Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Sun Microsystems announced an alliance to simplify sales, service, and support for customers who run – or can be coaxed to run – Sun’s Solaris 10 operating system on HP’s X86. HP already has the same level of agreement for Microsoft Windows, Novell SUSE Linux, Red Hat Linux, and VMware with their respected vendors. On the other hand Sun had signed similar Solaris distribution deals with IBM and Dell Inc., way back in 2007.
HP and Sun compete each other in the server hardware business, so this move was little unexpected. According to this new partnership HP will distribute and provide support for Solaris 10 on …
Growing admiration and success of Apple’s application store sparked concerns among Apple’s rivals that they are falling short of edge. Inevitably this fuels up their research and craves for something similar or better. In this endeavour Sun Microsystems came up with a mobile platform that enables developers to create iPhone-like apps for a wide variety of handsets. The JavaFX Mobile platform which launched yesterday (Thursday, 13th February 2009) will allow developers to create rich applications across the broadest possible range of mobile devices, from consumer handsets to smart phones. Without any doubt this was something a lot of developer’s were longing for. …