28 results about this entity
Period: 29 Jun 2004 - 19 Oct 2009
News
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.
19 October 2009
Just weeks after takeover talks with IBM collapsed, Sun Microsystems has agreed a surprise $7.4 billion cash deal to be acquired by Oracle.
20 April 2009
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.
18 March 2009
Spanish savings bank Caja Madrid is overhauling its financial messaging strategy with Sun Microsystems' suite for Swift.
17 December 2008
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.
30 October 2008
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.
02 October 2007
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.
12 April 2007
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.
14 March 2007
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.
20 February 2007
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.
23 March 2006
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.
15 February 2006
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.
07 February 2006
Dutch financial services firm ING has implemented an Internet banking system developed by Sun Microsystems at its retail banking subsidiary, Postbank.
30 August 2005
Sun Microsystems is to acquire middleware firm SeeBeyond for $387 million in cash.
28 June 2005
Dutch data management technology vendor Asset Control is establishing a new technology developement centre in Times Square, New York.
23 June 2005
New York investment firm DE Shaw has purchased 1700 Sun Fire servers running the Solaris 10 operating system for a massive computational grid project.
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.
22 June 2005
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.
08 June 2005
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.
31 March 2005
Meff, the Spanish financial futures exchange, has begun moving its electronic trading system to a new technology platform supplied by Sun Microsystems.
08 March 2005
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