When Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems in 2010, the company inherited a venerable Unix solution that was already in decline. The Solaris operating system on Sun’s SPARC hardware was losing ground to ...

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Suppose someone high up in your organization announces that your data center choice between IBM's AIX on Power offerings and Sun's Solaris on SPARC line is more of a business decision than a ...

Oracle Corp. is laying off hundreds of employees, documents filed with the California Employment Development Department show, and the biggest cuts appear to be hitting the teams working on the Solaris ...

28.11.2007 - Almost two thirds of Irish IT experts say the main motivation for migrating to the Linux operating system from UNIX for use in servers is cost, according to a recent survey from Novel's ...

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After years of struggle and fading recognition, it seems the end is finally here for Solaris and Sparc, the Unix operating system and RISC processor designed and championed by Sun Microsystems and ...

Oracle’s plans for Solaris and Sparc, outlined in a presentation Tuesday by John Fowler, executive vice president of systems, are aimed at reassuring customers and channel partners about the ...

I know very little about sparcs and solaris. Just picked up an old sparc to play with and hopefully learn a few things. The question I have is what version of solaris to get. Looking at the ...

I have it under good authority that it works well at least that is what I heard from a customer. In fact they did exactly what you said. Virtualized old Sparc app on VMWare and the performance went up ...

Transitive Corporation announced the release of Version 1.2 of its innovative QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/x86-64 solution. Just as server virtualization helped bridge the gap for legacy ...