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- An argument about switching costs
- When someone signing himself as "Dr. Dog" attacked the Sun Ray desktop solution recently he made the three most common mistakes - confusing applications with applications delivery, invoking the sunk cost fallacy, and valuing IT risk over business risk. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Information Technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, Desktops, Strategy, Hardware, Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
- The key thing differentiating the appliance computing community from the data processing one was its absolute focus on making the money, instead of on counting monies magically made by somebody else, somewhere else. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Data Center, Environment, Sun Microsystems Inc., Computer, Appliance Computing, Data Centers, Mainframes, Productivity, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-08-22
- Nokia and Sun confirm S40, J2ME vulnerabilities
- Nokia and Sun confirm S40, J2ME vulnerabilitiesSensationalisticThis is attention grabbing. Sun did not claim that J2ME has serious vulnerabilities.When I drill down I found it is only the Nokia stack and only old version of J2ME and very difficult to exploit.If you say these things in the headlines, nobody will...
- Tags: Java, J2ME, Nokia Corp., S40, vulnerability, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-21
- Nokia and Sun confirm S40, Java ME vulnerabilities
- According to published reports, Nokia and Sun have both confirmed the existence of serious security problems in the Series 40 and Java Platform Micro Edition Java ME , giving instant credibility to the claims by Polish hacker Adam Gowdiak. Gowdiak left, one of the four LSD researchers...
- Tags: Nokia Corp., J2ME, Sun Microsystems Inc., Vulnerability, Java, Security, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Sun release claims Sun Ray shipments nearly double
- Sun release claims Sun Ray shipments nearly doubleTypos in original?Usually PR statements have been carefully reviewed by enough people to assure that misspellings and missing letters have been caught.Is this another example of Sun presenting itself to the public haphazardly?Not conceivableQuoting:It's conceivable that Sun could have shipped only three Sun...
- Tags: Operational accounting, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, revenue
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Sun release claims Sun Ray shipments nearly double
- Sun just issued a press release claiming that its shipments of Sun Ray "thin client" systems nearly doubled. The most exciting part of the announcement was that the document was sent not as a text message, not as an HTML formatted document, but as a Sun Staroffice document. I'm sure...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, Sun Ray Unit Shipment, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Thin Clients, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Security researcher demands money from Sun, Nokia
- Security researcher demands money from Sun, NokiaReceive compensation or what?Sell it to the highest bidder? That aside it strikes me like he is demanding ransom on account of the undercurrents I sense and the possibility of malice being an end product if Sun and Nokia were not to "pay up".-M
- Tags: Nokia Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., security
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- Security researcher demands money from Sun, Nokia
- A researcher claims to have found multiple flaws in mobile Java and Nokia Series 40 handsets, and wants Sun or Nokia to pay him almost $30,000 for the details. A Polish security researcher has claimed to have found multiple flaws in mobile Java, but is demanding €20,000 ($29,790) in...
- Tags: Researcher, Nokia Corp., Mobile, Java, Sun Microsystems Inc., Research Paper, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, security, malware, antivirus, code, flaws, Nokia, Sun Microsystems
- News items 2008-08-14
- Development environments: Microsoft vs. Open Source
- Risks, real and perceived, are key drivers in the open source versus proprietary decision - and boil down to this: making an open source decision for mission critical software is also a decision to develop at least some in-house expertise with respect to the application's internals. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Hiring, Wintel, Data Center, Open Source, Information Technology, Environment, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Sun Ray, Development Environment, Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Help Desk, UNIX, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, It Operations, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- It's not good for everything, therefore it's not good for anything
- It's not good for everything, therefore it's not good for anythingScientific vs. Data Processing: Did you just switch sides?Even in a research institute, most of the people will use boring finance and word processing applications that are well supported on all the major computing platforms. On the other hand, niches...
