In an interview to The Wall Street Journal, Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison said that he is setting a new course for Oracle that includes hiring 2,000 sales and engineering employees and developing a line of high-end computer systems.
IT majors like IBM, Sun Microsystems and Red Hat have shot letters to industry bodies -- Nasscom (for software) and MAIT (for hardware) -- and the department of information technology, protesting over the inclusion of clauses which allow for 'multiple standards' and 'royalty on software' versus a 'single' standard and 'free' software.
Software major Wipro has tied up with Sun Microsystems to widen its reach within the Gulf Cooperation Council countries such as UAE and Saudi Arabia.As part of the deal, Wipro would resell and integrate the entire suite of Sun systems, storage, software, and services to serve Sun's customers in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman and Qatar.
This is contrary to the BSNL technical committee's earlier approval to use the DR solutions of US-based Sun Microsystems and EMC Corporation. According to vendors close to the development, HP's DR solutions were not mentioned in the original purchase order issued to Ericsson, the main bidder.
A move by Swedish telecom major Ericsson, the main implementation partner for Bharat Sanchar Nigam's (BSNL) disaster recovery (DR) program, to replace Sun Microsystems and EMC Corporation storage solutions with Hewlett-Packard (HP) products has kicked up a controversy.
Howard County delegates will meet Bangalore firms to explore possibilities of business expansion of Indian companies in Howard County.
Yahoo Inc. has appointed Carol Bartz as its new chief executive officer.The 60-year-old Bartz was earlier the CEO of software maker Autodesk Inc.
The news of global IT giant IBM buying Sun Microsystems has been doing the rounds for years. So, despite the Wall Street Journal reporting that an approximately $6.5 billion buyout is imminent, analysts remain sceptical.
Tech Mahindra and IT infrastructure major Sun Microsystems announced on Monday a strategic alliance to provide systems and software for internet protocol television services to customers in India and Asia Pacific markets.
Global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing firm Accenture and Sun Microsystems on Wednesday announced that they have teamed up to set up an innovation centre in Bangalore for Sun solutions.
Logix, a company dealing in automative e-retailing solutions, is negotiating the acquisition of a US firm.
Sun Microsystems India and Wipro Technologies on Thursday announced the setting up of the first-ever Sun Centre of Excellence for Java enterprise system in India.
Sun launches Solaris University Challenge.
Indian outsourcers file the most applications for temporary H-1B visas. Are they using them to train staff for jobs abroad?
Companies are developing new engine technologies to deliver the ultimate in fuel efficiency.
The seven Indian-Americans are cybersecurity firm ZScaler CEO Jay Chaudhry, founder and chairman of Symphony Technology Group Romesh Wadhwani, cofounder and CEO of online home goods retailer Wayfair Niraj Shah, Silicon Valley venture capital firm Khosla Ventures founder Vinod Khosla, managing partner of Sherpalo Ventures Kavitark Ram Shriram, Airline veteran Rakesh Gangwal and Workday CEO and co-founder Aneel Bhusri.
India's well-known investors who are known for their Midas touch have spotted an opportunity in bio-fuel, betting big on ethanol, bio-mass and even bio-fuel equipment makers in India and other parts of the globe.
As part of its education grants and donations programme, Sun Microsystems India on Wednesday rolled out the second edition of its Sun Matching Grant Programme in the country.
By 2010, there will be shortage of half a million professionals in India.
The man known for his passion for spreading the Open Source community, believes that the real growth of Internet is happening, with an average two million new users joining everyday.
Sun Microsystems on Tuesday said it had evolved a new sales strategy - global client solutions engagement model - in its bid to help customers focus on their problems, including business compliance, reducing costs, providing secure global access and
Railways Minister Sadananda Gowda will present his maiden Rail Budget on July 8 in Parliament.
'With the introduction of Solaris 10, we believe our customers have a better alternative than Red Hat or IBM.'
The average Rs 6,20,000 per annum salary was significant, considering the 30-40 per cent annual incrase in the talent pool of the top 50 companies, a nation wide survey by IDC India for Cybermedia's flagship publication Dataquest said.
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Konkan Railways' Anti Collision Device is the first device of its kind in the world
Immigration reform is bogged down in controversy, but there's compelling new evidence that the U.S. should let in the most educated.
Scott McNealy, who is leading Sun Microsystems' two-pronged battle against Microsoft on the operating systems front and IBM on the infrastructure segment, is not a man to give up.
Sun Microsystems' Scott McNealy, co-founder and chairman, will be in India on a three-day visit starting May 16.
US software major Sun Microsystems Inc. will double its India workforce to over 2000 in the next two to three years, besides focusing on building products to tap the booming local market, company officials said on Friday.
Bajaj International has inked a pact with UK based Thinking Applications, for their web based customer relationship management product OfficeSpark.
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Co-founder of Sun Microsystems and ace venture capitalist Vinod Khosla on Sunday said India could be a leader in many technology areas, particularly bio-technology, nano materials and energy technologies.
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