solaris

  • Servers, Solaris and SPARC key to Oracle's growth 17/10/2009 02:39:00

    Investment in Open Office, MySQL and SPARC to continue, says Ellison
    Oracle's tilt at Sun Microsystems was opportunistic, Larry Ellison admitted to financial analysts yesterday, but Sun is now a critical component new five year growth targets that aim to more than double the company's sales to well over $50 billion.
  • HP's Blue Light Special: 85 per cent off HP-UX with Solaris trade-in 17/07/2009 08:01:00

    Hewlett-Packard looks to capitalize on Oracle's unclear plan for Sun's future
    With Sun Microsystems Inc. on the verge of being absorbed by Oracle Corp., one of its biggest longtime rivals, Hewlett-Packard Co., today announced plans to go after its customers with various migration deals and discounts.
  • OpenSolaris is becoming more like regular Solaris 01/06/2009 14:09:00

    Support deals are now the same for the open source and commercial versions of the OS; open source upgrade also adds Sparc support
    Lines are beginning to blur between the open source and commercial versions of the Sun Microsystems Solaris Unix operating system.
  • The downfall of Sun Microsystems 27/04/2009 08:48:00

    Dot-com bust, failure to embrace x86 processors ended Sun’s life as an independent company, analysts say
    Oracle's surprising US$7.4 billion deal to purchase Sun this week gives Larry Ellison and crew a big stake in the hardware market as well as control over Java and other well-known open source technologies. But it also spells the end of an independent Sun Microsystems, one of Silicon Valley's most prominent companies.
  • HP to distribute, support Sun's Solaris 26/02/2009 08:40:00

    HP has agreed to distribute and support Sun's Solaris operating system in a new multiyear partnership.
    Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems -- fierce competitors when it comes to hardware sales -- unveiled an expanded partnership on Wednesday that will see HP become a key distributor of Sun's Solaris 10 operating system.
  • World without Linux 14/11/2008 10:31:00

    An insight into a world without Linux...
    DATELINE: WindowsWorld 2008: Microsoft CEO and President, Steve Ballmer was happy as a clam today at his WindowsWorld keynote in San Francisco's Gates Center. "Nothing can make me happier to tell you that, Larry Page CEO of Google," a niche AOL search engine, "has agreed to run their search engine on Windows Server 2004."
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