Sun Microsystems Inc

28 results about this entity

Period: 29 Jun 2004 - 19 Oct 2009

Apply Cancel
IBM exec among six charged over tech insider trading scheme

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

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 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

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 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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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.

Welcome to Finextra. We use cookies to help us to deliver our services. You may change your preferences at our Cookie Centre.

Please read our Privacy Policy.

Accept