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Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to cut up to 6,000 jobs, or 18 percent of its global work force. The company would also be splitting its software division into three new business groups. One will handle Sun's Java programming language, open-source...

Over the last few decades, software applications evolved from character mode terminal applications , to desktop applications, to client/server (network enabled desktop) applications, and now to Web applications. Client/server applications brought distributed computing to reality first. One of the key...

In cost-cutting move, the software and networking company said it would reduce its payroll by up to 18% and restructure its business operations.

Fly is a lightweight Object Space that can distribute and coordinate information on clusters of computers in the form of Objects.

If you havent done this, its time now go check out ZK, a open source AJAX RIA development environment/tool/framework, which is Java driven and claims to be Direct RIA solution. Flex developers, be aware.