At the AlwaysOn conference, Sun president Jonathan Schwartz says his company intends to make all of its software free.

Sun Microsystems will resell Interwoven’s enterprise content management platform with the Java Enterprise System.

The project, part of Sun’s Java System Access Manager, now has a roadmap to being completely open source.

Sun recently announced a new version of its Java-based software, RFID ME, for RFID readers.

“To be honest, we’ve had a little bit of a chill in our IBM relationship,” said Jonathan Schwartz, Sun’s president and chief operating officer.

Sun commits $180 million USD in training, tools, research, and grants to promote Java development.

A three-year subscription to Sun Services will get a developer a Sun Ultra 20 workstation as part of the deal.

The JavaOne Conference for Java developers opens today in San Francisco, with Sun giving a welcome gift of source code to attendees.

Daily Telegraph: The Wal-Mart publicity manager behind an advert that equated the retail giant to victims of the Nazis has resigned. Peter Kanelos, who had overseen public relations in Arizona and southern California on behalf of Wal-Mart, left his job yesterday, a few weeks after the company apologised for its PR gaffe.

Tuesday, the technology company published source code for an open source version of the Solaris operating system.

Clive Armitage oversees the management of Bite Communications and the development of its different business divisions.

The Holy See has chosen Sun to provide the management infrastructure for its communications.

On four points, all of the eight most well-known corporate blogging policies agree — corporate bloggers are personally responsible and they should abide by existing rules, keep secrets and be nice. Those four principles are the core of today’s corporate blogging rules.

The boards of Sun Microsystems and Storage Technology Corporation or StorageTek have both approved a deal for Sun to buy StorageTek for $37 per share in cash, adding up to about $4.1 billion.

The $4.1 billion USD acquisition of the storage solution company creates a single computing and data management company.

Sun Microsystems is buying Storage Technology Corporation or StorageTek for $37 per share in cash, adding up to about $4.1 billion. The acquisition has been approved by the boards of both companies.

Agreement with eMusic lets its subscribers have access to tracks from the original rock n’ roll record label.

Sun Microsystems has made a new Service Oriented Architecture practice available to bolster SOA solutions.

A year after the two tech companies signed a ten-year agreement to jointly develop software, they have announced gains in single sign-on technology.

The CEOs of the respective companies, which have had differences in the past, discussed a new joint project.

Microsoft and Sun Microsystems spent a lot of time at each other’s throats in legal battles, but last year the two companies formed a partnership which is now starting to show its results.