Sean Gallagher

SAN FRANCISCO—In a keynote that focused on the successes of the Java community and on ways that the community can benefit society, Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy broke the news of Suns SeeBeyond acquisition to attendees of the JavaOne conference here with a joke. “I saw that the [session on the] JBI service-oriented architecture was […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Sun Microsystems had plenty of gifts for its faithful partners and software development community, as the company celebrated the tenth anniversary of Java. And there was more being offered than t-shirts and a fake birthday cake for Duke, the Java mascot. Sun Microsystems Inc.s Chief Operating Officer and President Jonathan Schwartz announced at Suns […]

The Weblogging world, much like the rest of the universe, is awash in great ideas. Some take root and become part of the fabric of the Internet. Others live on mostly in flame wars. And the vast majority never amount to more than an archive on a moldering list server somewhere. Weblog “ping” services and […]

Sun Microsystems Java has just turned 10 years old. And it seems Sun is already planning for how to handle the difficulties of adolescence. While there wasnt much directly said about Java at Suns Network Computing quarterly event in Washington, D.C., last week, Sun CEO Scott McNealy and Executive Vice President John Loiciano made it […]

While most of the attention Friday is on the client version of Apples latest release of its Mac OS X operating system, Tiger Server is a major event in itself. It bridges the worlds of open source, Unix and Windows, and may be the key to finally gaining Apple a foothold in the corporate data […]

Just in time for the release of Apple Computer Inc.s new Mac OS X “Tiger” operating system, the company announced upgrades to its line of Power Mac workstations Wednesday. And many of the latest enhancements are targeted squarely at Apples creative professional customers. The latest refresh to the dual-processor Power Mac line increases processor speed […]

There are two possible reactions that creative professionals could have to the announcement of Adobes planned acquisition of Macromedia. The first is probably one I cant print here without the use of profanity. Undoubtedly, the merged Adobe-Macromedia monolith will be able to bring an impressive array of technology to bear on the problems that face […]

Apple Computer Inc. announced Tuesday that it will release both the client and server versions of Mac OS X 10.4, code-named Tiger, on April 29. The operating system will go on sale through Apples own retail stores and Apple authorized resellers starting at 6 p.m. as part of a “special retail event.” First announced last […]

Publish.com and PDFzone.com are now part of Ziff Davis Medias family of online publications. You may have noticed some changes today—and youre bound to see more in the coming weeks. We hope youll find that the changes are for the better. As a company thats in the business of print and Web publishing, we here […]

Apple Computer Inc. took aim at the data center on Tuesday, unveiling a new version of its Xserve line of rack-mountable servers and announcing the availability of its Xsan storage area network file system in advance of next weeks Macworld conference in San Francisco. Xsan, which Apple unveiled last spring at the National Association of […]