Oracle has announced the availability of Oracle Solaris 11, which the company says can meet the security, performance and scalability requirements of cloud-based ...

Sun, which has never completely rebounded from the tech collapse in 2001, hopes the no-cost of Solaris 10 will not only attract customers but also expand the number of developers who write programs ...

Sun Microsystems has fleshed out an updated release of its Solaris operating system. After deciding upon the structure and nuances that would make up Solaris 10, Sun homed in on supplying its ...

The news that OpenSolaris is being discontinued came in an internal memo to Oracle developers late last week that was leaked to the OpenSolaris mailing list and posted online Friday. The memo said ...

When it comes to Unix, Sun Microsystems’ Solaris operating system shines on the company’s 64-bit SPARC processors. Unfortunately, the picture is less bright for the version of Solaris written for ...

While the Unix operating systems Solaris and HP-UX are still in active development, they’re not particularly popular anymore and are mostly relegated to some enterprise and data center environments ...

The company is continuing its effort to integrate Linux interfaces into its Solaris OS, a move that would make it easier to bring programs based on Linux to Solaris machines. The server seller is ...

After nearly a year’s delay, Sun Microsystems Inc. has released software designed to let its Solaris operating system run Linux applications without any modification. The software, formerly called ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems will build software into its forthcoming Solaris 10 version of Unix to run Linux applications unchanged. The software, called Project Janus, will work on servers using ...