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US Report: Sun Makes Solaris Free... For Some
News Instead of paying $300 to $695 for client and server versions of Solaris 2.6, college types and developers who enjoy tinkering with code for the sake of tinkering can now download the software from Sun's Web site for free.
[August 13, 1998, 7:48]
Sun Delays Solaris Features
News Sun has delayed the release of two major features the company has trumpeted as reasons to try its latest version of the Solaris operating system. When Sun released Solaris 10 in January, it added several new features to the Unix variant.
[May 13, 2005, 9:35]
Sun Modernising Solaris Start-up Process
News Sun Microsystems is revamping the start-up process for its Solaris operating system, scrapping an awkward, elderly approach for one the company promises will be faster, more familiar and more useful on a wide variety of computers.
[June 16, 2005, 16:35]
Sun Floats Solaris Expansion
News Sun Microsystems, which has already resurrected its Solaris operating system for one processor architecture, is considering a further expansion to Intel's Itanium and IBM's Power chip families. Sun floated the Solaris expansion idea during a...
[July 21, 2004, 8:25]
Sun Gears Solaris For Linux Users
News In an effort to spur adoption of Solaris, Sun has begun a project code-named Indiana to try to give its operating system some of the trappings of Linux. It would solve Solaris's problems, ease people's transitions from Linux to Solaris, and save...
[May 10, 2007, 10:38]
Sun Gathers Solaris-Intel Commitments
News A number of companies are endorsing Sun Microsystems' promotion of Solaris on Intel-based servers. In addition, e-commerce software maker BEA Systems is evaluating the Solaris version, Verizon is using it, and chipmaker AMD and database-software...
[February 7, 2003, 8:27]
'We Will Open Source Solaris' - Sun
News Schwartz also emphasised that Sun will be turning up its engagement level with partners in bringing open-source Solaris to its users in future. On the subject of a probable licensing model for the open-source Solaris, John Loiacono, executive vice...
[June 2, 2004, 14:40]
Sun Delays Solaris 9 For Intel Chips
News Sun Microsystems on Tuesday delayed plans to release an Intel-compatible version of its forthcoming Solaris 9 operating system, the latest slight in a long and often edgy relationship between the two companies.
[January 9, 2002, 9:23]
Sun Releases Solaris-based Desktop Software
News Sun Microsystems has quietly released a version of its Java Desktop System software based on Solaris, a new step in the company's plan to try to transfer some of Linux's glory to its own operating system.
[October 14, 2004, 9:05]
Sun Partitions, Virtualises Solaris
News Sun has updated its Solaris operating system with a feature that lets its newest Sparc-based servers run multiple copies of the Unix variant in separate partitions. As reported, the feature catches Sun partway up with Unix server rivals Hewlett...
[January 16, 2007, 7:55]
Sun (almost) Opens Solaris
News Indeed, Sun Microsystems Inc.plans to put all its platform software -including Solaris- under a Community Source License, the company said this week. Sun has delayed announcing Solaris because it does not own all of Solaris's intellectual property...
[February 26, 1999, 12:04]
Optimizing Oracle's Siebel Applications For The Sun Platform, Solaris 10 OS, And UltraSPARC T1 Processor
White Papers Also presented in detail is information on tuning the Solaris Operating System (OS) tuning, Siebel 7.7 tuning, Oracle Database 10g server tuning, Sun storage tuning and Sun Java System Web Server tuning.
[September 11, 2007, 0:00]
Sun Gives New Solaris Away
News Sun Microsystems is giving away copies of its Solaris x86 operating system for evaluation purposes, in an effort to get the new software into as many hands as possible. Sun previously charged $20 (£11.45) for evaluation copies of Solaris x86, the...
[December 16, 2003, 8:35]
Sun Begins Open Source Solaris Era
News Sun Microsystems is expected to release Solaris as open source software Tuesday, a centrepiece of the company's plan to regain lost relevance and fend off rivals Red Hat, IBM and Microsoft. Sun has been working to make sure Solaris can be built...
[June 14, 2005, 10:25]
Sun Offers Rewards For Solaris Test-taking
News Sun Microsystems has taken additional steps in its effort to increase the hardware support that's needed to make a version of its Solaris operating system for Intel processors useful. Sun also signed on new partners, including Electronic Business...
[September 1, 2003, 9:15]
Sun's Blades Will Virtualise Solaris
News One difference with Sun's offering is that, while HP and IBM are promising to deliver computing power on tap from multi-vendor datacentres, Sun is noticeably quiet about the multi-vendor aspect, creating an impression of a Solaris-only solution...
[December 11, 2002, 9:57]
Sun Offers Gnome Test Drive For Solaris Users
News Continuing its drive to promote the Gnome desktop, Sun Microsystems today issued a preview release of Gnome 1.4 for its Solaris 8 operating environment. Leila Chucri, a product line manager at Sun, said this was "an introductory software package...
[May 23, 2001, 17:23]
Sun Microsystems Changes The Game: Introducing Solaris 10
White Papers Sun's quarterly Network Computing 04Q4 Web event will showcase the reliability and performance of the Solaris 10 OS. This webcast, hosted by Sun executives, unveils new products, technologies, and services from Sun Microsystems.
[November 14, 2004, 23:00]
Solaris Operating System And Linux Solutions From Sun
White Papers By offering the Solaris Operating System for both UltraSPARC and x86-based systems as well as Linux for x86-based systems, Sun gives companies the freedom of choice to make the trade-offs necessary to best meet their business needs.
[October 21, 2003, 0:00]
Implementing Sun Solaris On IBM BladeCenter Servers
White Papers The Solaris operating system from Sun Microsystems is an important platform for many IBM customers. It describes how to incorporate the latest patches to Solaris from Sun, plus updated drivers for the Ethernet and RAID devices in the blade servers.
[October 30, 2007, 23:00]
