Stories about: Cobalt Networks

Sun Microsystems is pulling back plans to market and sell its Linux-based desktop operating system and is considering giving the technology to the open-source community, the company quietly admitted at JavaOne this week.

A 130-person startup run by the former chief executive officer of Cobalt Networks next year will begin shipping a new multicore server designed to speed up Java processing in the data center.

Vendors selling server appliances promised customers they could have a box up and running in 15 minutes. Well, for the vendors, their 15 minutes of fame are up.

One of the key executives driving Sun Microsystems's nascent Linux strategy left the company last week, adding to a long list of top employees who have recently decided to depart from Sun.

The Linux community and its suppliers gather this week to view the latest wares at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo at the Jacob Javits Center overlooking the Hudson River in New York.

Unixpac, an Australian provider of Linux-based servers, has introduced the next release of the Cobalt Qube series by Cobalt Networks. The Qube 3 has many new features including new user-friendly administration software and automatic configuration utilities.

Sun Microsystems has agreed to buy Cobalt Networks, a Linux server appliance company, in a stock-swap deal worth US$2 billion.

IBM today announced today that it expand its agreement with Chili!Soft to provide complete Web hosting solutions for the UNIX environment. This will allow Chili!Soft Active Server Pages to run on IBM's RS/6000 servers with the AIX operating system.

ChiliSoft has announced the release of ASP 3.5.2 and SpicePack 1.0 for Linux. The software is now supported by many Linux distributions and a trial version can be downloaded from their web site.

Linux is becoming the choice for many ISPs, and to support the growing demand, a number of vendors offer custom servers packaged specifically for that market. Among them are Cobalt Networks, Rebel.com, and NetMachines. In comparison, NetMachines' RedRak is Red Hot.

Our US counter-parts recently attended the NetWorld and Interop Conference and Expo. Standing out on the exhibition floor was an Linux presence.