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Sun Solaris Operating Environment
White Papers This paper introduces the Sun™ Solaris™ operating environment, the Solaris family of servers, and Solaris software for developing, deploying, and managing an information network. A summary of the Solaris operating environment and a brief...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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 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 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 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 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]
'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 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]
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 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]
Tarantella Enterprise 3 Capacity And Scaling - Sun SPARC With Solaris 8
White Papers The tests were done with Sun SPARC hardware and Solaris 8 operating system using Tarantella Enterprise 3, version 3.10 software. Tests were performed by Tarantella engineers under controlled conditions at Sun Microsystems Performance Centre in...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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 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 (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]
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 OpenGL 1.2.3 For Solaris Implementation And Performance Guide
White Papers The Sun OpenGL 1.2.3 for Solaris OS Implementation and Performance Guide provides information on Sun's implementation of the OpenGL graphics library for the Solaris Operating Environment from Sun Microsystems, Inc.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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]
Tarantella Enterprise 3 Capacity And Scaling: Sun SPARC Server Hardware Solaris 8 Operating System
White Papers The tests were done with Sun SPARC hardware and Solaris 8 operating system using Tarantella Enterprise 3, version 3.10 software. Tests were performed by Tarantella engineers under controlled conditions at Sun Microsystems Performance Centre in...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Sun OpenGL 1.3 For Solaris Implementation And Performance Guide
White Papers The Sun OpenGL 1.3 for Solaris OS Implementation and Performance Guide provides information on Sun's implementation of the OpenGL graphics library for the Solaris Operating Environment from Sun Microsystems, Inc.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
