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 ...

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 ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

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 is touting the growth of its one-year-old open source project OpenSolaris, indicating the open code effort for its formerly closed Solaris operating system has drawn thousands of ...

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 ...

The good features in OpenSolaris come from its parent, Solaris. There are new features in networking, storage and virtualisation. For the individual user, there is a good system of creating system ...

Sun on Monday announced the availability of a prototype of OpenSolaris for IBM's System z mainframes, the first time the open-source operating system has been available in a mainframe environment. The ...

Rivalry between different derivatives of OpenSolaris has already begun, two weeks after Sun Microsystems' initial code release. There are currently two OpenSolaris distributions: Sun Microsystems' ...

“OpenSolaris is a massive advancement for OS development and deployment,” noted Stephen Lau, an OpenSolaris Governing Board member. “It combines the strong foundation of Solaris technologies and tools ...

Sun and OpenSolaris.org on Monday released the first publicly available version of the OpenSolaris operating system since work on the project began in 2005. The operasting system, which is a single ...

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, ...