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 ...

Solaris is a key element of Oracle's "engineered systems" strategy that combines Oracle database, middleware and application software with Sun hardware to create turnkey systems. Solaris also powers ...

New license likely will be used to govern Solaris OS. But it may inhibit cross-pollination between Solaris and Linux. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the formal launch of the Unix OS upgrade, Sun President Jonathan Schwartz said the decision to offer customers a free right to use (RTU) license for Solaris 10 on commodity systems with up to four ...

Sun has ambitious plans for the commercial and open-source versions of its Solaris operating system, hoping to achieve for Solaris the kind of ubiquity already enjoyed by Java. To come close to ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. has ambitious plans for the commercial and open-source versions of its Solaris operating system, hoping to achieve for Solaris the kind of ubiquity already enjoyed by Java. To ...

At an executive gathering Wednesday, Sun Microsystems previewed the Solaris 10 operating system, the upcoming version of the company’s award-winning OS for systems based on UltraSPARC and x86 ...

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 ...