Sun Microsystems India Pvt Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of US-based Sun Microsystems Inc., is eyeing the telecom and banking sectors for driving growth in the high-end server market in the country.
Both companies are also strong supporters of open-source Linux and Java software
Quoting a source, The New York Times said after the legal review IBM reduced its offer on Saturday from $9.55 'to $9.40. The offer was presented to Sun's board on Saturday, and the board balked. The Sun board did not reject the offer outright, but wanted certain guarantees that the IBM side considered onerous.' According to NYT, Sun said it would no longer abide by its exclusive negotiating agreement with IBM. On Sunday, IBM's board decided to withdraw the offer.
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Software and training organisation NIIT Ltd said on Tuesday it has tied up with Sun Microsystems India Pvt Ltd to introduce specialised education and training programmes for students.
In a major step to its education initiatives, Sun Microsystems on Tuesday joined hands with Aptech to train 30,000 students and 5,000 IT professionals, besides enterprises, on Sun technologies and products.
Sun Microsystems will be slashing 3,000 positions worldwide in the backdrop of delay in the acquisition of the company by Oracle.
Oracle Corporation has announced that it will acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion.
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This is a period fraught with uncertainty for the employees of the wholly-owned Indian subsidiary of Sun Microsystems after database giant Oracle announced the acquisition of its parent for $7.4 billion on April 29.
Pramanik, who then joined Oracle India as the managing director, was instrumental in ensuring a smooth integration of Sun Microsystems India with the company.
Four Indian-Americans, including Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla, are among Forbes 400 Richest People in America, a list topped by Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
Software major Oracle has said Sun Microsystems is losing $100 million a month, while the European regulators are continuing their investigation into the software major's proposed $7.4 billion acquisition of the hardware firm, a media report says.
The statement of objections was regarding the combination of Sun's open source MySQL database product with Oracle's enterprise database products and its potential negative impact on competition in the market, Sun Microsystems said in a filing to the the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
The two companies, which have a significant presence in India, together employs more than 26,000 people in the country.
Technology giant IBM is close to a deal to buy Sun Microsystems for about $7 billion, says a media report.
Global IT major Sun Microsystems has garnered over half of the total developer population in India, while the country has retained its position of being the largest developer location for the company.
Sun Microsystems India Pvt Ltd and IT trainer NIIT said on Tuesday the companies will offer training in the growing Open Source Computing through Sun Solaris Training Programs.
India has overtaken the US and China to emerge as the largest developer location for Sun Microsystems, with over 6.29 lakh programmers working on Java and Solaris platforms.
Sun Microsystems India Pvt Ltd on Wednesday announced the 'Solaris University Challenge' that entails students from around the world to develop projects on Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) and OpenSolaris.
Sun Microsystems has committed an additional $5 million to push its academic initiative in India.
Satyam Computer Services and Sun Microsystems India on Wednesday have announced the launch of the Satyam customer solution centre on Sun Technologies.
Sun Microsystems is looking at India to provide a leadership role in developing next generation Java platform.
Internet infrastructure major Sun Microsystems in planning to ramp up its Bangalore development centre by adding another 200 professionals.
Software major Infosys Technologies Ltd has been felicitated by Sun Microsystems Inc with the "Strategic Partner Award" at their annual Asia Pacific International Software Vendor Summit.
Sun Microsystems is planning to launch the latest version of its Solaris operating system in India by mid-November, having hired 200 developers in 2004.
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Prior to the current role, Pramanik served as Managing Director for Oracle India and Sun Microsystems.
MphasiS, a software services exporter and an EDS subsidiary in India, has announced that chief executive officer Jeya Kumar has resigned to pursue external career opportunities.
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.
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.
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.
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