Sun Microsystems Inc. last week announced an upgraded application server that will support multiple operating systems, raising the ante on an effort to broaden the use of its middleware beyond ...

Default installations of Sun's free Solaris operating system are sitting ducks for remote code execution attacks. According to an alert from iDefense, the flaw exists in the way Solaris implements the ...

Sun Microsystems is expected to announce Wednesday that it is bundling its application server software into its Solaris operating system, a move that could change the competitive landscape in a ...

The two technology vendors, who compete in the server hardware business, on Wednesday unveiled the expansion of a multiyear partnership agreement under which HP will distribute and provide technical ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. has a busy week planned for the LinuxWorld conference next month. First up, Sun is expected to release its first general-purpose server, code-named Big Bear, to run the Linux ...

This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. Sun also continued to expand its systems portfolio to include AMD Opteron ...

Big Blue will create versions of its server software for Sun's operating system and will support Java for an additional 10 years. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Dana's post on the Sun & IBM deal has two very interesting statements: "This is part of Sun’s exit strategy from the server business." And: "In many ways, Sun is becoming Red Hat." On the conference ...

MENLO PARK, Calif.--New technology built in to Sun Microsystems' new operating system is key to the company's long-term strategy for making collections of computers act like a single, mammoth machine.

Back in the excitingly heady days of the dot-com bubble, the rivalry between Sun and Microsoft was one of the highlights. Sun's famous motto "The Network is the Computer" threatened to make ...

Solaris 10 is nothing like Solaris 9. When it comes to support for x86 processors, that’s good. It’s been two years since InfoWorld reviewed Solaris 9 x86, and since then Sun’s flagship OS has been ...

Oracle has released a beta version of Solaris 11.2. But does Solaris and the Sparc server platform have a future? Oracle said the new operating system has been built as a modern cloud platform to ...