Ashlee Vance

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‘Secret Six’ have Sun rethinking Solaris on Intel

Sun Microsystems Inc. this week revealed that user feedback has led the company to reconsider its decision to halt development of a version of the Solaris operating system for Intel Corp.'s 32-bit chip architecture.

Sun Microsystems revealed user feedback has led the company to reconsider its decision to halt development of a version of the Solaris operating system for Intel

Intel adds to its mobile product arsenal

Intel announced two sets of new chip technologies on April 17, hoping to keep up with the ever-present push to pack more processing power into less space.

Vendors deliver new gear for networked storage

Storage stalwarts and startups alike gathered last week in Palm Desert, Calif., to show their latest advances with networked storage gear, during the Storage Networking World conference.

HP links servers and storage with appliance

Hewlett-Packard Co. announced a new appliance Monday for managing data sharing and back-up tasks across groups of servers and storage systems

Sun lends hand to open-source Java

Sun Microsystems Inc. answered a long-standing call from open-source software developers Tuesday, saying Java fans will be able to submit some changes for the platform under open-source licenses and receive financial support from Sun for their projects.

Canesta lets computers

A small Silicon Valley start-up has embarked on an almost mythological effort to give computers the gift of sight.

Research group deals Oracle pricing another blow

A leading research company Tuesday issued a report criticizing Oracle Corp.'s database pricing methods, becoming the second industry watcher in as many weeks to take Oracle to task over pricing issues.

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