Sun's landmark October 1997 lawsuit charged Microsoft with copyright infringement and breach of contract for failing to maintain compatibility with Sun's version of Java.
Sun's new device, which its makers call the "ultimate thin client, " could pose a threat to IBM's business and add more zip to Sun's revenues.
Present-day journalists on the list include the Sun's political editor Trevor Kavanagh and the paper's chief reporter, John Kay, and Sir Larry Lamb, the editor who pioneered the Sun's populist style and introduced page three girls.
Sun's applications server strategy became somewhat hazy after the acquisition, when, as a spin-off of America Online's (AOL)purchase of Netscape Communications, Sun acquired Netscape's application server software.
Miles suggested AOL acquiring Netscape and for Sun to partner with Netscape, bringing AOL's eyeballs together with Sun's servers.
Other companies that lack IBM's and Sun's levels of foreign revenue and could be more exposed to the risk of a chilling U.S. computer market are Cisco, which splits its business nearly evenly between the United States and the rest of the world, and Computer Sciences, which draws about 70% of its business from the United States.
Other companies that lack IBM's and Sun's levels of foreign revenue and could be more exposed to the risk of a chilling U.S. computer market are Cisco (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ), which splits its business nearly evenly between the United States and the rest of the world, and Computer Sciences (nyse: CSC - news - people ), which draws about 70% of its business from the United States.
Excluding Wednesday's increase, Sun's stock has lost 68.3% of its value over the past 12 months.
The ozone layer protects living things on the Earth's surface from the Sun's ultra-violet radiation.
Merrill's analyst also cited Sun's late entry into the data-storage field as a reason to avoid this stock.
Like Oracle's Larry Ellison, Sun's boss, Scott McNealy, is ready to put his money where his not inconsiderable mouth is.
Sun's OpenOffice.org project should be ready by October and will not only give users access to open-source code but will also provide filters to allow Sun customers to use Microsoft's rival products.
If Oracle's previous acquisitions are any guide, Sun's workforce, which has seen many waves of lay-offs in recent years, will be cut further, so that Oracle can meet its targets for the deal.
When skin (the body's largest organ) is exposed to the sun's rays, free radicals can develop, Katz explained.
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But today's cut by Merrill Lynch added significantly to Sun's downward momentum.
In addition to viewing the sun's luminous outer atmosphere (corona), which under normal circumstances is lost in the glare of the rays, they will be using the eclipse to calculate the star's current diameter, which changes as the sun expends energy.
"It's very nice to visit Los Angeles, the sun's out and you bump into big celebrities like Same Difference and you can have burgers for breakfast, lunch and dinner, " he joked.
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Going back to the example of the sun's motion under the influence of Jupiter, the sun wobbles by about 1.5m kilometres from side to side with every orbit of the planet.
The Corona, created under the guidance of Gene Bauman, VP and General Manager of SMCC's Desktop Systems and Workstations Product Group, represents Sun's attempt to make good on many of the promises that it failed to deliver a couple of years ago.
Just determining the carbon emissions per watt of electricity used in each of the company's various zip codes is a daunting task, says Sun's Douglas.
It's early evening in the Bitterroot Valley, and the sun's rays mingle with plumes of smoke rising from the mountains as firefighters load up their trucks before heading out for the overnight shift.
MySQL's lighter-weight database system may also fit into Sun's ambitions of becoming a major player in "utility computing, " a model of information technology infrastructure that pipes in software applications, processing and storage over the Internet rather than from a company's own data centers.
Dell, in turn, has poked Sun's eye by disclosing that it is replacing all of its Sun systems worldwide with Dell boxes running Linux.
Exposure to the sun's rays normally generates Vitamin D in the skin, but applying sun block stops that process.
Noting Sun's swing toward software, the Silicon Valley rumor mill is wondering whether Sun will sustain the 19-year-old Sparc chip program.
's U.K. newspaper unit said Ms. Wheeler is the Sun's defense editor.
EMC's chief strategy officer for its Symettrix project, Barry Burke, disputes Sun's claim that consumer devices are driving the drop in flash memory's price.
The BBC's home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said the officer had backed up the Sun's version of events and the language - including the word "pleb" - that Mr Mitchell was reported to have used.
The program's goal is to increase the IT hiring pool while seeding the market with Sun-related expertise, says Pat Deagman, Sun's vice president and general manager of enterprise network services in Palo Alto, Calif.
Find this orientation by looking through the crystal at the sky at a time when you can see the sun, mark the sun's direction on the crystal, and your mark will always point towards the sun when you match the beams from even a tiny patch of blue in an otherwise overcast sky.
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