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Sun focus may lead Tadpole into calmer waters
News Always best known for its ruggedised mobile PCs, Tadpole plans to cancel all Intel-based products and concentrate on units based on Sun's Sparc processor and running the Solaris flavour of Unix. Only a fraction of Solaris appications actually run...
[February 11, 1998, 16:28]
Sun hones blade-server range
News Sun's Opteron-specific version of Solaris will be available by 1 July, 2004, Jonathan Schwartz, executive vice president for software at Sun, said in an interview. The shift will let Sun blades run Linux as well as Sun's Solaris operating system.
[December 3, 2003, 14:00]
Linux server market to be 'worth $9bn by 2008'
News The results highlight the spread of the operating system, a relatively new competitor to Unix versions such as Sun's Solaris and to Microsoft Windows. The top four server sellers -- IBM, HP, Sun and Dell -- all support Linux, though Sun steers...
[December 7, 2004, 8:25]
Windows Server 2003 hits the streets
News Windows Server 2003 passes Solaris 9 Mon 14 April: Microsoft's upcoming Windows Server 2003 may not have launched yet, but it is already used for hosting more Web sites than Sun's year-old Solaris 9 Windows Server 2003, now officially launched, is...
[April 24, 2003, 16:04]
UNIX is of course far more than just Linux
Blog Step forward our friends at Sun Microsystems and Solaris. It would be patently daft to prematurely bury Solaris and I stand corrected. Where this leaves UNIX is still an interesting question, surely - Solaris vs Red Hat vs SuSE versus non...
[June 24, 2008, 12:26]
Adobe takes Macs out of the Frame
News The application will continue to be available for Windows and for Sun Microsystems' Solaris version of Unix. The majority has been on Windows and Solaris for a while -- that's kind of been the trend. Adobe Systems announced on Tuesday that it plans...
[March 24, 2004, 11:05]
Sun to ship Microsoft OS on servers
News In particular, the two companies said they will ensure that Solaris works well as a "guest" with Microsoft's virtualisation technology and Windows works well in a virtualised Solaris environment. Last month, IBM said that it will ship Solaris on...
[September 13, 2007, 17:37]
US Report: Sun carries out sweeping changes
News Gone is SunSoft, to be replaced by the new Solaris software division headed by John McFarlane, who will oversee the Solaris operating environment for SPARC and X86, PC-interoperability and messaging/mail.
[April 24, 1998, 7:56]
Bulletproof your apps by following this five-step testing process
White Papers The author offers the example of a backdoor security problem with early versions of Solaris: In the early 1990s, Solaris users were able to gain root access by logging in as a normal user and pressing [Ctrl]K twice.
[May 17, 2006, 1:00]
Sun's ongoing war with Microsoft
News The Java footprint on Solaris is "rather large" and even though there are significant developer productivity advantages to using Java (as compared to C and C++), "its implementation on Solaris makes it difficult to deliver reliable applications.
[February 25, 2003, 8:38]
Adobe Flash exploit could log keystrokes
News In versions 7.0.69.0 and earlier running on Linux and Solaris, malicious attackers could exploit an error in the interaction between the Flash Player and certain browsers. Adobe recommends that 9.0.45.0 users upgrade to 9.0.47.0 for Windows, Mac...
[July 13, 2007, 16:34]
Sun christens its power-saving processor
Talkback There has not been the possibility to truly consolidate a single data center down to fewer servers until Solaris 10 and UltraSPARC T1. With technology like this, there is no need for a multiple blade servers - now a virtual blade gets a dedicated...
[November 16, 2005, 23:27]
Fujitsu to unveil 128-CPU server
News But because its servers run Sun's Solaris operating system, Fujitsu Technology's market overlaps with Sun's, the top Unix-server seller. Fujitsu Technology said in a statement that Sun's Solaris Hardware Partners Group has tested and fully...
[July 12, 2001, 12:33]
OpenSolaris comes to the mainframe
News The company said the release marks the first time Solaris features such as the Zettabyte File System (ZFS) and the Solaris Containers virtualisation system have been available on a mainframe. The OpenSolaris project was introduced in 2005 as a way...
[November 3, 2008, 16:32]
Oracle to buy Sun for $7.4bn
News The enterprise application specialist also picks up the Solaris operating system, described by the companies as the "leading" platform for Oracle's database products. Oracle will now be able to optimise its database for the high-end features of...
[April 20, 2009, 15:18]
Sun woos pundits with fresh technology
News Yen said Sun is better positioned to accommodate a technology such as Niagara because Solaris can manage the schedules of more than 200 threads today -- the number a top-end Sun Fire 15K server accommodates with the new UltraSparc IV.
[February 25, 2003, 7:33]
Sun releases UK blade prices, defends SPARC
News The Intel blades will run Linux or Sun's Solaris, and the SPARC blades will run Solaris. Sun has issued UK prices for the mixed-processor blade servers it released on Monday, and defended the role of SPARC in a market sector that has gone...
[February 11, 2003, 12:56]
Wal-Mart starts selling Sun's Linux PCs
News Software called Project Janus will let programs for Linux on x86 run unmodified on Solaris on x86, said John Loiacono, senior vice president of Sun's operating platforms group. But it's not just a Linux strategy: the company's Linux-based Java...
[March 31, 2004, 9:45]
Oracle wades into open source forum
News Oracle, meanwhile, will port Oracle 8i to Linux, although Walsh said the Solaris port will come first. Meanwhile, Netscape vice president John Paul said Linux has the most momentum of all the operating systems, despite Microsoft's marketing push...
[November 11, 1998, 9:23]
Hotmail upgrade burns up on reentry
News Hotmail originally ran on Solaris servers made by Microsoft archrival Sun Microsystems. Since purchasing the site, Microsoft has switched over to Windows 2000 on a "large portion of the site, with some legacy systems from when we bought the site...
[July 19, 2001, 14:27]
