Sun Microsystems Inc

28 results about this entity

Period: 29 Jun 2004 - 19 Oct 2009

IBM exec among six charged over tech insider trading scheme

A top IBM executive is among six people charged by US authorities over an alleged $20 million hedge fund insider trading scam involving some of the world's biggest technology companies.

Oracle to buy Sun Microsystems for $7.4bn

Just weeks after takeover talks with IBM collapsed, Sun Microsystems has agreed a surprise $7.4 billion cash deal to be acquired by Oracle.

IBM in talks to buy Sun Microsystems - WSJ

IBM is in talks to buy Sun Microsystems in a cash deal worth at least $6.5 billion that would tighten its grip on the server market, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Caja Madrid overhauls financial messaging with Sun Microsystems

Spanish savings bank Caja Madrid is overhauling its financial messaging strategy with Sun Microsystems' suite for Swift.

SunGard ships white-labelled corporate payments package

SunGard has packaged its Ambit Payments system together with Sun Microsystems' software and hardware to deliver a pre-tested and pre-configured system for corporate payments.

Sun treasury works with BofA on ISO20022 payments messaging

The growing support among both corporates and banks for the ISO 20022 messsaging standard was illustrated today with the news that Bank of America and Sun Microsystems are piloting a payments processing system based on the specification.

Tech vendors form MiFID alliance

A consortium of technology vendors, led by Sun Microsystems and Avitis, are forming a pan-European alliance that aims to help financial services firms comply with the European Union's Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) which comes into force in November.

Financial industry leads other verticals in spending on servers

Gartner says the financial services industry led all vertical markets in server revenue for IT firms, accounting for 25.1% of worldwide server revenue in 2006. Among vendors, IBM accounted for the largest share of this revenue.

Sun completes tech overhaul at National Stock Exchange

The National Stock Exchange (NSX) in the US has switched its electronic trading and reporting systems to a new technology platform supplied and implemented by Sun Microsystems.

Sun computing utility suffers DoS attack

Sun Microsystems has suffered a denial-of-service attack on the first day of operation of its much heralded pay-per-CPU Grid computing utility.

Microsoft specs out InfoCard security credentials

The forthcoming release of Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser will support the company's much-touted federated identity system InfoCard as part of the WinFX programming model.

Sun's Nigel Woodward defects to Intel

Nigel Woodward, for many years the public face of Sun's global capital markets business, has been recruited by Intel to head up the chipmaker's financial services strategy.

ING Postbank deploys Sun Internet banking platform

Dutch financial services firm ING has implemented an Internet banking system developed by Sun Microsystems at its retail banking subsidiary, Postbank.

Sun targets SOA market with SeeBeyond acquisition

Sun Microsystems is to acquire middleware firm SeeBeyond for $387 million in cash.

Asset Control to open New York development centre

Dutch data management technology vendor Asset Control is establishing a new technology developement centre in Times Square, New York.

DE Shaw signs with Sun for massive grid project

New York investment firm DE Shaw has purchased 1700 Sun Fire servers running the Solaris 10 operating system for a massive computational grid project.

Sun wheels out Solaris supporters

SIA 2005: Sun has wheeled out a raft of financial customers to talk up its Solaris 10 operating system after undertaking more than 40 'proof of concept' trials with clients in the sector.

Claimonitor STP utility set for live launch

Claimonitor, a new ASP-based straight-through processing utility for automating transactions and market-related claims in the global custodian, investment banking, asset management and broker communities, is preparing for a live launch next month.

Sun parades JPMorgan support for Solaris 10

JPMorgan has committed to using Sun's Solaris 10 operating system as the platform for a range of future high-grade technology projects, including grid computing, data archiving and virtualised data centre services.

Meff begins two month cutover to Sun platform

Meff, the Spanish financial futures exchange, has begun moving its electronic trading system to a new technology platform supplied by Sun Microsystems.