Recently Sun Microsystems released to its developers more code containing its 'Project Look Glass" technology. Project Looking Glass will offer users a 3D Desktop. Sun is hoping that this technology will give users... More...

Sun Microsystems has focused a lot of attention on its newly open-sourced Looking Glass three-dimensional user interface here at the JavaOne Conference. But a pair of technologies that Sun quietly released as open source last... More...

Sun Microsystems is giving away free Opteron-based Sun workstations to Java developers. The catch is you have to sign on for a three-year subscription to Sun Java Studio Enterprise. For serious Java developers... More...

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Thursday will use the Desktop Linux Summit in San Diego to announce that the second version of its Java Desktop System will be generally available in the first week of May.... More...

Sun Microsystems Inc. is hard at work on providing an end-to-end radio frequency identification (RFID) solution for major retailers like Wal-Mart and its suppliers. Juan Carlos Soto, the director of advanced development in... More...

Sun Microsystems is about to begin a beta program for perhaps its most important development tool release in years. Java Studio Creator -- formerly Project Rave -- is Sun's attempt at corralling departmental-level developers who... More...

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Wednesday will announce a partnership with Electronic Data Systems Corp., in which the Plano, Texas, IT outsourcing firm will provide migration services, training, help-desk and call center desktop services for Sun's... More...

Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems Inc.'s executive vice president of software, took time after his quarterly Town Hall in San Francisco to sit down with eWEEK Contributing Editor Steve Gillmor in a conversation about Microsoft Corp.'s... More...

Sun is set to release a free version of its Java application server, as part of a drive to encourage users to move away from Microsoft. Sun Microsystems will release a free version of its... More...

With this week's launch of Project Orion, Sun CEO Scott McNealy is calling for nothing short of anthropologic change in how organizations deploy and pay for IT systems. At the heart of Sun strategy is... More...

Sun Microsystems Inc.'s chief software engineer took the LinuxWorld stage here today to show off "Mad Hatter," the company's upcoming unified desktop, which he said the company will sell for half the price of a... More...

Although Sun Microsystems Inc. discontinued sales several months ago of its customized Linux distribution, the company hasn't entirely abandoned its do-it-yourself Linux strategy: In its forthcoming bundle of desktop software, code-named Mad Hatter, the included... More...

DELL and Hewlett-Packard have agreed to load Sun Microsystems' version of Java on their new PCs. It's a significant boost to Java, which Sun developed as an environment that can run programs... More...

Two high-end chip models from Sun Microsystems look likely to debut later than expected, putting a wrinkle in the server maker's ambitious plan to revamp its processor lines. David Yen, executive vice president... More...

A U.S. District Judge. J. Frederick Motz, has ordered microsoft to reintegrate sun's Java programming language back into the windows operating system. The ruling in sun's private anti-trust case is seen as a decisive victory... More...

IT'S A WHILE since we did a comparison between memory provided for servers by tin manufacturers themselves, compared to the price you can get it for if you hunt around a bit. And... More...

Sun Microsystems expects to release the next major upgrade to its UltraSPARC line of processors before the middle of next year, according to company documents. Sun plans to launch its UltraSPARC IV processor... More...

Steve Ballmer, speaking to an industry group, dismissed rival Sun's efforts to compete with his company's Passport identity service as "craziness" built on a "weak foundation" on Wednesday. "I think what we... More...