Sun is set to launch the latest version of OpenSolaris, tuning it for the enterprise with a new support contract, processor support, and networking and storage technology. Sun, which is in the process ...

Oracle's assimilation of Sun is moving forward, but there are still some unanswered questions about what the database giant will do with Sun's diverse assortment of technologies. Some of Sun's more ...

Sun has released the first fruits of a new, more Linux-like attempt to make something useful from its open-source Solaris effort. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

The OpenSolaris project, which has been slowly gaining momentum over the past year, issued its first official release last week. Designed with an emphasis on usability and easy installation, ...

Sun Microsystems and the OpenSolaris community it created a few years ago have officially released the Unix-based OpenSolaris operating system into the wild. The two organizations shared the news at ...

Sun and the OpenSolaris community are launching Monday the official first version of the open-source OpenSolaris operating system, which has only been available in pre-release versions for developers ...

Don't expect to see key features of OpenSolaris showing up in the Linux kernel, said a top Linux maintainer. At his LinuxWorld opening keynote, Andrew Morton made it very clear that the appointment of ...

Oracle Corp. may end up merging the best features of OpenSolaris with Linux once it takes control of Sun Microsystems Inc., but it is unlikely to kill off Sun’s widely used Solaris operating system, ...

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 ...