Org is filling up a 24-terabyte Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: JAVA - news - people ) server with case law going back to 1754. (That's a lot of bytes, enough to type out 12 million novels.) Malamud bought some data from Fastcase while building his service, which is available for free on the Web.
Upstarts have begun using a version of Linux--the freeware that hurt profits at Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard--for their Cisco-killer products.
As for services, a new generation of easy-connection software like Sun Microsystems Jini might wipe out low- end systems integrators in a blink.
The six big producers of network servers -- IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Compaq, Sun Microsystems, Digital and Dell -- have caught on to the advantages, and Quantum is struggling to meet their demand.
Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ), Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ), Red Hat (nasdaq: RHAT - news - people ) and scores of other firms sell Linux-based computers.
The chip had the support of computer makers, including Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ), IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ), Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ) and Fujitsu-Siemens .
Rather, the collective ingenuity of people such as Andy Bechtolsheim (co-founder of Sun Microsystems and subsequently Granite Systems) and Judy Estrin (a serial entrepreneur in the packet-switching business) was crucial to drive the technology through the standards bodies.
Granted admission to Stanford's business school, he met Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla and went on to head Sun for 22 years.
Now Cisco is showcasing Lew Tucker, a well-known veteran of developer work at both Salesforce and the pre-Oracle Sun Microsystems, who came on as cloud CTO in the middle of this year.
Khosla Ventures run by uber venture capitalist and Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla, the Founders Fund from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and Innovation Endeavors from former Google CEO Eric Schmidt contributed to the round.
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Org is filling up a 24-terabyte Sun Microsystems server with case law going back to 1754. (That's a lot of bytes, enough to type out 12 million novels.) Malamud bought some data from Fastcase while building his service, which is available for free on the Web.
Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard's acquisition of services firm eds are two examples of this trend.
There are more than 400, 000 aging VMS minicomputers worldwide, comprising a fat target for IBM, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard.
There are more than 400, 000 aging VMS minicomputers worldwide, making a fat target for IBM, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard.
Each year 36 teenagers learn cutting-edge business skills and earn money working on projects for real clients including Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems.
IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems have been pitching their efforts for months.
My first entree to the financial community was at Salomon Brothers following the Enterprise Server Hardware companies such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems.
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While Compaq, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems were adding features and processing power to their pricey servers, RLX would steal the low end of the market.
This one comes from Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems.
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Brownell left his cushy job as chief technology officer at Goldman Sachs to launch a startup that sells costly, hard-to-explain computers in direct competition with IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems.
The spreading of the cloud darkens the outlook for traditional hardware makers such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems, which have already been buffeted by fears of a U.S. recession.
As a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, former partner at Kleiner Perkins, and founder at Khosla Ventures, Khosla shared some of his insights into how successful startups should approach their work.
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For larger warehouses the competition comes from Oracle's 9i database and IBM's DB2, and these have the advantage of running on machines from IBM, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard that are familiar to big businesses.
By teaming up with its Silicon Valley neighbours, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard, two of the biggest makers of powerful Unix servers, Oracle's new data centres are able to supply the gamut of hardware and services.
Sun Microsystems' write-once-run-anywhere programming language is expected to grow from an installed base of 3.8 million digital cable boxes in 1998 to 12 million boxes by year 2001, according to International Data Corp. (IDC), a Framingham, Mass.
Both Hewlett-Packard 's (nyse: HPQ - news - people ) Utility Data Center model and Sun Microsystems ' (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ) N1 approach stress filling computers with the heaviest possible workloads--a change from the standard model of buying new servers when they run at 30% of capacity, for fear of hitting the occasional spike in activity.
Oracle, the database-software behemoth, is buying Sun Microsystems, which sells big computers as well as software ranging from Java tools to open-source databases.
High-tech companies like Sun Microsystems Inc. and 3Com Corp. are also constantly running marketing campaigns aimed at their thousands of corporate customers and independent distributors.
After the 2007 decision by Sun Microsystems for a one-to-four reverse split, shares ended up losing 80% of their value in following year before eventually being acquired by Oracle ( ORCL).
Linux has so far gleaned the support of major corporations such as IBM, Sun Microsystems, and Hewlett-Packard for use in servers and is now gaining some popularity in the desktop market.
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