Sun Microsystems Inc. is set to release today its first software for managing the assignments of multiple computer servers, an important initial step in the sagging hardware firm’s effort to ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. shares soared Wednesday after a published report said International Business Machines Corp. is in preliminary talks to buy Sun for at least $6.5 billion in cash.

Sun Microsystems is giving students and professors a free ride. The company announced last week that it would no longer charge them for nearly 100 software products, including programming tools.

Sun Microsystems says it has reorganized and re-branded its disparate software lines, hoping to be better able to explain, and hence sell, its software to large corporate customers.

Sun Microsystems is laying off 15 percent to 18 percent of its employees as part of a restructuring plan aimed at saving $700 million to $800 million. Sun's software division is being reorganized ...

Sun Microsystems on Monday said it has reorganized and re-branded its disparate software lines and put them all under the Sun ONE umbrella. By re-branding its software, Sun hopes to better explain ...

In a new battle for market share, tech titans Microsoft, Adobe Systems and Sun Microsystems are promoting rival platforms to build software applications for an Internet that’s evolved from text ...

Server and software maker Sun Microsystems Inc. has a novel twist on the data center: a portable version of the hulking outposts that house nothing but computers and equipment needed to store and ...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Sun Microsystems on Wednesday said it's shifting to free and open software by making the Java Enterprise System, Sun N1 management software and Sun developer tools ...