happen to Sun after it is swallowed up by Oracle (or, in the case of regulatory problems, if it will be) now might be a really good time to download the very latest version of the Solaris operating system, while it is available, and free.
Tech Connect expounds upon [...]

Manufacturer TSMC has had the job of making chips for fabless companies, like nVidia and AMD, for some time, but really is racking up the companies it will be fabricating for now, with the addition of chips for Sun. Much like the Power chips from IBM, the new Sun chips will be showing innovation at [...]

For those who don’t have their Java Runtime Environment set to check for updates, the version 6 update 15 has been released for consumption.
The Java Runtime Environment (JRE) provides the libraries, the Java Virtual Machine, and other components to run applets and applications written in the Java programming language. In addition, two key deployment technologies [...]

Something happened over the weekend. I’m not sure what it was, but there has been a huge release of beta, freeware, and open source programs that I frequently use for the maintenance of my machines, and the machines of others that I set up. What ever it was, stars in alignment, or a nod from [...]

Almost as a follow up to the article written here about open source in these United States, an article in Tech Connect states that world wide, open source is much more well received, not to mention used, in places other than the United States and the United Kingdom.
Open source elsewhere is thought of highly enough [...]

Larry Dignan seems to be unusually on top of this story, as he gives more insight to the Oracle buyout of Sun.
Stating that Oracle might have valued the hardware division at zero makes many wonder how all that Sun hardware will continue on. Will it be a third party picking up the pieces, or will [...]

Wow – it might be one of those times when Twitter could have been my friend. While I was writing about Sun, and what might happen, or should happen, Larry Dignan has taken a shot over my bow with the news above.
This must have been one of those hush-hush things, where the principals meet in [...]

Paul Murphy (as every article of his says, a pseudonym – ZDNet author) put up an outstanding article concerning the company known as Sun, an why its health should matter to users of other products.
Though I could write about some of the points, such as the competition factor, with Sun helping out AMD, in its [...]

After reading an extremely informative article this morning, on the IT Pro website, I decided to take a gander at the Go Open Office website, which, as mentioned in the article, is run independently of the main Sun site for OpenOffice. The Go version is apparently not losing the steam that the main version, funded [...]

After all the hype, and the inflated share pricing, and the speculation of what IBM would actually do with the company, IBM walks away from the negotiations. The people from Sun balked at the latest offer, and that was enough for IBM to leave.
While it certainly may be a tactic, it is not clear what [...]

I look at BetaNews, today, and I see that there has come into being an entity surrounding the move to cloud computing (I still detest that name, idioms seldom make sense, but why start something that is so stupid to begin? It is distance computing – no more, no less) and beyond that the entity [...]

Reading through the new entries at ZDNet, I find it especially instructive that there are two distinct opinions about what the IT industry should do at this time of low morale and similar funding.
Larry Dignan believes that the time is right for putting upgrades in place, with all the  hardware and software that it entails. [...]

Lots of chatter is going on about the release of Equipt, the newest of Microsoft’s products to rent us our software. On one side there are the opinions of how it is about time, on the other the gasps of how it is finally, dreadfully, here.
In a small way, Dana Blankenhorn, on ZDNet weighs in, [...]

Just announced, and chronicled on Robin Harris’  column on ZDNet, Apple’s next operating system will include the Zettabyte File System, now simply referred to as ZFS.
ZFS is a 128 bit file system, which allows for expansion that is, for all practical purposes, unlimited (why it is, is beyond the scope of this article, but a [...]