In its latest regulatory filings Sun Microsystems has admitted to offences under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act - and could land new owner Oracle with a hefty fine.

Database specialist Oracle has purchased Sun Microsystems for its Java and Solaris technologies - but makes no mention of what will happen to MySQL.

Monty Widenius, creator of the open source database MySQL, has lambasted his superiors at Sun Microsystems over the premature release of MySQL 5.1.

Sun Microsystems is to lay off around 6,000 workers - or 18 percent of its total staff - in an attempt to return to profitability following a poor financial year.

In the first step towards publicly putting behind all of their differences, Sun will now ship its 64-bit servers with Windows Server 2003.

Microsoft had a reasonably poor year and Bill Gates is beginning to feel the heat at the moment. Could we see Microsoft go by the way side?