Michael Singer

SAN FRANCISCO — Sun Microsystems says it is on the right track supporting the free and open source software (FOSS) movement. During his keynote at the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) here, company president and COO Jonathan Schwartz gave his best pitch to open source supporters, members of the business development community and venture capitalists […]

NEC and Sun Microsystems are taking their relationship to a higher level thanks to a new hardware/software pact. The two companies said the partnerhsip is an expansion of their five-year-old partnership for high-end systems, joint systems integration, securing voice and data, and better collaboration for the development of middleware software. The pact will center on […]

Five men handpicked by their peers will now help steer the fate of the open source version of the Solaris operating system. Casper Dik, Roy Fielding, Al Hopper, Simon Phipps, and Rich Teer were announced as the charter members of the newly formed OpenSolaris Community Advisory Board (CAB). Sun Microsystems founded the board to serve […]

If your enterprise relies on PDAs and smartphones to get business done, you may be paying too much to secure it, according to a report issued Monday. An analyst at IT research firm Burton Group found that the cost of a complete set of security products (antivirus, VPN, device security and management) can be higher […]

Adobe released details of its upcoming publishing platform, which it is positioning as a one-stop community for designers and publishers. The new Creative Suite 2 (CS2) is not expected until next month, even though details of the announcement accidentally made their way onto Adobe’s Web site last week. The upgrade is Adobe’s latest upgrade against […]

One year after Microsoft and Sun Microsystems buried the hatchet, the two are closer to achieving Web services and networking interoperability. On April 2, 2004, the two bitter rivals ended their dispute by swapping handshakes and Hockey jerseys. Headlines joked that hell had frozen over, because of the stubborn and outspoken nature of the two […]

Jeff Pulver is fascinated with Texas Hold’em but he’ll be the first one to tell you he has the world’s worst poker face. But that doesn’t bother this 43-year-old ham radio enthusiast who has placed his biggest bet on Voice over IP . After years of building his reputation, Pulver is now best known for […]

Intel said it will immediately change the way it does business in Japan as part of its punishment for alleged anticompetitive behavior. Earlier this month, Japan’s Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) found Intel had engaged in market activities to keep the competition out. Intel was accused of giving rebates and tapping into other finances like its […]

Transmeta announced sweeping changes to the company’s business model along with a top executive change to support it. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based firm said it will now primarily be known as a technology and intellectual property licensing company with special engineering services also available. Transmeta said it has scaled back its chipmaking portfolio to include […]

Intel has asked to have its name removed from a list of open source licenses promoted by the Open Source Initiative (OSI). The move has some members of the open source community smiling. In an e-mail to the OSI this week, McCoy Smith, senior intellectual property attorney at Intel, asked to have the “Intel Open […]

The Chinese company poised to take over IBM’s legendary PC business has received investments from three U.S. equity firms. Texas Pacific Group (“TPG”), General Atlantic (“GA”) and Newbridge Capital (“Newbridge”) are giving Lenovo Group a combined amount of $350 million as a strategic investment for its acquisition of IBM’s PC business, executives at Lenovo said […]

AMD is approaching various software providers to help support the addition of virtualization software in its future 64-bit processors. The company began educating various ISVs and those in the analyst community today about its technology, known as Pacifica. The company is scheduled to brief hardware reviewers Thursday. To increase its chances of wider adoption in […]