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Sun giving away Solaris for test drives
December 15, 2003
Sun Microsystems is offering free copies of its Solaris x86 operating system for evaluation purposes in an effort to get new software into as many hands as possible.
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Intel
Sun sales tactic targets Linux
August 31, 2004
If a salesperson sells Solaris on a non-Sun machine, "we pay them as if they sold the hardware," an exec says.
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Hyperion Solutions Corp.
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AMD
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server
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Intel
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IBM Corp.
Sun, Intel part ways on Solaris plans
July 21, 2000
The companies finally are seeing eye to eye on whether Sun's Solaris operating system should run on Intel's upcoming Itanium chip: Now both companies think it's a lousy idea.
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Intel
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Silicon Graphics Inc.
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eye
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HP
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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.
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OpenVZ ported to Sun Niagara servers
December 29, 2006
Linux can be subdivided into "containers" on Sun's newest Sparc servers, matching a feature Solaris already possesses.
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Sun plans Solaris subscription pricing
April 1, 2004
The new price model, intended to help the software maker compete against Red Hat's Linux operating system, is expected to be in place by the end of April.
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IBM Corp.
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Sun reclaims Apple exec for Solaris marketing
November 2, 2004
Sun Microsystems lures Tom Goguen from the Mac maker, a move that could intensify one corporate rivalry: hockey.
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Sun revamps Unix servers with UltraSparc IV+
September 20, 2005
The UltraSparc IV+ processor will double the performance of Sun's Unix servers. The chip, however, soon will face competition.
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Sun license gets open-source nod
January 19, 2005
The company has secured a crucial approval in its plan to make Solaris an open-source project, CNET News.com has learned.
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Sun, allies broaden open-source chip push
May 15, 2007
Two companies are working on derivatives of Sun's open-source Niagara processor; Sun plans to share Niagara 2's designs, too.
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Sun, Fujitsu to launch joint Sparc servers
April 17, 2007
Jointly designed servers, with 4 to 64 dual-core "Olympus" processors, were originally part of effort to keep Sparc from fading away. Photos: Sun's new enterprise servers
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Sun says UltraSparc V two chips in one
August 6, 2001
The company has only just started delivering its UltraSparc III processor, but already it has begun touting the split-personality features of its upcoming UltraSparc V chip.
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Schwartz ends first year at Sun with quarterly profit
April 24, 2007
The company reports net income of $67 million, but misses its revenue goal for the quarter because of server sales slowdown.
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Sun has software plans for rival servers
July 27, 2004
Company branches out from its proprietary ways with Java system for Windows and HP's flavor of Unix.
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New virtualization option coming to Sun servers
October 17, 2006
Logical Domains mean multiple independent copies of Solaris will run on the same Niagara server.
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Sun touts Opteron server, Linux desktop
November 17, 2003
Sun Microsystems brings AMD's Opteron into its server family and announces a deal in China that's expected to boost its Linux desktop software.
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China Standard Software Co.
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Sun, Intel square off over Itanium support
March 3, 2000
The two high-tech giants are in a high-stakes game of chicken in a debate about which company needs the other more in the lucrative e-commerce world.
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Texas Instruments Inc.
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Intel
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Silicon Graphics Inc.
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IBM Corp.
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family
Even with settlement, future cloudy for Sun
April 2, 2004
The server maker may have settled long-standing legal disputes with Microsoft, but it's still in the shadow of other major problems.
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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.
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Sun revenue up, but loss widens
January 24, 2006
The server maker's revenue climbs 17 percent, but its net loss widens and it misses revenue expectations.
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