Andy Patrizio

Sun was quick to deny published reports Wednesday that it plans to open source Java in the next few months. The company is working on the project, but any transition to open source is closer to a year away. Simon Phipps, chief open-source officer for Sun (Quote, Chart), made a comment he said was misconstrued […]

Windows Server and Linux are growing up fast, but they still aren’t a match for the solid, stable Unix systems on the high-end of the server scale. That’s the conclusion of a report from The Yankee Group, which released it 2006 Global Server Reliability Survey on Wednesday. The report compared a number of server operating […]

Even though he was adamantly against any layoffs, Sun Microsystems’s new CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced today the company plans a net reduction in headcount of between 4,000 to 5,000 positions. That would be an 11 to 13 percent reduction in the company’s worldwide headcount of 37,500. The cuts would come in what he dubbed “non-core” […]

It looks like some heads will roll at Sun Microsystems after all, despite repeated promisesfrom new CEO Jonathan Schwartz that cuts would not happen. The question now is how severe it will be. The news came during a “fireside chat”-style discussion at the JPMorgan technology conference with Sun’s (Quote, Chart) new CFO Michael Lehman, who […]

Just what we needed, another technology limitation about to put the squeeze on everyone. And we don’t mean the Unix date bug. The growing popularity of smartphones and other gadgets with Internet connectivity is sucking up all of the available IP addresses, and it’s beginning to impede emerging Internet markets around the world. Cyberspace has […]

IT research firm Gartner Group is predicting Microsoft will need several more months to test Windows Vista before it’s ready to be released. However, the formulation for that prediction is based on Microsoft’s past missteps, not specific problems in the ambitious and long-delayed operating system. In a report titled Windows Vista Unlikely to Ship Before […]

Assuming you’re safe from viruses and other malware just because you are on a non-Windows platform is a big mistake, as the number of Linux-based malware doubled in 2005, and Mac OS X is next to get hit, according to a report from Kaspersky Labs. In a report titled “2005: *nix Malware Evolution,” the Russian […]

Analysis: Sun Microsystems is full of great-sounding ideas and technology. Open source hardware and software, multi-core servers and blistering attacks on the competition are but a few the company’s trotted out the past year. So far, it hasn’t worked. Revenue is up but Sun’s losses are mounting. What’s the new CEO, Jonathan “The Ponytail” Schwartz […]

It looks like Microsoft is getting users of its operating systems coming and going. Microsoft’s next generation Vista OS may prove too much for older computers, but the company has announced it will no longer support the Windows 9x code base as of later this summer. Luddites who want to stick with Windows 98/SE/ME will […]