Sun Microsystems sunw of Palo Alto, Calif. is expected to announce near complete compatibility between Sun's Solaris operating system and the applications written for Linux, the ever-popular free ...

Linux backers claim Solaris is irrelevant; Sun of course disagrees Linux is enjoying growth, with a contingent of devotees too large to be called a cult following at this point. Solaris, meanwhile ...

Sun Microsystems plans to announce a free version of its Solaris operating system Monday, taking a page that Red Hat tore from its playbook in 2003. Anyone who registers with Sun will be able to ...

Sun released Solaris 9 Wednesday, along with a plan to integrate its application server software into the operating system. But a less obvious part of Solaris 9, a concept called "containers ...

Sun tried to slow, and even reverse, this trend in 2005 by offering Sun Solaris 10 free of charge. To make money, Sun expected to sell subscriptions to customers seeking support and defect fixes.

Solaris has been an iffy proposition since Oracle acquired Sun, but Oracle announced last month that you can download and use Solaris 11.4 CBE free for non-production use. Do you care?

“Sun’s belief here is that there are three operating systems left standing, still fully committed to by their respective vendors: Windows, Linux and Solaris,” Gall said.

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 ...

Sun announces that it will not release a version of Solaris 9 for network servers on the Intel platform--at least for the foreseeable future.

With more than 300 new product features, Sun officials called Solaris 9 the biggest upgrade in a decade.

The server and software company begins offering Solaris 10 as a free download for those who register.

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.