Oracle’s assimilation of Sun is moving forward, but there are still some unanswered questions about what the database giant will do with Sun’s diverse assortment of technologies. Some of Sun’s more ...

Sun on Monday announced the availability of a prototype of OpenSolaris for IBM's System z mainframes, the first time the open-source operating system has been available in a mainframe environment. The ...

Sun has released the first fruits of a new, more Linux-like attempt to make something useful from its open-source Solaris effort. Sun Microsystems has released the first results of a project to give ...

Sun and OpenSolaris.org on Monday released the first publicly available version of the OpenSolaris operating system since work on the project began in 2005. The operasting system, which is a single ...

Sun is set to launch the latest version of OpenSolaris, tuning it for the enterprise with a new support contract, processor support, and networking and storage technology. Sun, which is in the process ...

Sun Microsystems is touting the growth of its one-year-old open source project OpenSolaris, indicating the open code effort for its formerly closed Solaris operating system has drawn thousands of ...

Rivalry between different derivatives of OpenSolaris has already begun, two weeks after Sun Microsystems' initial code release. There are currently two OpenSolaris distributions: Sun Microsystems' ...

"OpenSolaris is a massive advancement for OS development and deployment," noted Stephen Lau, an OpenSolaris Governing Board member. "It combines the strong foundation of Solaris technologies and tools ...

Oracle Corp. may end up merging the best features of OpenSolaris with Linux once it takes control of Sun Microsystems Inc., but it is unlikely to kill off Sun’s widely used Solaris operating system, ...