Sun is trying to restart talks with IBM, but is being met with a cold shoulder. [/caption] The on-again, off-again soap opera romance between Sun Microsystems and IBM is back on -- but apparently one-sided, because IBM is reportedly not interested. Negotiations for IBM (NYSE: IBM) to purchase Sun (NASDAQ: JAVA) for $7 billion seemed all but settled last week until they collapsed at the 11th hour. Since then, both companies have gone…
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Has Sun been holding Java back? In the beginning (1995), Java was created by Sun Microsystems. Then Sun saw that Java was bigger than just Sun (NASDAQ: JAVA) and opened up the process of building Java with the Java Community Process (JCP) in 1998. Yet now with rumors of IBM acquiring Sun swirling, the Java community could undergo its most significant change in a decade. There have been questions about Sun's…
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Author Nicholas Carr sees parallels between the power grid and cloud computing that presage big changes for IT. SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Cloud services will be what the electrical grid was a century ago: the basis for a whole new set of services, markets and possibilities that can change the way we live and operate, but also threaten the dominant computing hierarchy. That was the general theme of the closing keynote speech…
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