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 ...

For years, Sun Microsystems Inc. ignored Linux or dismissed it as just another Unix variant. But company officials are now talking bluntly about their failure to recognize the corporate IT push to low ...

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Sun Microsystems is guiding the spotlight away from a once-prominent feature of Solaris 10. The feature, code-named Janus and not yet released, lets Linux applications run on its Solaris operating ...

"When Solaris 10 goes GA [general availability], it will represent the most significant release by Sun of any kindhardware or softwarein 10 years," said Marc Maselli, president of Back Bay ...

Sun's BrandZ technology, which lets Linux applications run on a virtual slice of a Solaris x86 installation, is finally ready for prime time. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Solaris 10 heads for Linux territory Solaris 10 heads for Linux territory By Thomas Henderson Sun is gunning for some of Linux’s rising popularity in the enterprise with the newest release of its Unix ...

After nearly a year’s delay, Sun Microsystems Inc. has released software designed to let its Solaris operating system run Linux applications without any modification. The software, formerly called ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems will build software into its forthcoming Solaris 10 version of Unix to run Linux applications unchanged. The software, called Project Janus, will work on servers using ...

Sun is gunning for some of Linux’s rising popularity in the enterprise with the newest release of its Unix derivative, Solaris. In this Clear Choice Test, we found that Solaris 10 has been torn from ...