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Sun's Solaris to get that Linux feeling?
News In an effort to spur adoption of Solaris, Sun Microsystems has begun a project code-named Indiana to try to give its operating system some of the trappings of Linux. However, Schwartz has talked frequently of the possibility of releasing Solaris... [10 May 2007]
Sun puts Debian founder on the payroll
News But the company afterward resurrected a nearly exterminated version of Solaris for x86 servers, where Linux is most popular, and McNealy predicted in 2005 that Solaris and Windows would be the "two clear survivors" in the operating system market. [20 Mar 2007]
Intel's Xeon back in the Sun
News As reported earlier, Sun will begin selling dual-processor Xeon servers in the first half of the year, and Intel will provide engineering resources to optimise Sun's Solaris operating system. Solaris is evolving as a mainstream operating system... [23 Jan 2007]
Sun set to bring back Intel's Xeon for servers
News In addition, Otellini plans to endorse the x86 version of Sun's Solaris operating system, elevating it to the mainstream status enjoyed by Windows and Linux. In addition, Intel will get rights to sell Solaris, sources said. [22 Jan 2007]
Sun touts 'Logical' Solaris update
News Sun Microsystems has updated its Solaris operating system with a feature that lets its newest Sparc-based servers run multiple copies of the Unix variant in separate partitions. The feature, called Logical Domains, or LDoms, is in Solaris 11/06... [16 Jan 2007]
Red Hat lines up next Linux shipment
News Xen lacks VMware's market power but the open source software is being incorporated as a standard feature of corporate versions of Linux and the x86 version of Sun Microsystems' Solaris. Reworking an operating system's foundation, as "hypervisors... [02 Jan 2007]
Sun pledges to open up Java
News Since Sun open sourced Solaris, the company's business related to the operating system has grown at a rate Schwartz hadn't seen before at Sun, he said. Open source advocates have urged Sun for years to open source the Java programming language but... [17 May 2006]
Torvalds issues new Linux kernel
News Though it typically runs Sun's Solaris operating system, Sun wants to build support for Linux as well. Linus Torvalds released a new Linux kernel on Monday that supports features in IBM's Cell processor, includes Oracle software for clustered... [22 Mar 2006]
Sun exec defects to Adobe
News Sun's server software business never produced products that achieved the popularity of rival offerings from BEA Systems and IBM, and its Solaris operating system lost market share to Linux. Loiacono, who took over as software head at Sun in 2004... [17 Mar 2006]
Sun tightens the security screw
News Sun introduced the Solaris 10 operating system last year, as an open-source offering. Sun Microsystems is expected to announce two security initiatives today, one introducing a form of encryption for its next-generation Sun Java System Web Server... [13 Feb 2006]
Sun mulls GPL 3 licence for Solaris
News Sun Microsystems is considering a dual-licensing move that could raise tantalising possibilities of open source co-operation between Linux and Sun's Solaris operating system but legal issues complicate the possibility. [31 Jan 2006]
Sun plugs five Java holes
News All the flaws affect the Java Runtime Environment, or JRE, in computers loaded with Linux, Microsoft Windows or Sun's own Solaris operating system. Sun Microsystems has fixed five security bugs in Java that expose computers running Linux, Solaris... [30 Nov 2005]
Red Hat showing strong growth
News One of Red Hat's chief competitors is Sun Microsystems, which develops the Solaris operating system and now its open source OpenSolaris relative. Red Hat sells annual support subscriptions for its flagship Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system... [29 Sep 2005]
'Linux 40 per cent cheaper than Windows'
News One report found Linux was 40 per cent cheaper overall than Windows, and 56 per cent cheaper than Unix based Solaris. One report, called TCO For Application Servers: Comparing Linux With Windows And Solaris, calculated the total cost of ownership... [02 Sep 2005]
Red Hat to fund free patents for open source
News Sun Microsystems released more than 1,600 patents for use with its open source Solaris operating system and promised to allow their use in other open source efforts. The threat of patent-infringement lawsuits has long dogged collaborative... [11 Aug 2005]
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