Oracle is facing three more months of scrutiny from European regulators over its intent to buy software and hardware manufacturer Sun Micrsystems. But, while the approval for the deal lingers, Sun hardware sales tank as customers are unsure what Oracle has planned for the division, with many fearing it will be sold o... |
11 September 2009
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Sun Microsystems announced today a new release of its OpenSolaris distribution. "Today marks the release of OpenSolaris 2009.06, the third release of the OpenSolaris Operating System. We've shifted gear, bringing you a new set of features right to your door, from the desktop to the data center." said Glynn Foste... |
1 June 2009
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Two days ago, Sun Microsystems announced the second stable release of its OpenSolaris project. Not only is this release much better, faster and powerful than the previous one, OpenSolaris 2008.05 (announced at the beginning of May 2008), but it also includes all the latest technologies and applications, such as OpenO... |
4 December 2008
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The perpetual face-off between operating systems certainly goes deeper than the shell, and in this context, a critical aspect of such a comparison is a "measuring contest" involving the core of the platforms. Diomidis Spinellis, from the Department of Management Science and Technology, Athens University of Economics ... |
19 May 2008
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The final version of the OpenSolaris operating system was released a few days ago and it brings a brand new Image Packaging System (IPS), ZFS as the default filesystem, and DTrace enabled packages so you can keep an eye on everything and squeeze the juice out of your system. The powerful bash shell is one of the GNU ... |
7 May 2008
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OpenSolaris, the operating system created by Sun Microsystems, has finally reached its first stable release, 2008.05. I think this is one of the most awaited operating systems by developers, sysadmins and users who are interested in developing and improving operating systems. OpenSolaris 2008.05 comes packed with fea... |
5 May 2008
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Windows Vista, Linux and Solaris, three of the operating systems applauded in different contexts for the high level of security they deliver can all be infected by the same piece of malware. MSIL.Yakizake is a cross-platform worm that will infect not only Vista, Linux and Solaris but also Windows 98, Windows 95, Wind... |
5 October 2007
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Microsoft and Sun have tied the knot for Windows Server on Sun x64 systems, as the result of the two companies expanding their strategic alliance. The new partnership is essentially focused on two aspects, making Sun a Windows Server OEM and the continuation of Windows Server deployments on Sun x64 systems. In this c... |
12 September 2007
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The business partnership between IBM and Sun Microsystems could be a lifesaver for the Solaris developing company that has just currently recovered from a long string of bad years. The partnership is all about running the Solaris operating system that is developed by Sun on top of x86 compatible hardware and not on t... |
20 August 2007
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IBM is very well known as a producer and vendor of servers and associated services and the big blue company may very well be the most important player on the server and mainframe market field offering to enterprise and corporate customers a large selection of systems ranging from x86 compatible ones to supercomputers... |
17 August 2007
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According to a recent post on Yahoo! News, Sun has serious intentions of releasing binaries for its OpenSolaris Unix platform by 2008 during a so called Project Indiana. As Ian Murdock, Sun's chief OS strategist and a former CTO of the Linux Foundation, mentioned, this movement comes as a way of increasing the ... |
16 July 2007
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In the server business market, Sparc processors have been around since the dawn of ages, but there have always been other competitors that took away from the processors' pride, there was IBM's Power PCs, Intel's Xeon and AMD's Opteron processors that put out a good fight, just enough for people to... |
17 April 2007
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