Sun Microsystems is bundling its application server software into its Solaris operating system in a move that could change the competitive landscape in a lucrative market. Later on Wednesday, company ...

Sun Microsystems said Tuesday that its Solaris 10 operating system would soon be available on an open-source basis, a move the company hopes will help counter the perception that its technology is too ...

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Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Lack of funding may force free software portal Blastwave, one of the only sources for pre-packaged Solaris software, to close its doors. Since 2002, the portal has been bundling publicly available ...

Start-up Trigence last week announced that its application virtualization software, which can run in VMware virtual machine environments, now runs on Solaris. Trigence virtualizes applications across ...

The momentum for Solaris on x86-based computers is picking up with Sun’s announcement that several software vendors have decided to support the operating system, which holds more than 50% of the ...

After its recent acquisition of Sun, enterprise software vendor Oracle began making some significant changes to Solaris licensing policies. Solaris 10, the latest stable version of Sun’s UNIX ...