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  • Sun releases StarOffice 9

    Support for Mac OS X and improved document format support are some of the improvements in Sun Microsystems' StarOffice 9, which was released on Monday.

  • Solaris partnership

    A mainframe version of the OpenSolaris operating system is now available for download, IBM and Sun have announced.

  • Sun posts loss, cites Wall St woes

    Sun Microsystems reported a US$1.68 billion (NZ$2.84 billion) loss for its most recent fiscal quarter yesterday, but most of that was from a goodwill impairment charge.

  • Sun warns of revenue drop, big loss

    Sun Microsystems on Monday warned of a big loss for the first quarter of its 2009 fiscal year, issuing preliminary results that also showed revenue falling.

  • Sun gets new ANZ head

    Sun Microsystems has appointed Duncan Bennet to the role of vice president and managing director for Australia and New Zealand (ANZ).
    Bennet has taken up the permanent position after a three-month acting period.

  • Sun to set up datacentre in coal mine

    Sun Microsystems and a consortium of other organisations are going to lower an enclosed self-contained datacentre into a Japanese coal mine. The goal is to set up an underground datacentre, using up to 50% less power than a ground-level one.

  • Sun to buy Vaau

    Sun Microsystems plans to buy Vaau, vendor of ERM (enterprise role management) and identity compliance software.

  • IBM retains supercomputing supremo title

    Sun is aiming to wrest the world supercomputing crown from IBM’s Blue Gene with a US$59 million (NZ$69 million) contract from the University of Texas for its Constellation design.

  • Sun's Rock rolls further towards release

    Sun Microsystems has taken another step in the development of its 16-core Rock microprocessor after successfully booting up its own Solaris 10 operating system on a computer with Rock installed.

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