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InternetNews
January 16, 2008
Sean Michael Kerner |
Sun to Nab MySQL For $1 Billion In a surprise move, Sun Microsystems today said it's acquiring privately held open source database vendor MySQL AB for approximately $1 billion.   |
InternetNews
February 9, 2009
Sean Michael Kerner |
Why MySQL's Exec Exits May Not Burn Sun A pair of high-profile executive departures could cause trouble for Sun's $1 billion database play. Then again, they might not. |
InternetNews
January 17, 2008
Sean Michael Kerner |
Open Source Groups Upbeat, Cautious on Sun-MySQL While most of the open source community lauds the $1 billion purchase and its implications for LAMP, the "P" in that acronym expresses some concerns. |
InternetNews
April 21, 2009
Sean Michael Kerner |
MySQL 5.4 Released as Oracle Looms Large New MySQL chief calls for more transparency with the community and is optimistic about opportunities within Oracle. |
InternetNews
October 18, 2010 |
Open Source MySQL Space Heats Up With SkySQL Startup that includes many former MySQL executives is looking to provide an open source set of support tools for the database effort, without extending into a rival distribution. |
The Motley Fool
September 15, 2009
Anders Bylund |
Oracle's Gift to Growth Investors Oracle must lose some dead weight before closing the Sun deal. |
InternetNews
December 15, 2010 |
Oracle Unveils MySQL 5.5 Oracle moves to put to rest uncertainty about the future of the open source database with the release of MySQL 5.5, reiterating commitment to strengthening the community. |
The Motley Fool
October 31, 2008
Anders Bylund |
Meet the New Sun, Better Than the Old Sun Sun Microsystems ain't what it used to be. The new Sun relies on virtualization-friendly blade servers, storage arrays, and open-source software. And that's a good thing. |
InternetNews
December 4, 2008
Paul Rubens |
What Will Become of Sun Microsystems? Whether Sun rises on its own or another OEM comes to its rescue, the future isn't looking so bright for the former Silicon Valley giant. |
InternetNews
December 22, 2009
Sean Michael Kerner |
MySQL 5.5 Speeds Release of New Features Don't worry about waiting around for MySQL 6, you don't have to anymore. |
InternetNews
March 25, 2009
Owen Linderholm |
Sun Sees the Cloud as Its Chance to Shine Jonathan Schwartz says Sun's in great position to take advantage of burgeoning interest in cloud computing - and avoids hints on IBM. |
The Motley Fool
July 26, 2005
Melanie Hollands |
Sun Still Setting Sun's deal with StorageTek isn't the savior that the company and some investors may think. |
InternetNews
October 18, 2006
Sean Michael Kerner |
MySQL Gives DBAs an Enterprise Nod Open source database vendor MySQL offers news solution to monitor and maintain databases. |
InternetNews
May 31, 2006
Andy Patrizio |
Big Cuts at Sun, Up to 5,000 Layoffs Despite earlier promises, new CEO Jonathan Schwartz will lop off 11-13 percent of Sun's workforce. |
InternetNews
January 27, 2010 |
Developer Worries About MySQL's Future Oracle said it will continue developing MySQL as free software for the next five years, but the application's lead developer isn't convinced his open source baby will survive much longer. |
The Motley Fool
January 16, 2008
Anders Bylund |
The Sun Sets on MySQL Platform specialist Sun Microsystems ponied up $1 billion in cash and assumed options to buy privately held MySQL AB, taking its first step into the database sector. |
InternetNews
October 9, 2009 |
MySQL Founder Calls on EC to Clear Oracle/Sun Marten Mickos writes European Commission head Neelie Kroes, saying the Oracle/Sun deal won't hurt MySQL. Will they listen? |
InternetNews
March 31, 2004
Michael Singer |
Sun Forecasts 'System' Commoditization VP Jonathan Schwartz points to free hardware (and for that matter, software) in exchange for some juicy recurring service contracts. |
InternetNews
June 29, 2005
Clint Boulton |
Sun Looks Beyond The SOA Here And Now Sun Microsystems officials made a great effort to convince skeptics how its offer to acquire SeeBeyond isn't a hole filler but rather an extension of Sun's evolving strategy to reap more revenues from software. |
InternetNews
April 5, 2004
Michael Singer |
New Software Head in Sun Management Shift On the heels of announcing a major restructuring, Sun continues shifting senior management. |
InternetNews
April 13, 2010 |
Oracle Taps InnoDB for MySQL Plans Oracle has released the beta version of MySQL 5.5 and announced that InnoDB will become the default storage engine. |
InternetNews
November 19, 2008
Sean Michael Kerner |
Sun Expands MySQL With Closed Source MySQL Enterprise gets new Query Tool - but it'll cost you if you want it. |
InternetNews
March 23, 2010 |
Rackspace Taps Open Source Drizzle Team Cloud-computing and hosting firm Rackspace has been enlisting top talent from open source Drizzle database effort to scale beyond MySQL's capabilities. |
InternetNews
January 24, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
Schwartz's Sun Rising Eight months into Schwartz's stewardship, Sun's turnaround is gaining heat. |
InternetNews
May 16, 2006
Andy Patrizio |
