Sun is hoping to increase the penetration of Linux on the enterprise desktop by slashing the price of its Java Desktop System, which is designed to replace Microsoft's Windows operating system and ...

Red Hat will release a new version of its software for corporate desktops, while Sun will use Linux on its own desktop PCs as part of a plan to cut real estate costs. Stephen Shankland Former ...

Sun's Java Desktop System for Linux hit the streets in December. However, the company doesn't expect to deliver its server stack and tools for Linux until later this year. Simon Phipps, chief ...

The newest incarnation of Sun’s JDS (Java Desktop System) is a visually pleasing desktop loosely based on SuSE Linux, though it departs from standard Linux distributions in mildly annoying ways. That ...

The U.K.’s National Health Service said this week that it purchased 5,000 licenses for Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Java Desktop System (JDS) as an alternative to Windows, in a move that could potentially ...