Solaris has been Sun Microsystems’s bread-and-butter Unix system since 1992. While Unix platforms such as Solaris now are up against the open source Linux juggernaut, Sun maintains it has the ...

Sun Microsystems, the US software company with a centre in Dublin, announced last week it was going to offer its new Solaris 10 version of Unix free next year, and will also make it open source. These ...

The Solaris 9 update released Wednesday, the sixth update since Solaris 9 shipped in 2002, is certified for the Sun Fire V20z server, which uses an optimized version of Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron ...

Sun Microsystems announced that it will provide free copies of its Solaris Unix-based operating system for noncommercial use. Targets for the free licenses include students, researchers, and other ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. By Sean Michael Kerner In the modern world of ...

28.11.2007 - Almost two thirds of Irish IT experts say the main motivation for migrating to the Linux operating system from UNIX for use in servers is cost, according to a recent survey from Novel's ...

Oracle executives talked up on Thursday the planned Solaris 11 release due in 2011, with the Unix OS upgrade offering advancements in availability, security, and virtualization. The OS will feature ...

Microsoft's NT is being left behind in market share stakes. The latest version of Sun flagship operating system, the 64-bit Solaris 7, has hit the streets amid claims that Unix is extending its market ...