Sun is seeing brand new customers for Solaris; “I think we’ve got a great future,” Boyle says. “I think Solaris is absolutely a great OS,” says Neil Wilson, a former Sun employee who ...

The reason Sun has to keep Solaris 9 for x86 on hold is because developing, marketing, launching, and supporting it would be a largely philanthropic effort. There aren't many companies left ...

Sun Microsystems is changing the way it produces a secure version of its Solaris operating system, a decision that will mark the end of the product known as the Trusted Solaris Operating Environment.

SAN FRANCISCO — When Sun Microsystems Inc. rolls out the latest overhaul of its flagship software for running computer networks today, executives are likely to tout enhancements such as ...

New technology in its Solaris operating system is critical for Sun to stave off other Unix sellers such as IBM and HP, and to encroach on the turf of IBM's higher-end servers.

Sun will begin the new pricing when it starts selling its new Solaris 10 version, scheduled to ship by the end of January, Loiacono said. The per-processor, per-year subscription will cost $120 ...

Sun is expected to offer its own Sun Linux distribution and Solaris 8 -- and possibly Solaris 9 -- on the Intel-based server code-named Big Bear.

Sun also plans to make Solaris open source, though it has not specified the terms of the license. Shares of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Sun closed unchanged at $3.94 on Nasdaq.

Sun Microsystems is sprucing up its Solaris 10 operating system with security and virtualization improvements. Yesterday’s release of Solaris 10 11/06 is intended to make Solaris the most secure ...

As deep as I was in Sun/Solaris from 2003 to 2010, i don’t feel big interest in going back there, those systems were slow and especially power hungry as hell. No much nostalgia neither.

Sun Microsystems has fulfilled its pledge to make its newest version of the Solaris operating system available for free. On Monday evening, the server and software company began offering Solaris ...

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