597 blog results for "Sun Microsoft"

Goldman Sachs' latest IT spending survey suggests a return to growth with a few big vendors aiming to get even bigger.

Posted in Software, Interrupted by Dave Rosenberg

In the history of tech, some decisions stand out as truly awful. This week, Rafe Needleman, Charlie Cooper, and Jim Kerstetter go over some of the worst ever.

Posted in Reporters' Roundtable Podcast by Rafe Needleman

Microsoft is now offering support for MySQL, which should give pause to every open-source company that expects to make money through support subscriptions.

Posted in The Open Road by Matt Asay

The newest versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, and other browsers all protect against phishing and malware attacks, and most also let you browse anonymously, though they implement these features in very different ways.

Posted in Workers' Edge by Dennis O'Reilly

By showing its first glimpses of technology in Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft also is showing it's serious about building a competitive browser.

Posted in Deep Tech by Stephen Shankland

At the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft talks about Office 2010, shows Silverlight 4, and shares the first details on Internet Explorer 9.

Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried

SAP apparently doesn't understand the irony of a proprietary software company demanding that complements like Java be open.

Posted in The Open Road by Matt Asay

European regulators have formally objected to Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Oracle vows to fight the conclusion.

Posted in Deep Tech by Stephen Shankland

VMware View 4 is most focused on improving user experience, one of the things that has limited the appeal of desktop virtualization in the past.

Posted in The Pervasive Data Center by Gordon Haff

Amazon.com's fork of the MySQL database suggests that competition is alive and well, regardless of Oracle's desire to buy Sun or of the European Commission.

Posted in The Open Road by Matt Asay