Solaris has been Sun Microsystems’s bread-and-butter Unix system since 1992. While Unix platforms such as Solaris now are up against the open source Linux juggernaut, Sun maintains it has the ...

Sun Microsystems, the US software company with a centre in Dublin, announced last week it was going to offer its new Solaris 10 version of Unix free next year, and will also make it open source. These ...

Sun Microsystems announced that it will provide free copies of its Solaris Unix-based operating system for noncommercial use. Targets for the free licenses include students, researchers, and other ...

You’ve heard of LAMP, the popular open-source infrastructure stack featuring the Linux operating system, the Apache Web server, MySQL’s database, and the Perl, Python and PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) ...

Without a doubt, one of the most interesting features of Solaris 10 is its ability to establish numerous virtual systems on a single Solaris box — a concept known as “zones”. This radically innovative ...

28.11.2007 - Almost two thirds of Irish IT experts say the main motivation for migrating to the Linux operating system from UNIX for use in servers is cost, according to a recent survey from Novel's ...

The Solaris 9 update released Wednesday, the sixth update since Solaris 9 shipped in 2002, is certified for the Sun Fire V20z server, which uses an optimized version of Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. By Sean Michael Kerner In the modern world of ...

In a twist of irony, the Unix platform celebrates its 40th birthday this year, as does the man whose work probably has done more to diminish the trendiness of Unix than anyone else: Linux founder ...