In part 1 of this two-part article, the E-Commerce Times explored Linux’ potential to win market share from Solaris, Sun’s proprietary version of Unix, as Linux is used to power ever more ...

Sun Microsystems, Inc., a leading contributor to the open source community, today previewed a new feature of the Solaris 10 OS, code named Project Janus. This new technology will allow customers to ...

The company is continuing its effort to integrate Linux interfaces into its Solaris OS, a move that would make it easier to bring programs based on Linux to Solaris machines. Stephen Shankland worked ...

Eight days into his tenure at Sun, newly minted Chief Operating Platforms Officer Ian Murdock took the stage at the SDForum event, "Platform 2.0: The Next Generation" in Santa Clara. The founder of ...

Oracle may end up merging the best of OpenSolaris with Linux once it takes control of Sun Microsystems, but it is unlikely to kill off Sun’s widely used Solaris OS, analysts said. On a conference call ...

Sun Microsystems has quietly begun seeking official open-source status for a new software license that likely will be used to govern its Solaris operating system. But the license may inhibit ...

"When Solaris 10 goes GA [general availability], it will represent the most significant release by Sun of any kindhardware or softwarein 10 years," said Marc Maselli, president of Back Bay ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

In this episode of eSpeaks, Jennifer Margles, Director of Product Management at BMC Software, discusses the transition from traditional job scheduling to the era of the autonomous enterprise. eSpeaks’ ...

What defines an operating system isn’t a geeky label or a collection of ramblings from the mouths of its community members. Nor is it some empty and pointless certification offered up by an obscure ...

Setting up the perfect enterprise server system architecture seemed pretty straightforward just a few years ago. “You went with [Sun Microsystems’] Solaris for the OS, put Oracle on top of Solaris for ...