Sun Microsystems Inc. is adding an advanced, more powerful 128-bit ZFS file system, new virtualization technologies and the Postgres open-source database to its Solaris 10 Unix operating system, as ...

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 ...

During VMworld 2007, Sun Microsystems, Inc. previewed its new software offering that helps to provide a more secure and manageable virtual desktop environment. Installed on the company's Solaris ...

Only a few days ago, Transitive Corporation announced the release of QuickTransit for the Solaris operating system on SPARC to Solaris on x86/64 systems. If you aren't familiar with Transitive or ...

On November 9, Oracle officially launched Solaris 11, the latest generation of the operating system it acquired with Sun Microsystems. Oracle is hyping the latest version of Solaris as the "first ...

Some IT users may question the need for running Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Solaris operating system on IBM’s Power processor — something the chip wasn’t designed for. But for Solaris developer Dennis ...

While the Unix operating systems Solaris and HP-UX are still in active development, they’re not particularly popular anymore and are mostly relegated to some enterprise and data center environments ...

Sun Microsystems has reversed a decision to stop allowing scrutiny of the underpinnings of its Solaris operating system. When Sun released Solaris 8 in January 2000, the company tried to tap into some ...