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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Sun Microsystems"”.
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Sun Microsystems & a strategic analysis of the workstation industry
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1988.
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OpenSPARC : how giving away CMT chip hardware implementations creates value for Sun microsystems
… can lead to enhancement of the performance of Sun's multithreaded systems and thereby increase its market share by increasing its share of the CMT ecosystem, and the share that CMT systems have within the overall computer server business ecosystem. This study explores Sun's motivation behind …
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Cross-functional environmental initiatives : addressing Restriction of Hazardous Substance (RoHS) technical challenges at Sun Microsystems
… deadlines and potential loss of EU sales, Sun and others in the electronics industry are impelled to make material and process changes based on less data and information than they would typically act on. Sun's RoHS technical team was staffed from the Central Engineering group and developed …
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Unsteady pressure and vorticity fields in blade-vortex interactions
… later with a commercial software package for a SUN Microsystems graphics terminal.
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Toward Visualizing Potential Policy Conflicts in eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML)
… to multiple resources. Companies such as IBM, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and Cisco are already providing integration of XACML in their products. Although the introduction of XACML has provided enterprises with a better approach of commonly realizing access control, there are still …
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An analysis of the strategic management of technology in the context of the organizational life-cycle
… history of a leading high technology firm, Sun Microsystems. Using a model based upon the organizational life cycle and principles of systems architecture, we capture the common and unique characteristics of how the firm is dealing with changing markets, technology, complexity and growth. …
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Managing uncertainty in new business development
… a structured and simple way. For a case study, Sun Microsystems' Jini Technology was chosen, given that it represents a technological disruption generating high levels of uncertainty in the computing industry. It is a technology oriented to take advantage of the computing and communications …
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Source code security analysis and fuzzy logic
… is a popular programming language designed by Sun Microsystems and used for desktop applications, server-side programming, mobile phones and pocket personal computers. Java was designed as a secure language and the developers considered many pitfalls common to C and C++ applications. However, …
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Building customization capability
… has been difficult for many organizations. Sun Microsystems launched a customization program called Customer Ready Systems (CRS) through a grass-roots effort in manufacturing. CRS offered assemble-to-order, factory-integrated systems. Although CRS revenues had been growing, scalability was …
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A comparative analysis of alliances in the enterprise storage market
… including EMC, IBM, Hewlett Packard, Sun Microsystems, Dell, and Compaq. Six forces that have led to the alliances in the enterprise storage space were identified. The alliances were broken down into three levels . based on the strategic importance of an alliance and the amount of …
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An analysis of the cloud computing platform
… like Amazon, SalesForce.com, Google, IBM, Sun Microsystems, and many more are offering or planning to offer these infrastructure services in one form or another.
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Sieve: A Java-Based Framework for Collaborative Component Composition
… for a collaborative workspace based on Sun Microsystems' Java programming language and JavaBeans component architecture. The feasibility of a collaborative component workspace based on these objectives is demonstrated by Sieve, a Javabased framework for collaborative applications. Sieve …
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Symphony: A Java-based Composition and Manipulation Framework for Distributed Legacy Resources
… to write visualization components. Symphony uses Sun Microsystems' JavaBeans component architecture for providing components that represent legacy resources. These components can be customized and composed in any standard JavaBeans builder tool. Executable components communicate with a server, …
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Software content delivery in an outsourced manufacturing environment
… as well. This thesis describes an effort at Sun Microsystems, Inc. to prototype the factory installation of software. Several of its competitors have already initiated factory software installation, and Sun would like to determine whether software preload is viable on systems manufactured at …
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xPheve: An extensible physics engine for virtual environments
… there is another industrial consideration. Sun Microsystems introduced a new technology for constructing portable virtual worlds called Java3D. Since Java3D is new, there are no physics engines available for Java3D programmers. This thesis proposes a new framework for developing virtual …
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Software defect tracking during new product development of a computer system
… and profitability of computer systems. Sun Microsystems markets both hardware and software for a wide variety of customer needs. The integration of hardware and software is a key core capability for Sun. Minimizing the quantity and impact of software defects on this integration during …
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A Language-Independent Static Checking System for Coding Conventions
… in Javadoc which validates documents against the Sun Microsystems (now Oracle) Coding Conventions and a checker for HTML pages against a site-specifc standard. A third system is targeted at a variant of the Python language, written by the author, called python-csp, based on Hoare's Communicating …
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Hybrid data-driven models of machine translation
… taken from a French-Enghsh translation memory of Sun Microsystems computer documentation, we find that while better results are seen when the PBSMT system is seeded with GIZA++ word- and phrasebased data compared to EBMT marker-based sub-sentential alignments, in general improvements are obtained …
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Collaborative learning in Open Source Software (OSS) communities: The dynamics and challenges in networked learning environments
The proliferation of web based technologies has resulted in new forms of communities and organizations with enormous implications for design of learning and education. This thesis explores learning occurring within open source software (OSS) communities. OSS communities are a dominant form of …