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September 26, 2011  1:46 PM

Oracle to announce Sparc T4 SuperCluster Monday



Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Oracle server hardware, Oracle Sparc, Oracle Sun, SuperCluster

Oracle will announce a new Sparc T4-based SuperCluster on Monday in an effort to fight for share of the multibillion-dollar Unix server market. The SuperCluster T4-4, as it is called, will run Solaris on top of the new Sparc T4 processor. The T4 is a 40-nanometer, eight-core CPU that is expected...

August 30, 2011  6:51 PM

Feds helped Oracle complete Sun acquisition



Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Oracle Sun

Wikileaks published a document last week revealing that the U.S. government assisted Oracle with the Sun acquisition, mainly by approving it themselves and then pressuring the European Union to do the same. The 2009 document is a cable from Christopher W. Murray, who was then deputy chief of the...


January 7, 2011  7:51 PM

Former Sun employees who have moved on from Oracle



Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Oracle Sun

Former Sun engineer Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart has put together a large list of Sun employees who have left Oracle for other companies. It includes more than 100 people who have moved onto companies like VMware, Accenture,...


November 18, 2010  5:02 PM

Oracle’s current legal troubles extend beyond Oracle vs. SAP trial



Posted by: Shayna Garlick
Oracle hardware, Oracle Sun, Sun Microsystems

Oracle is currently going head to head with SAP in the courtroom over its competitor's alleged intellectual property theft.  And while the high-profile case may be nearing a long-awaited...


November 17, 2010  4:04 PM

Big upcoming support switch for Sun customers



Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
My Oracle Support, Oracle Sun

Sun Microsystems support customers are on a verge of a big switch to My Oracle Support next month. The support migration will take place Dec. 10-12, and will include retiring Sun support Web tools such as SunSolve, Member Support Center...


July 27, 2010  2:48 PM

DTrace creator follows in footsteps of Phipps, Gosling with Oracle exit



Posted by: Shayna Garlick
Oracle acquisitions, Oracle and Java, Oracle open source, Oracle Sun, Oracle Sun Solaris


June 9, 2010  2:23 PM

Sun Microsystems: Oracle’s biggest science experiment?



Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Exadata Database Machine 2, Oracle Sun

Eric Guyer with Forsythe Solutions Group writes about Oracle's biggest science experiment to date -- the acquisition of Sun Microsystems. And he doesn’t consider that to be a good thing for Oracle. “First of all,...


May 25, 2010  1:10 PM

Red Hat: Oracle isn’t an open source company



Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Oracle open source, Oracle Sun

[caption id="attachment_915" align="alignright" width="140" caption="Paul Cormier (photo courtesy of Red Hat)"]

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