Sun Microsystems has begun releasing an update for Solaris 8, its version of the Unix operating system, that can dish out Web pages faster and is easier to manage, the company said. Solaris 8 update ...

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 ...

Sun Microsystems has launched the latest version of its Solaris operating system and overhauled its pricing model to better compete with Linux. Solaris 10 includes 600 new features that Sun hopes will ...

The company takes additional steps in its effort to increase the hardware support that's needed to make a version of its Solaris operating system for Intel processors useful. Stephen Shankland worked ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. is adding an advanced, more powerful 128-bit ZFS file system, new virtualization technologies and the Postgres open-source database to its Solaris 10 Unix operating system, as ...

Sun Microsystems is revamping the start-up process for its Solaris operating system, scrapping an awkward, elderly approach for one the company promises will be faster, more familiar and more useful ...

OpenSolaris was Sun's open-sourcing of most of the System V (plus much else) Unix based Solaris operating system. It's now the third major family of open-source Unix, after Linux and BSD. When Oracle ...

IBM has decided to lend Red Hat a helping hand in its struggle to wrest server operating system market share from Sun Microsystems. On Tuesday, the two companies are expected to announce a range of ...