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Lighting a fire under Solaris

April 24, 2006 Two significant upgrades are coming to Solaris this year, but Linux remains a fearsome rival. TAGS: Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., x86 processor, OpenSolaris, x86 server, Intel x86, Linux, Sun Sparc, AMD Opteron, R&D, server, open source, AMD, IBM Corp., operating system

Sun to set Solaris free, after a fashion

November 15, 2004 Operating system to come at no charge for servers with x86 processors. But the bug fixes will cost you. TAGS: Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Red Hat Inc., Sun Solaris 10, open-source programmer, IBM AIX, Intel x86, x86 processor, open source, AMD Opteron, free, Linux, bug fix, pricing, software company, support

Sun's next goal: A Linux ecosystem

February 8, 2006 A top exec says Sun is "dead serious" about an open-source push for its Sparc chips. Critics say it's trying to save an endangered species. TAGS: Sun Sparc, BSD, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, ecosystem, Sun UltraSPARC, Linux, x86 processor, Jonathan Schwartz, software company, open source, AMD Opteron, IBM Corp., president, AMD, server

SGI's Unix variant fading into history

September 8, 2006 Silicon Graphics to stop selling computers using MIPS chips and Irix operating system at end of 2006. TAGS: Silicon Graphics Inc., SGI Unix, SCO Group Inc., Unix, Intel Itanium, SGI Irix, Compaq Tru64 UNIX, HP PA-RISC, HP-UX, x86 processor, intellectual property, Sun Solaris, variant, IBM Corp., acquisition, Sun Microsystems Inc.
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