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AAPL up nearly 14% among broad market gains

by Robert Palmer (RSS feed) on Oct 13th, 2008

Shares of Apple stock closed higher today, among a widespread buying spree that pushed the Dow Industrials up a record-breaking 936 points.

AAPL closed at $110.26 per share, an increase of $13.46. Nearly 55 million shares changed hands.

Microsoft, Dell, Google, HP, Sun, and AT&T also posted double-digit percentage gains for the day.

Analyst firm Sanford C. Bernstein upgraded Apple stock to "outperform" this morning, saying the company's short-term prognosis looks good, despite the dip in the market. Bernstein did, however, cut its price target by $50 to $135.

AAPL was up slightly in after-hours trading.

Tags: aapl, att, bernstein, dell, dow, google, hp, microsoft, share, shares, stock, sun

Filed under: OS, Freeware, Open Source

Sun xVM VirtualBox: free x86 virtualiztion

by Mat Lu (RSS feed) on May 23rd, 2008

We first noted the open-source virtualization application VirtualBox way back in 2007, and since then this open-source competitor to VMware Fusion and Parallels has come a long way. Most importantly, perhaps, the project was acquired by Sun Microsystems and has now become Sun xVM VirtualBox with a great deal more support.

The application is free for personal use and is available for a wide variety of x86 platforms including OS X on Intel Macs. The feature set is extensive and includes a lot of the features of its commercial counterparts. That said, it lacks many of the niceties of those programs, including any kind of 3D graphics support. Nonetheless, it's hard to argue with free and is probably worth checking out if your virtualized Windows requirements are modest.

Sun xVM VirtualBox is a free download from Sun.

Thanks, Dean!

Tags: Parallels, Sun, VirtualBox, virtualization, VMware Fusion, VmwareFusion

Filed under: Apple, iPhone

Sun working on Java for the iPhone

by Scott McNulty (RSS feed) on Mar 8th, 2008

Sun Microsystems is known for many things, but it is probably best known for Java. The promise of Java is that programmers can write an application once and run it on any machine, or device, that has a Java Virtual Machine (a virtual environment that runs on a computer which includes the Java runtime, so that the Java code can run).

That's the promise of Java, sadly, the reality isn't always the same. Java Virtual Machines on different platforms often require special code (which kind of defeats the purpose) and most damning of all (especially on the Mac) is that Java has its own library of UI elements. Unless a Java programmer goes out of their way to make sure their app looks like a native app, it often has an unmistakable 'Java look' to it.

Sun now wants you to have all that Java fun on the iPhone. Shortly after the launch of the iPhone SDK, Sun started looking into the possibility of making a Java VM for the iPhone. After some investigating, they are sure that Java ME (that's the version of Java optimized for mobile devices) on the iPhone is possible and Sun wants to bring it to you. I'm sure there are many Java developers out there are very happy to hear this news.

Thanks, TJ.

Tags: iphone, java, sun

Filed under: WWDC, Apple, Leopard

No ZFS by default for Leopard

by Scott McNulty (RSS feed) on Jun 12th, 2007

Remember when Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun, told an audience that OS X would be sporting ZFS as the file system of choice and that we would find out all about it at WWDC? It would seem no one told Apple that, as the Stevenote came and went with nary a mention of ZFS or Sun. InformationWeek caught up with Brian Croll, Apple's senior director of product marketing for Mac OS X, and asked about ZFS on the Mac. Croll said, "ZFS is not happening," and that HFS+ is the default.

It is unclear if Leopard will still support ZFS as an option, but it is clear that the default is still HSF+.

Thanks to everyone who sent this in.

Update: ZFS is still an option in Leopard, it is just not the default. I've updated the headline to reflect this.

Tags: apple, leopard, sun, zfs

Filed under: OS, Rumors, WWDC, Apple, Leopard

ZFS to be the default file system in Leopard?

by Scott McNulty (RSS feed) on Jun 6th, 2007

Steve is gonna be mad. You remember all those secret features that Leopard is supposed to have? And how Steve is going to wow us all with them at WWDC? Well, it looks like a little birdie, in the form of a big tech company's CEO, just let the whole world into one of those secrets. Mac Rumors points out that Jonathan Schwartz told an audience at a Sun event that the default filesystem in Leopard will be ZFS.

We've known for awhile that Leopard will support ZFS, so that wasn't too shocking. This is the first anyone has heard about ZFS being the default filesystem for Leopard though. Why is this a big deal? Well, ZFS is a filesystem that Sun built from the groundup to address modern needs at the filesystem level. ZFS is a 128bit filesystem meaning it can theoretically hold up to 16 exabytes worth of information across multiple devices (an exabyte, in case you don't know, is about 1,073,741,824 gigabytes so the ZFS can hold 17,179,869,184 GB of data though that would be many, many harddrives). Wikipedia has a full explanation of ZFS, which highlights all the cool features.

I suppose we'll all find out on Monday.

Tags: angry steve, AngrySteve, exabyte, sun, ZSF

Filed under: Software, Open Source

Sun joins OpenOffice Mac Porting Project

by Scott McNulty (RSS feed) on May 3rd, 2007

Fans of OpenOffice, the open source alternative to MS Office, rejoice! Sun, the company that puts the dot in .com, has just announced that they are joining the OpenOffice Mac porting project. What does this mean? It means that the chances of a Aqua version of OpenOffice materializing has just gone way up. Jim Parkinson even suggests that Sun might port StarOffice (which is the version of OpenOffice that Sun distributes itself) to OS X.

Thanks, Mark.

Tags: open office, OpenOffice, sun

Filed under: OS

Solaris on an Intel iMac

by Scott McNulty (RSS feed) on Apr 14th, 2006

The OSes just keep on coming! The latest non-Apple OS to boot on an Intel Mac, thanks to Boot Camp, is Solaris. That's right, a Sun engineer managed to get a build of Solaris up and running on his Intel iMac. It isn't fully functional yet, but I have no doubt that it will be soon.

Macs are fast becoming the Swiss Army knives of computing.

[via OSNews]

Tags: imac, intel imac, IntelImac, mactel, solaris, sun

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