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.

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 ...

Sun is scheduled to hold a press conference Tuesday to show good faith and demonstrate its commitment to open source the bulk of Solaris 10 by making DTrace, or dynamic tracing utility, available ...

Sources familiar with the company's plans told CRN at JavaOne 2004 that Sun is not going to simply open up bits and pieces of the millions of lines of code in Solaris, Sun's popular Unix-based ...

Sun Microsystems on Tuesday is releasing a slate of technologies as part of OpenSolaris, the open source version of the Solaris 10 operating system. Technologies including the kernel and networking ...