Michael Singer

Sun Microsystems is revamping its services business in a bid to ramp up competition with offerings from rivals such as IBM and Microsoft . The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company launched the two major services initiatives as part of its Network Computing ’05 (NC05Q1) event Tuesday. The offerings include the debut of Sun’s new Client Solutions […]

BURLINGAME, Calif. — Linux creator Linus Torvalds defended the open source movement against critics who say that the so-called “community of communities” should band together or risk ending up like Unix. “One of the big strengths of open source is that you have little coupling between these projects,” Torvalds said during an Open Source Development […]

Eric Raymond, the co-founder and president of the Open Source Initiative, is stepping down from his post, the organization said Tuesday. The departure is one of several personnel and strategy changes at OSI, which is dedicated to promoting open source software. Raymond cited no reason for his departure but said he will continue to do […]

Sun Microsystems is celebrating the first anniversary of its Java Enterprise System (JES) with new services and lower-priced models, the company is expected to announce Tuesday. During a quarterly update event (dubbed NC05 Q1), Sun’s executives are slated to outline the changes to the company’s marquee business application platform, which sought to disrupt the market […]

The semiconductor market hit new sales records last year thanks to a surge in PC and wireless handsets. A report issued today by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reveals worldwide sales of semiconductors topped $213 billion in 2004. The number is a 28 percent jump from the $166.4 billion recorded in 2003 and the first […]

Two Silicon Valley giants are teaming up once again in the data center with the lure of consolidation with blade servers . HP is hoping to entice potential high-end customers with complementary switch technology from Cisco Systems . The companies said a new Cisco Gigabit Ethernet Switch Module incorporated with the existing HP BladeSystem p-Class […]

Two software vendors announced a new partnership that pairs an embedded Linux distribution with a Java solution for next-generation mobile phones. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based MontaVista Software said it will use Esmertec’s Jbed Advanced multitasking J2ME-platform atop its MontaVista Linux Consumer Electronics Edition (CEE). The two companies plan on marketing the combination to mobile handset and wireless […]

A patent watchdog group is raising questions about the legal language behind Sun Microsystems’ recent open source offering called OpenSolaris. The Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) is criticizing Sun and its CEO Scott McNealy for potentially misleading developers into thinking Sun’s latest open source contribution is free of any legal land mines. In an open letter […]

Apple Computer released its first security patch of 2005 this week in order to plug some holes in its Mac OS X operating system. Security Update 2005-001 for Mac OS X addresses issues with Apple’s “at” commands, library (libxml2), ColorSync, Safari and Mail programs as well as specific problems found in PHP and third-party supplied […]

Rambus fired off a new round of patent infringement claims against its rivals in defense of its DDR2 memory technology and GDDR2 and GDDR3 graphics technology. The patents in question were issued between January 2001 and October 2004. Hynix Semiconductor, Infineon Technologies , Inotera Memories and Nanya Technology were named in the suit filed this […]

Intel is suing a Chinese company for allegedly copying software used in communications cards, the company said this week. The chipmaking giant filed its suit in Shenzhen Intermediary Peoples Court accusing Dongjin Technology of infringing on Intel’s Inter Dialogic System Release 5.1.1 software (SR5.1.1), specifically in the header files which contain transparent information about the […]

Reaction to Sun Microsystems’ launch of its OpenSolaris initiative is apparently related to the size of the enterprise and its attachment to the open source community. In some cases, the larger the company — and its investment in Linux — the more vocally opposed it is to Sun’s liberation of Solaris source code and the […]