Open Source Still Bedevils Sun Execs While Sun is answering the call to open its popular language, it's also clear the company will do it on its own terms and won't be dictated to by the community. |
InternetNews
December 9, 2008
Sean Michael Kerner |
MySQL 5.1 Takes Off Despite Controversy Sun claims over a quarter million downloads in first days of release; downplays criticism. |
InternetNews
May 15, 2006
Clint Boulton |
Sun Picks New Server, Storage Chiefs John Fowler will run Sun's entire server portfolio, with David Yen taking the storage helm. |
InternetNews
April 22, 2009
Sean Michael Kerner |
Sun Expands MySQL Identity Sun announces new open source identity federation capabilities with openSSO, as well as integrated MySQL capabilities for identity management. |
JavaWorld
June 11, 2003
Robert McMillan |
Sun strives to unite J2ME space New programs aimed at simplifying mobile development |
The Motley Fool
July 28, 2005
Tom Taulli |
Is Sun Getting Eclipsed? Maybe the best strategy for Sun is just to give money back to its shareholders. |
InternetNews
June 2, 2005
Clint Boulton |
Sun to Buy StorageTek Sun Microsystems took great steps to fortify its information lifecycle management strategy by agreeing to acquire Storage Technology for $4.1 billion in cash. |
The Motley Fool
December 16, 2009
Anders Bylund |
Oracle's Pyrrhic Victory? Oracle is navigating its way through European regulations. But what's the point? |
Insurance & Technology
May 15, 2009
Anthony O'Donnell |
Implications of Oracle/Sun Slight for Insurance in the Short Term Oracle's bid to acquire Sun is groundbreaking from a general technology point of view, but its meaning for the insurance industry is likely to manifest itself over a longer timeframe as the vendor's strategy evolves. |
CIO
May 25, 2011
Chris Kanaracus |
Five Things You Need to Know About MySQL MySQL may already be in your enterprise. Here are the basics on the open-source database. |
InternetNews
October 12, 2009 |
Oracle's $10M Database Server Challenge On the eve of Oracle OpenWorld, the Sun bosses try to convince the audience that they and the EC have nothing to worry about. |
InternetNews
November 17, 2008
Andy Patrizio |
What's Next for Sun? Can Sun cut its way to profitability and prominence, or is it just looking for a graceful exit - and friendly buyer - at this point. |
The Motley Fool
November 11, 2009
Tim Beyers |
Why Oracle Must Fight Europe Evidence suggests that MySQL today is worth materially more than what Sun paid for it. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has no choice but to fight for fair value, and that means fighting the European Commission's ruling. |
The Motley Fool
August 24, 2007
Tim Beyers |
Sun Seeks a Java Jolt Sun Microsystems is changing its ticker from SUNW to JAVA. Does a new ticker presage a new business model? |
InternetNews
October 25, 2007
David Needle |
Sun Countersues NetApp in Patent Brouhaha The battle over Sun's ZFS file system technology is heating up with more lawsuits. |
InternetNews
September 13, 2006
Clint Boulton |
Sun, Accenture Sew Up SOA Deal Sun Microsystems today said it has inked a deal with consulting giant Accenture IBM to work on secure service-oriented architectures for their joint customers. |
BusinessWeek
October 2, 2006
Steve Hamm |
Sun: Out From Behind The Clouds Sun's new CEO Jonathan I. Schwartz is drawing raves for the company's growth spurt, but can it last? |
InternetNews
April 24, 2006
Andy Patrizio |
Exit McNealy: New Era For Sun? Sun Microsystems veteran Jonathan Schwartz is set to takes the reins after Scott McNealy announces he's stepping down as CEO. |
InternetNews
May 2, 2006
Clint Boulton |
Green Heading Back to Sun Rich Green goes back to Sun after a two-year stint at virtualization software specialist Cassatt. |
InternetNews
August 8, 2007
Paul Shread |
Sun Puts 'Thumper' To Work Sun's first storage product based on the "Thumper" data server is a mid-range virtual tape library. |
InternetNews
April 20, 2009
Alex Goldman |
Oracle Buys Sun in IBM's Wake Oracle reveals a few details of its strategic vision for the merger with Sun. |
InternetNews
March 25, 2008
Sean Michael Kerner |
IBM Takes Stake in Open Source Database Vendor EnterpriseDB raises capital from IBM as new releases of its PostgreSQL database debut. |
InternetNews
November 4, 2009 |
EC May Block Oracle/Sun Merger Numerous reports have indicated that Oracle is expecting a formal objection from the European Commission on Competition to its planned $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems, inviting the possibility that the European Union could derail the merger. |
InternetNews
January 23, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
Profitable Again, Sun Looks Forward What will Sun do with an extra $700 million? |
InternetNews
January 24, 2008
Andy Patrizio |
Sun Tops Estimates in Second Quarter Total sales for Sun Microsystems came in slightly higher than expected and profits almost doubled from the year-ago quarter. |
The Motley Fool
September 3, 2009
Tim Beyers |
Europe to Larry Ellison: It's On, Maybe EU regulators open an antitrust investigation of Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems. |
