Sun Microsystems Inc. hopes that open-source Solaris will draw in new developers, new users and new growth opportunities. But the initial focus of the initiative may be more prosaic: device drivers.

Sun chose the human touch when it introduced more than 5 million lines of Solaris source code onto the Net. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital ...

Firm is expected to start sharing some source code of the OS and to detail its OpenSolaris plan on Tuesday. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital ...

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Sun got closer to finally lifting the shades on the source code for its vaunted Solaris Unix-based operating system last week. The vendor said it would have Solaris code released to the Open Source ...

Sun Microsystems officially started down the path to an open-source version of Solaris on Tuesday with a partial release of source code which ultimately will be OpenSolaris. Sun also launched ...

The company will open source Solaris Cluster 3.2 so developers can add high-availability and failover to applications Two years after it first offered open source code for Solaris, Sun Wednesday said ...

SAN FRANCISCO: Sun Microsystems Inc. has said it will start publishing the source code for its Solaris operating system used to run large computer centers. The computer maker hopes the free software ...

The source code for Oracle’s Solaris 11 operating system is now out in the open for anyone to peruse and compile, thanks to a furtive posting of a compressed archive that has been mirrored across ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems is planning the bold move of releasing the source code of its Solaris operating system, but those eager for details of the plan may have to wait until early 2005. The ...

Sun Microsystems chose to employ the human touch when it introduced more than 5 million lines of Solaris source code onto the Internet on Tuesday. Sun also is using fashionable software to further the ...