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Sun is laying off 15 percent to 18 percent of its employees as part of a restructuring plan aimed at saving $700 million to $800 million a year, and its top software executive is leaving the company, Sun said Friday.

Corporate IT executives need to create internal task forces today to deal with what can be an expensive threat - litigation, Black Hat attendees were told.

Open source is making its way into more and more enterprises with cheap, robust alternatives to solutions offered by proprietary software vendors. Read this article to learn about eight open-source companies worth watching in the areas of Web search, server virtualization, data integration, collaboration software and e-mail.

Once the domain of monolithic, multimillion-dollar supercomputers from Cray and IBM, HPC (high-performance computing) is now firmly within reach of today's enterprise, thanks to the affordable computing power of clustered standards-based Linux and Microsoft servers running commodity Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors. Many early movers are in fact already capitalizing on in-house HPC, assembling and managing small-scale clusters on their own.

The president of virtualization software leader VMware Wednesday questioned the strategy of rivals that are integrating virtualization functionality into their operating systems.

The key to Sun Microsystems' success going forward is increased adoption of its Solaris 10 operating system, company CEO Jonathan Schwartz said Tuesday.

Oracle customers are intrigued by recent musings by Larry Ellison, the company's chief executive officer, suggesting Oracle might offer its own Linux distribution. Users would welcome the tighter integration a complete Oracle software stack of operating system, database, middleware and applications could provide.

IT managers who want to deploy an open source solution but are worried about company politics should go ahead and do it without asking, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) Japan IT manager Mark Uemura.

Google has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an initial public offering (IPO) of common stock, putting the Internet search pioneer on its way to becoming a public company.

Business intelligence and analytics vendor Business Objects has revealed it will offer Linux support for its new Enterprise6 (E6) software suite.

To hear some people tell it, Linux is taking the world by storm. Unilever, a US$52 billion consumer products giant, is switching to Linux to run its businesses around the world. Major vendors such as IBM, SAP and Computer Associates are porting mainstream business applications and utilities to the low-cost, open-source operating system.