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VMware Workstation 8.0.3

VMware Workstation 8.0.3

...simultaneously on a single PC. Users can run Windows, Linux, NetWare, or Solaris x86 in fully networked, portable virtual machines - no rebooting or hard drive... Read more

3 May, 2012

MySQL fork Drizzle gets general release

...take that choice," reads the Drizzle documentation. Drizzle7 is compatible with Sparc, Solaris x86, Mac OS X and Linux. Ubuntu 11.04, also known as... Read more

17 March, 2011 by Jack Clark
Scrollout F1 20120305

Scrollout F1 20120305

...this solution can be deployed on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris x86. Scrollout F1 is designed to secure any existing email servers without... Read more

15 March, 2012

Sun gives new Solaris away

Sun Microsystems is giving away copies of its Solaris x86 operating system for evaluation purposes, in an effort to get the... Read more

16 December, 2003 by Michael Kanellos

What lies ahead for OpenSolaris?

...profit from existing open source software. For example, an upcoming version of Solaris x86 is likely to use GRUB -- the Grand Unified Bootloader software that... Read more

25 January, 2005 by Stephen Shankland

Sun CEO: Volume will drive value

...interview. "When it finally came to its senses, it reinstated development of Solaris x86 in 2003 and introduced an x64 product range in 2005, after... Read more

30 August, 2007 by Eileen Yu

Sun goes big with blade servers

...the time is right for multiprocessor x86 servers. Sun believes that with Solaris, x86 machines have a reliable operating system that can gracefully handle otherwise... Read more

11 July, 2006 by Colin Barker

German Linux migration not a taxing decision

...to the regional tax office in Hanover. The systems are moving from Solaris x86 version 8, which the organisation has been running since 2002. The... Read more

9 June, 2006 by Peter Judge

Lighting a fire under Solaris

Sun is rolling out a raft of features to give Solaris a new edge over Linux, but it still has its work cut out for it Read more

26 April, 2006 by Stephen Shankland

Sun makes peace with the Linux world

...brought the x86 version of Solaris to the brink of death. As Solaris x86's star ascended, Linux's descended at the Santa Clara, California... Read more

13 September, 2005 by Stephen Shankland

VMware Workstation 5

...run complete, unmodified operating systems -- including Windows, Linux, Novell NetWare and Sun Solaris x86 -- and application software in the virtual machine, just as you would... Read more

10 May, 2005 by Christian Harris

Sun plans trading floor for computing power

...reach corners of the Internet. And Sun's CPU-hour based on Solaris x86 would be likely to have limited interest for a customer that... Read more

4 February, 2005 by Stephen Shankland

Solaris code due today

The first piece of Solaris source code will be released today, but it will be several months before all the code is in the open Read more

25 January, 2005 by Stephen Shankland

What Torvalds really thinks of Solaris

...do you think about the x86 move and the new Solaris features?Solaris/x86 is a joke, last I heard. [It has] very little support... Read more

21 December, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

VMware Workstation 4.5.2

...6 series have been improved, and you can now install and run Solaris x86 Platform Edition 9 (experimental) and 10 beta (experimental). Finally, like Windows... Read more

22 November, 2004 by Christian Harris

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