Now that Oracle has completed its acquisition of Sun, its strategy for Solaris customer support is becoming more clear. And that starts with changes to the license and support terms that may limit use ...

Sun Microsystems has fulfilled its pledge to make its newest version of the Solaris operating system available for free. On Monday evening, the server and software company began offering Solaris 10 as ...

Solaris 10 is at risk of a zero-day exploit, due to security bugs in its telnet service, Sun Microsystems warned Tuesday. The "highly critical" vulnerabilities could enable attackers to gain ...

With the new Solaris 10, Sun is moving its stalwart NOS from proprietary hardware to off-the-rack Intel- and AMD-powered boxes. And since the download is free, it behooves any IT manager to load it on ...

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SAN JOSE — While Sun Microsystems Inc. officially launched Solaris 10 here last week, the future prospects of the operating system—and perhaps of Sun itself—were being judged many miles away by early ...

Solaris 10, the official stable version of Sun’s UNIX operating system, is no longer available to users at no cost. Oracle has adjusted the terms of the license, which now requires users to purchase a ...

Sun Microsystems and Dell announced Wednesday a distribution agreement under which Dell will distribute Sun's Solaris 10 operating system on Dell PowerEdge servers. Under the multiyear agreement, Dell ...

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