Sun Microsystems has begun releasing an update for Solaris 8, its version of the Unix operating system, that can dish out Web pages faster and is easier to manage, the company said. Solaris 8 update ...

Sun Microsystems releases an update to its Unix-based operating system that includes, for the first time, the GNOME open-source graphical interface. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

WASHINGTON — At its quarterly product-launch announcement here last week, Sun Microsystems Inc. touted the fact that there have been 1.3 million downloads of ...

Oracle praised the Solaris operating system when it agreed to acquire its creator, Sun Microsystems , but the actual beauty of this fine piece of engineering was left unexplained. Here's a look at the ...

The company takes 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. Stephen Shankland worked ...

Sun Microsystems has revealed that the next release of its Solaris operating system will contain enhanced security features developed through the company's close ties with the US military and ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. has a busy week planned for the LinuxWorld conference next month. First up, Sun is expected to release its first general-purpose server, code-named Big Bear, to run the Linux ...

Oracle has released a beta version of Solaris 11.2. But does Solaris and the Sparc server platform have a future? Oracle said the new operating system has been built as a modern cloud platform to ...

Oracle introduced the biggest update to its Solaris operating system in nearly a decade Wednesday. By all accounts it was a classy event, held at Gotham Hall in New York. We can't tell you much about ...