sun microsystems

EnterpriseStorageForum: "ZFS, of course, came into the Oracle fold courtesy of its acquisition of Sun Microsystems."

The H Open: "Meh – Oracle took over Sun – With the completion of Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems, a new regime of Oracle's "special" brand of communications took over from Sun's bloggy, chatty style.

The Oracle brand of communications mostly involves Oracle not saying anything or so little that the community is left to fill in the blanks."

OStatic: "While our recent roundup of 2010's biggest open source events emphasized the fact that two large, public U.S. companies focused primarily on open source--Sun Microsystems and Novell--lost their independence, 2011 promises to be the year that open source takes on massive appeal..."

LWN.net: "ZFS was developed by Sun Microsystems, and is now owned by Oracle. It offers some nice features that Linux does not (yet) have in a production-quality filesystem."

The Register: "Let's forget the last few years ever happened — the last five, at least. Possibly 10.

In the 1980s Sun Microsystems was on fire."

Larry Ellison first touted the idea of network computer in 1995. One of the early believers was Eric Schmidt, then with Sun Microsystems.

Today, with the launch of Chrome OS, his line long dream of a network OS, centered around web and net-applications has fine come alive.

Computerworld: "Scott McNealy has kept a low profile since Oracle bought his company earlier this year, but on Wednesday the former chairman and CEO of Sun Microsystems shared some thoughts on the acquisition."