- Tags: INTERNET, Desktops, Operating systems, nich, Sun Ray, mission critical, institute, PC, Sun Microsystems Inc., research institute
- Discussion threads 2008-08-06
- It's not good for everything, therefore it's not good for anything
- A lot of the wintel vs Unix argument is cast in terms of this hardware or that feature but the reality is that risk and compliance, not functionality or direct cost, are the critical decision drivers both right now and for the immediate future. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Security, Comcast Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Downtime, Sun Ray, Argument, Telecommuting, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Servers, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Sun's fourth quarter solid; Growth in fiscal 2009 remains elusive
- Sun Microsystems on Friday reported fiscal fourth quarter net income of $88 million, or 11 cents a share, on revenue of $3.78 billion, down 1.4 percent from a year ago. Adjusted earnings in the quarter were $275 million, or 35 cents a share. However, Sun sees another tough year ahead....
- Tags: U.S., Revenue, Michael Lehman, Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz, Sales Strategy, Operational Accounting, Open Source, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- How to Create Translucent and Shaped Windows
- JavaFX Script is a capable new language that offers a set of APIs for creating RIAs. It also provides the user with access to the rich features of the standard Java language. One of the major features introduced in the Java SE 6u10 release is the ability to create translucent...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Window, Microsoft Windows, JavaFX Script, Construction, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2008-08-01
- JavaFX SDK preview launches: Can Sun play the RIA game?
- JavaFX SDK preview launches: Can Sun play the RIA game?They should start in their backyardI think it would be a success if it ends up with more responsive java enterprise apps. Which would help retention of developers. Eterprise java apps are the worst, they gave java a bad...
- Tags: Programming languages, JavaFX SDK, JavaFX, Java, Sun Microsystems Inc., rich Internet application, SDK, game
- Discussion threads 2008-07-31
- Considering a Windows Innovation Demo
- When reporters accept an obviously phony demo of ideas from the 1970s as proof of Microsoft's commitment to innovation it's time to wonder just how clued in any of the people involved really are. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Innovation, Processor, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Computer, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
- JavaFX SDK preview launches: Can Sun play the RIA game?
- Sun Microsystems on Thursday will launch the JavaFX preview release as it aims to round up its bevy of Java developers to be a player in rich Internet applications. The preview release gives designers, web scripters and developers a peek at Sun's tools to make RIAs across...
- Tags: Game, Adobe Systems Inc., Java, Sun Microsystems Inc., Rich Internet Application, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- The more things change
- Linux and Windows have an unexpected commonality: development in both groups is constrained by the relative lack of change in Intel's x86 products - relative, that is, to hardware progress being made in the PPC, SPARC, and IBM/Cell communities where things like transactional memory, hardware scout, and parallel ultra-high...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, Linux, Thin Clients, Ethernet, Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Operating Systems, Processors, Software, Hardware, Networking, Semiconductors, Components, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- JavaFX Preview SDK to be released this week
- Sun will release a preview version of the JavaFX Software Development Kit later this week, fulfilling a pledge made at JavaOne this year. Joshua Marinacci writes: I'm excited by what we've put together but also exhausted. We've done an incredible amount of work during the last year. Now...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., SDK, Adobe Illustrator, Tool, Joshua Marinacci, Productivity, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- Learning from Walmart
- Learning from WalmartLower cost, much more flexibility- no help desk needed- lets you put sysadmins into user groups, reporting to user managers- eliminates most security and processing failure risks- gives you OS independent access to software - eliminates user impact and costs of evergreen policiesHow would SUN Ray help?ntSmart displays?"put...
- Tags: Keyboards, Operating systems, Sun Ray, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., IT Development, Smart Display, Microsoft Corp., Murph
- Discussion threads 2008-07-28
- Sun to make health care play through identity
- If you're at home accessing a health care site and need authentication to reach a patient portal it's transparent to you as a patient. It's the infrastructure for their authentication and authorization by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Patient, Sun Microsystems Inc., Health Care, Identity, Open SSO, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
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