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 ...

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 ...

An internal Oracle memo that was released last week provides a detailed summary of the company’s plans for the Solaris operating system, which Oracle obtained when it acquired Sun. The memo offers a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seldom is a data center asked to do less. More often, it's asked to do more with less—fewer computers and less power consumption. One significant industry discussion for the past few years has been ...

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 ...

Oracle praised the Solaris operating system when it agreed to acquire its creator, Sun Microsystems , but the actual beauty of this fine piece of engineering was left unexplained. Here's a look at the ...