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Dell to carry Solaris 10 on PowerEdge servers

November 14, 2007 Under partnership between the two rivals, Dell will distribute Sun's OS on PowerEdge servers and provide support services. TAGS: Dell PowerEdge Server, Sun Solaris, Dell PowerEdge, Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris 10, support services, Dell, Intel x86, agreement, server, operating system, Linux, HP

Sun releases Solaris 10 for free

February 1, 2005 The server and software company begins offering Solaris 10 as a free download for those who register. TAGS: Sun Solaris, Sun Solaris 10, Sun Microsystems Inc., x86 processor, Linux, Unix, IBM Corp., Red Hat Inc., software company, open source, server, security, HP, operating system, Microsoft Windows

Sun seeks Solaris security badge

September 14, 2006 Solaris with Trusted Extensions, due later this year, is under evaluation for Common Criteria certification. TAGS: Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris 10, security, server, operating system

Worm targets Solaris telnet bug

February 28, 2007 A computer worm is using a recently disclosed flaw in Sun Microsystems' operating system to propagate. TAGS: Sun Solaris, computer worm, Sun Microsystems Inc., worm, flaw, bug, blog, password, monitor, operating system

Sun backs open-source database PostgreSQL

November 17, 2005 Company plans to distribute database and optimize it for Solaris. It also plans to include Xen virtualization, Linux compatibility next year. TAGS: Sun Solaris, OpenSolaris, Sun Solaris 10, Sun Microsystems Inc., PostgreSQL, open source, database, Linux, Oracle Corp., operating system

Sun modernizing Solaris start-up process

June 15, 2005 Revamped approach will be faster and more useful on a wide variety of computers, company promises. TAGS: Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., OpenSolaris, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, x86 processor, Novell Inc., blog, operating system, Linux, server

Major Solaris features slip to 2006

May 12, 2005 Sun delays release of ZFS and Janus, two major features the company has trumpeted as reasons to try its latest Solaris. TAGS: Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris 10, Linux, Unix, 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, support, software company, pricing

Sun hires Debian Linux founder

March 19, 2007 Ian Murdock, founder of Debian and several other Linux initiatives, now will work with Solaris and Linux. TAGS: Sun Solaris, Debian, Sun Microsystems Inc., Linux, founder, Ubuntu, chairman, open source, blog, operating system, server

Sun's Solaris now an option for IBM blades

October 31, 2005 Sun's Solaris 10 operating system will be a supported option for IBM's BladeCenter servers. TAGS: IBM eServer BladeCenter, Sun Solaris, blade, blade server, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., Jonathan Schwartz, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris 10, Intel Itanium, AMD Opteron, Intel Xeon, Intel x86, alliance, server, AMD

Sun extends olive branch to Red Hat

September 12, 2005 Sun Microsystems is being more accommodating toward Linux again, making room onstage for Red Hat at a server product launch. TAGS: Red Hat Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, Jonathan Schwartz, x86 server, Linux, Sun UltraSPARC, Scott McNealy, open source, server, Unix, operating system, AMD, HP, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Sun considers GPL for Solaris

November 14, 2006 If Sun switched its Unix version to the General Public License, it could permit code-swapping with Linux. TAGS: GPL, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., OpenSolaris, Jonathan Schwartz, Java, license, open source, Linux, possibility, operating system

Torvalds: A Solaris skeptic

December 21, 2004 The Linux leader calls the rival open-source operating system from Sun Microsystems a "joke." TAGS: Sun Solaris, Linus Torvalds, Sun Solaris 10, Linux, Sun Microsystems Inc., Intel x86, x86 processor, open source, programmer, leader, Unix, operating system

Sun to release first OpenSolaris tidbit Tuesday

January 25, 2005 Company will begin releasing its Solaris OS as open-source software, starting with a new performance analysis and debugging tool. TAGS: OpenSolaris, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris 10, open-source software, Linux, representative, IBM Corp., Unix, open source, AMD, operating system, Intel, server, HP

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, Intel x86, OpenSolaris, Linux, x86 server, Sun Sparc, AMD Opteron, open source, server, operating system, IBM Corp., AMD

Sun open-source license could mean Solaris-Linux barrier

December 2, 2004 New license likely will be used to govern Solaris OS. But it may inhibit cross-pollination between Solaris and Linux. TAGS: Sun Solaris, Open Source Initiative, open source, GPL, Sun Microsystems Inc., license, Linux, multiprocessor, intellectual property, Unix, developer, IBM Corp., operating system

Sun has second thoughts about Linux on Solaris

June 15, 2005 Downplays feature designed to let Linux apps run on Solaris. Instead emphasizes related open-source alternative called Xen. TAGS: Xen, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Linux, hypervisor, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Sun Solaris 10, open source, data center, AMD, operating system, Intel

Sun considers GPL 3 license for Solaris

January 30, 2006 But chances of cooperation between Solaris and Linux are clouded because Linux will remain under GPL 2. TAGS: Sun Solaris, Jonathan Schwartz, GPL, Linus Torvalds, Sun Microsystems Inc., GPL 3, Linux, open source, Xen, Linux kernel, blog, intellectual property, server, operating system, Dell, HP

Sun logs thousands of DTrace downloads

January 28, 2005 In its first 40 hours as publicly available source code, Sun's DTrace component of the Solaris 10 OS was downloaded 3,683 times, firm says. TAGS: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris 10, Sun Solaris, source code, operating system

Sun plans patent protection for open-source Solaris

November 18, 2004 Plans to provide umbrella from patent-infringement suits to outsiders using or developing the OS--a move to counter Linux. Sun posts early Java 6 code Photos: Sun execs talk tech TAGS: Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., intellectual property, SCO Group Inc., Scott McNealy, patent infringement, Linux, open source, Jonathan Schwartz, patent, Unix, open-source software, Red Hat Inc., protection, Java, IBM Corp.
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