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  The year of the Sun

• AAPT looks forward to $50 million cloud business

  By Spandas Lui | 03 August, 2011 12:24

  With a plan to offer more cloud-based services, a $50 million revenue goal for AAPT’s infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) business is a reasonable target in the next few years, according to the telco’s CEO, David Yuile.

• Oracle making Java, Solaris certifications pricier

  By Chris Kanaracus | 02 March, 2011 07:05

  Later this year, Oracle will begin requiring people interested in gaining Java and Solaris certifications to attend "hands-on" training courses, at an additional cost of thousands of dollars.

• Sice joins Acronis

  By Julia Talevski | 17 February, 2011 11:07

  Backup and recovery vendor, Acronis, has hired Karl Sice as its new Pacific general manager.

• Oracle moves Sun docs, sparking user debate

  By Chris Kanaracus | 28 January, 2011 07:10

  Oracle's recent move to switch Sun Microsystems documentation to Oracle support infrastructure has some users up in arms, since the original links currently redirect to a general table of contents.

• CSC renews $107m Immigration deal

  By Julia Talevski | 17 January, 2011 12:51

  Integrator, CSC, has renewed its contract with the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) to the tune of $107 million.

• itX reports solid year despite hardware challenges

  By Jennifer O'Brien | 27 October, 2010 15:18

  Despite “a tough and uncertain trading environment,” itX Group Limited got off to an excellent start and posted a record first half result, according to its 2010 annual report.

• Industry backs Avnet and itX move

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 27 August, 2010 09:19

  The $77.5 million potential acquisition of itX by global player, Avnet, has been heralded as a wise move by the broader industry, which is unconcerned that the consolidation is a sign of a shrinking distribution market, or one that favours global distributors.

• Applaud hires Richards as managed services practice manager

  By Julia Talevski | 03 August, 2010 13:51

  IT managed services provider, Applaud, has hired Mark Richards as its managed services practice manager based in Sydney.

• Oracle, Sun launch high-end OLTP server

  By James Niccolai | 16 September, 2009 10:49

  Oracle has launched a high-end database and storage system that it co-developed with Sun Microsystems, the companies' first joint product since announcing their plans to merge almost five months ago.

• Sun tussles with de-duplication startup

  By Stephen Lawson | 15 July, 2009 09:22

  Sun Microsystems is suing startup GreenBytes for allegedly claiming that Sun stole its data de-duplication technology.

• Sun's Rock doomed from start, analysts say

  By Agam Shah | 18 June, 2009 09:27

  Sun's development Rock processor was a troubled project that may never have stood a chance, analysts said following reports that the chip had been axed.

• Data center derby heats up

  By Beth Schultz | 16 June, 2009 00:17

  Network thoroughbred Cisco jumps into the blade server market. Server stallion HP adds security blades to its ProCurve switches. IBM teams up with Brocade. Oracle buys Sun. And everybody courts that prize filly VMware.

• Oracle will stay in the hardware business, Ellison says

  By Sumner Lemon | 08 May, 2009 11:01

  Oracle plans to stay in the hardware business following its planned US$7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems, CEO Larry Ellison has said, adding more detail to earlier statements made by the company.

• King of the dynamic IDEs

  By James R. Borck | 27 February, 2009 08:48

  Komodo IDE 5 from ActiveState is the most comprehensive code editor and debugger available for enterprise teams that develop applications using a range of dynamic languages. Komodo's strong debugging skills are blended with broad-based coding support for Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby, not to mention Tcl, Java, C, C++, Visual Basic, and many more. With powerful HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and XML support, Komodo is a great Web 2.0 companion as well.