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Japan's Fujitsu and Sun Microsystems Inc have agreed to combine their server businesses, with high-end models to be made by a Fujitsu unit, a newspaper reported on Thursday. On other Sun news, they are ready to link Solaris x86 boxes into the SAN.

Today's microprocessors will become extinct by the end of the decade, to be replaced by computers built onto a single chip, Sun Microsystems Chief Technology Officer Greg Papadopoulos said Tuesday.

"I finally received the Mad Hatter Preview in the mail this weekend. I couldn’t wait to get this demo out and actually test the software, hoping that this would answer some questions that I had about the product. I was somewhat surprised to find a Live CD version of Mad Hatter instead of an actual beta, but that’s okay, I could still see what it was, even if I cannot truly install it. The truly nice thing about Live CD’s is that they don’t require that much space to get the flavor of the system. In other words, you really do not make any significant changes to an existing machine." Read the review at LinuxVoodoo.

Despite Sun Microsystems' recent financial calamities, industry veterans say the battered company is hardly on the verge of collapse. Can it draw on its history of being a technical innovator? Elsewhere, "the new Java desktop has the Windows look-and-feel, but its StarOffice has so far had a lukewarm response. Can Sun convince users accustomed to MS-Office, to switch from Windows? Read at CIOL.

"Sun Microsystems crossed the line from "troubled" to "doomed" yesterday. This is sad news for the open-source community, and we need to think about how we're going to deal with it. The most pressing questions are, "What becomes of Java?" and, "What becomes of OpenOffice.org?" These are questions that matter." Read the editorial at NewsForge by Eric S. Raymond.

This article describes how to install and deploy the Sun Fire Link product so that it can be securely managed and operated. This is the second article in a two-part series, this article provides recommendations for securing the Sun Linux 5.0 operating system. This article provides a technical overview of the Linux operating environment and compares and contrasts it with the Solaris OE.

Sun Microsystems' flirtation with AMD continues with the 'Java Desktop System' set to make its way onto the Athlon 64 processor. When Sun releases the Linux-based Java Desktop software later this year, it will run on AMD's Ahtlon 64 processor but only in 32bit mode. Sun plans to rectify this situation "over time" and create a 64bit version of the Java Desktop for AMD's x86-64bit desktop chip.

A recent assessment of Sun Microsystems Inc.'s enterprise Linux strategy by Boston-based analyst firm Aberdeen Inc., cautions IT managers and decision makers about Sun's internal bias toward Solaris and the perception that Sun isn't serious about Linux.

"Sun finally unveiled the full dimensions of its quest to change the computing landscape this week. It's fundamentally a more monolithic landscape populated by pre-integrated components either acquired by or developed by Sun. It's an alternative to Microsoft Windows abstracted from the operating systems (Solaris and Linux) and processors (SPARC and x86). It's also Sun's attempt to become a leading solutions provider competing against IBM, HP and Microsoft." Read the editorial at ZDNews.

Chris Gulker is offering a first look of Sun's new desktop OS, dubbed "Java Desktop System", for NewsForge. Yesterday, OSNews also published its first impressions on the Linux-based OS.

InfoWorld features three articles on Sun: "Sun Network: Welcome to the post-boom Sun": Company hopes to bolster its enterprise worth at next week's user conference. "Sun steals page from Microsoft's playbook": Grid, p-to-p software missing from Project Orion's official launch. "Sun inches toward low-cost computing": Company demos Oracle 10g database running on a cluster of its Intel-based servers. Also, McNealy, 48, who co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982, sat down last week with a group of Chronicle reporters and editors to discuss the challenges facing his company.

Every tier-one computer company has a core of individuals who act as the company's Big Brains. At IBM and Novell, they are known as "fellows." Same for Microsoft. More often than not, company Big Brains hole up in labs and rarely make public appearances. Not Jonathan Schwartz, one of the Big Brains at Sun Microsystems. Recently, VARBusiness senior executive editor T.C. Doyle caught up with Schwartz to learn more about his dual mission. Also, Sun Microsystems may add a provision to some of its Java licenses to protect consumers from Linux-related lawsuits filed by the SCO Group. "You license Java--we will indemnify you on Linux," says Sun's Jonathan Schwartz.

In an about-face that could have a dramatic impact in the Java tools space, Sun Microsystems Inc. has indicated it might be willing to join the IBM-sponsored Eclipse open-source development platform effort—but only if momentum to spin off the effort into an independent organization continues.

Linux on Desktop is what Xandros trying to push when they took over the Corel Linux. Their effort in attracting Windows refugee with their version 1.0 was quite a success. Now Xandros released their updated version of Xandros OS Deluxe version 1.1. OSForge is reviewing this release.