Sun Microsystems —
Tim Bray, of Sun Microsystems, has an interesting post on his blog, discussing in public his views on what he believes the future direction of his employer should be. While I think some parts of what Tim suggests in his post have merit, overall, my opinion is his analysis and conclusions are totally wide of [...]
Sun Microsystems could be in trouble. Not in terms of its products, which are great; but because of its share price. One of the problems with public equity markets is that they almost never get the value of technology companies right. The share prices of such companies spend most of their time either significantly above [...]
It looks as if Sun will be releasing the first technology preview of the all-new JavaFX SDK in about two weeks – that is, at the end of the month. That includes: a new language (JavaFX Script); a new compiler; a new underlying Java hardware-accelerated 2-D and 3-D graphics stack; (hopefully) new audio and video [...]
Sun Microsystems inc is now in real trouble – the company’s stock price continues to move downward at a seemingly ever-increasing rate. It’s a shame – the company has amazing assets that, in the long term, could generate massive share holder value. The company also has, thanks to CEO Jonathan Schwartz, a fabulous long-term strategy. [...]
Sun Microsystems inc., going from strength to strength? No, I’m not crazy! I’ve seen the share price! Despite that, though, I think Sun Microsystems inc., is actually becoming fundamentally stronger, as it fills out gaps in its hardware line (from high-end to low-end); and steps ever nearer to the completion of its software stack (data [...]
Update 14 May: Sun has updated their on-line info (see below), and Jonathan Schwartz in his blog has stated that JavaFX will be open sourced under the GPL v2 licence.
I’ve been aware of JavaFX, Sun’s new Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform, since it was first announced a year ago at JavaOne 2007 (and before that, [...]
Today, we’ve had the first glimpse into Sun’s future plans for cloud computing, which will be based around the brand new OpenSolaris OS (just released today, after being in preview for some time). You may, or may not, know that Sun already has a cloud computing offering, called Network.com. So far, this has been focused [...]