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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

After nearly a year’s delay, Sun Microsystems Inc. has released software designed to let its Solaris operating system run Linux applications without any modification. The software, formerly called ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. After over a years delay, Solaris is getting some ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. is developing new code for its Solaris operating system that will make it easier for users to run Linux applications on Solaris. The software, code-named project Janus, is ...

While continuing its recent embrace of Linux and the Intel architecture, Sun Microsystems nonetheless remains committed to its own Sparc chip architecture and Solaris Unix operating system. The ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems will build software into its forthcoming Solaris 10 version of Unix to run Linux applications unchanged. The software, called Project Janus, will work on servers using ...

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 ...