When I interviewed Sun chief engineer Rob Gingell last August, he hinted at a blurring of the lines between Linux and Solaris, if not an outright merger. Said Gingell: "Five years from now, when all ...

At a recent Sun Microsystems press event, Sun execs talked up plans to market the company’s Solaris Unix OS to startups and small-to-midsize businesses. “Open source is what [customers] want to go ...

In part 1 of this two-part article, the E-Commerce Times explored Linux' potential to win market share from Solaris, Sun's proprietary version of Unix, as Linux is used to power ever more ...

Sun Microsystems is guiding the spotlight away from a once-prominent feature of Solaris 10. The feature, code-named Janus and not yet released, lets Linux applications run on its Solaris operating ...

Sun Microsystems, Inc., a leading contributor to the open source community, today previewed a new feature of the Solaris 10 OS, code named Project Janus. This new technology will allow customers to ...

The company is continuing its effort to integrate Linux interfaces into its Solaris OS, a move that would make it easier to bring programs based on Linux to Solaris machines. The server seller is ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

For years, Sun Microsystems Inc. ignored Linux or dismissed it as just another Unix variant. But company officials are now talking bluntly about their failure to recognize the corporate IT push to low ...

The feature, code-named Janus and not yet released, lets Linux applications run on its Solaris operating system. Sun instead is emphasizing a related open-source alternative called Xen. Sun had touted ...

Setting up the perfect enterprise server system architecture seemed pretty straightforward just a few years ago. "You went with [Sun Microsystems'] Solaris for the OS, put Oracle on top of Solaris for ...