Sun and the OpenSolaris community are launching the first official release of Sun's open-source version of the Solaris operating system. Interested developers have had early preview versions to play ...

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, ...

Sun, of Santa Clara, Calif., on Monday said its OpenSolaris Operating System is now available for free download for developers to develop, test, troubleshoot, and deploy new Web services, ...

While Microsoft dominates in the server OS space, with inroads being made by Linux, Sun's Solaris soldiers on, now in its ninth iteration. Offering administrative improvements over Solaris 8, Solaris ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.-- After investing roughly $500 million and spending years of development time on its next-generation operating system, Sun Microsystems on Monday will announce an aggressive price for ...

On November 9, Oracle officially launched Solaris 11, the latest generation of the operating system it acquired with Sun Microsystems. Oracle is hyping the latest version of Solaris as the "first ...

WASHINGTON — At its quarterly product-launch announcement here last week, Sun Microsystems Inc. touted the fact that there have been 1.3 million downloads of Solaris 10 since the operating system was ...

Oracle has released its Solaris 11 operating system (OS), which the company previewed last month at the Oracle OpenWorld 2011 event in San Francisco. Solaris 11 provides built-in virtualization ...

N1, which Sun first disclosed last February, offers the ability to treat an entire data center of servers, storage and network computing equipment as if it were one superserver. The software will sit ...

ORLANDO, Fla.--Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy on Tuesday reiterated his company's plans to sell desktop PCs running Linux, and said the company is focusing on supplying "good enough" computing.