Cnet news blog reports that Sun Microsystems has released the first beta for OpenOffice.org 3 for Windows and Mac. The new version of OpenOffice, which is a popular open-source competitor to Microsoft Office, looks to offer users improvements on every component from interface to features to behaviour. OpenOffice now supports OS X, so Mac users [...]

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Sun is to open source the last closed-source parts of Java, a move that should make it possible to fully integrate the software into Linux distributions. Rich Sands, Sun’s group manager for developer marketing, confirmed on Friday that Sun expects the work to be completed by the end of this year. Most of Java has [...]

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Sun Microsystems will hold its first MySQL conference in Santa Clara, California, next week, the first since it acquired the company. The main event will be the release of MySQL 5.1, which will feature partitioning, events scheduling, row-based replication, and disk-based clustering. These are fairly standard features already offered by rivals IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft, [...]

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Sun Microsystems has announced it is developing a Java Virtual Machine for Apple’s iPhone, and plans to release the JVM some time after June, enabling Java applications to run on the popular mobile device. The JVM is to be based on the Micro Edition (ME) version of Java, said Eric Klein, vice president of Java [...]

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Sun Microsystems has confirmed the acquisition of MySQL AB, developer of the world’s most popular open source database. “Since announcing our Sun-MySQL relationship, we’ve received an overwhelming response and embrace from customers and community members excited to see MySQL’s tremendous innovation and community backed by Sun’s financial muscle and global partners,” said Jonathan Schwartz, president [...]

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