As the pennies start to fall in the Oracle/Sun merger we're seeing a lot of fear and ignorance getting expressed as corporate confusion, insensitivity, and general silliness - the company's websites, ...

The enterprise server market belongs to Linux now. Clouds, web-servers, you name it, Linux runs it. One of the biggest reasons for this remains that Linux is cheaper than the alternatives. But that ...

Setting up the perfect enterprise server system architecture seemed pretty straightforward just a few years ago. “You went with [Sun Microsystems’] Solaris for the OS, put Oracle on top of Solaris for ...

A threat actor is compromising telecommunications companies and targeted financial and professional consulting industries using an Oracle flaw. A previously known threat group, called UNC1945, has ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

There's more noise about Solaris competing with Linux over at slashdot. I can understand the argument that Sun should direct their efforts to Linux. You know, Peace, Love, Linux. But which business ...

All of our backend processing has been running on Sun/Oracle Sparc systems under Solaris 8-11 for a number of years. In an effort to get out from under the pricey Oracle environment, we've recently ...

In doing some reporting for Sun’s Solaris 10 announcement Monday, I asked some analysts for their thoughts on Sun’s overall Solaris vs. Linux strategy and if the Sun-Microsoft deal, signed earlier ...

The source code for Oracle’s Solaris 11 operating system is now out in the open for anyone to peruse and compile, thanks to a furtive posting of a compressed archive that has been mirrored across ...

In part 1 of this two-part article, the E-Commerce Times explored Linux’ potential to win market share from Solaris, Sun’s proprietary version of Unix, as Linux is used to power ever more ...