Sun Microsystems, the US software company with a centre in Dublin, announced last week it was going to offer its new Solaris 10 version of Unix free next year, and will also make it open source. These ...

Without a doubt, one of the most interesting features of Solaris 10 is its ability to establish numerous virtual systems on a single Solaris box — a concept known as “zones”. This radically innovative ...

Solaris has been Sun Microsystems’s bread-and-butter Unix system since 1992. While Unix platforms such as Solaris now are up against the open source Linux juggernaut, Sun maintains it has the ...

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 ...

28.11.2007 - Almost two thirds of Irish IT experts say the main motivation for migrating to the Linux operating system from UNIX for use in servers is cost, according to a recent survey from Novel's ...

Sun Microsystems announced that it will provide free copies of its Solaris Unix-based operating system for noncommercial use. Targets for the free licenses include students, researchers, and other ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. By Sean Michael Kerner In the modern world of ...