Sun Introduces Free Virtualization System, Includes Mac
The Mac Observer - USA
On the Mac, it supports Windows, Linux and Solaris VM clients. The
Mac Observer interviewed Sun's Vijay Sarathy, Senior Director of
Marketing for Sun xVM, ...
posted by Al @ 12:45 PM
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Sun pushing open source storage
eChannelLine - North York,Ontario,Canada
Peter stated he wonders if a big company wants to invest in a whole of
department of employees writing code for an Open Solaris storage
system. ...
RE[4]: Comment by FunkyELF
OS News - USA
... assumptions about the quality of the hardware based upon the
fact that XP is the OS referenced rather than 2008 Server, RHEL, AIX, or
Solaris. ...
posted by Al @ 7:09 PM
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Why Apple Will Not Make a Solar Powered iPod
Wired News - USA
Brunton=92s Solaris i6 will put out up to six watts, which is plenty
to power a USB device (using P=3DVI, six watts should give five volts at hal=
f
an ampere). ...
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posted by Al @ 4:34 PM
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Decatur-based hospice agrees to pay $500000 in fraud case
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
As part of the settlement, Home Hospice of North Texas -- now known as
Solaris Healthcare -- admitted no wrongdoing and denied all
liability for actions the ...
posted by Al @ 2:20 PM
0 Comments
Security update for several Cisco products
Current IT news from heise online - London,UK
... 3.2 of CiscoWorks Common Services, in which the bug has been
fixed, for downloading by registered clients. There are also patches for
Windows and Solaris.
Sun Microsystems Ships Over 10000 Sun StorageTek SL500 Tape ...
TMCnet - USA
The SL3000 midrange modular library has the capability to work with
operating systems like Solaris Operating System and can also provide
increased storage ...
posted by Al @ 12:10 PM
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Sun VirtualBox virtual machine software hits 5 million downloads
CNET News - San Francisco,CA,USA
... for virtualization at this point but I would expect Sun to make
this their weapon of choice (versus Xen) since they own it and can tweak it
for Solaris. ...
Sun's xVM Virtual Box Passes 5 Million Downloads
InternetNews.com - USA
Sun unveiled Virtual Box 1.6 May 2, adding full support for Mac OS X,
Solaris and OpenSolaris, formerly beta features, as host operating
systems; ...
posted by Al @ 1:55 AM
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Glide OS 3.0 the Complete Mobile Desktop Launches at D: All Things ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
Glide OS native applications on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris
and mobile and embedded devices use a common C++ code base. ...
posted by Al @ 9:46 PM
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Sun Microsystems' Ian Murdock
Ad-Hoc-News (Pressemitteilung) - Germany
Murdock will also introduce the Open High Availability (HA) Cluster, the
source code base for Sun's Solaris Cluster product and the
availability of more ...
posted by Al @ 4:27 PM
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Sun xVM VirtualBox Breaks Five Million Download Mark; First Free ...
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien,Austria
xVM VirtualBox 1.6 software is the first free hypervisor to support all
major host operating systems (OS), including Mac OS X, Linux, Windows,
Solaris(TM) ...
posted by Al @ 12:57 PM
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TITLE: Cisco Service Control Engine SSH Server Denial of Service ...
SecuObs - France
DESCRIPTION: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Cisco Service
Control Engine, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS
(Denial of ...
Sabotage and the cost of change
ZDNet - USA
... lists) would be secured by the bank for commercial purposes and
by centralization on two Solaris servers at headquarters for non
financial processing. ...
posted by Al @ 8:38 AM
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Sun Achieves Industry Milestone with 10000 th Tape Library Shipment
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
Spencer's Retail has selected Sun StorageTek disk and tape storage, Sun
Fire servers running UltraSPARC(R) processors and the Solaris(TM) 10
Operating ...
Pinnacle builds team
InvestorDaily - Sydney,NSW,Australia
Pinnacle houses boutique managers Plato, Resolution Capital, Palisade
Investment Partners, Hyperion Asset Management and Solaris.
Solaris was formed in ...
1000th GM-Allison hybrid-powered bus enters service in Las Vegas
Autochannel (press release) - USA
International sales of the system are growing since its European launch
with Solaris at the IAA Show in September 2006. Solaris buses
with the system are ...
posted by Al @ 5:58 PM
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eG Innovations Releases eG Enterprise Suite 4.1, Delivers Advanced ...
Virtualization.com - Asse,Belgium
eG Innovations announced the immediate availability of version 4.1 of its
eG Enterprise Suite with support for monitoring of VMware ESX 3i and
Solaris ...
posted by Al @ 11:02 AM
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Sun=92s xVM VirtualBox: Free Virtualization
WebWorkerDaily - San Francisco,CA,USA<=
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Sun=92s desktop virtualization environment runs on Windows, Solaris,
Mac OS X, or Linux systems, and lets users create a number of virtual
machines onto which ...
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posted by Al @ 1:41 AM
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Rocchi's Retro Rental: Lost in Space
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
(In fact, the in-flight entertainment selections not only included
Solaris but also 2001: A Space Odyssey and AI; I don't know who
exactly programs NWA's ...
RE[4]: Another Missed Opportunity
OS News - USA
For example, both Linux and Solaris come with real time schedulers
(not just a special RTLinux). But I don't see your connection between
the OS that's in ...
posted by Al @ 9:50 PM
0 Comments
RE: what an wonderful tool
Newmobilecomputing.com - USA
... tools that simply do their job, just to mention a few: sed,
grep, cut. Have you noticed that the program structure of DTrace in
Solaris is also awk-like?
posted by Al @ 8:05 PM
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windows tracing
OS News - USA
By tracing I mean the level of detail that tracing on
Linux/BSD/Solaris allows. This includes: Showing a list of files
open or seeing the memory consumption ...
posted by Al @ 1:21 PM
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Fujitsu Services wins 3.5-year contract at Equens
Telecom Paper (subscription) - Houten,Netherlands
The equipment supplied will come from Fujitsu's own European factory,
running on SPARC Solaris. The contracts runs for three and a half
years; no financial ...
posted by Al @ 10:11 AM
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OpenSolaris: nice try, pity about the licence
iTWire - Australia
As Linux kernel guru Ted T'so commented, "Fundamentally, Open
Solaris has been released under a Open Source license, but it is not
an Open Source ...
posted by Al @ 6:55 PM
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Opulent eyewear by Roberto Cavalli arrives in Dubai
Fibre2fashion.com - Ahmedabad,Gujarat,India
The new 2008 collection of sunglasses has been launched at Solaris,
a huge store that houses designer eyewear. Roberto, a renowned name in
fashion arena is ...
posted by Al @ 3:55 PM
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RE[3]: Well... there's more
OS News - USA
What special differences between BSD, Solaris, Linux? You'll
need a microscope to find them. And also a do not like UNIX at all
(don't know, why). ...
posted by Al @ 6:00 PM
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International options
Malaysia Star - Malaysia
GRUY=C8RE, Gouda and Gorgonzola =96 you are most likely to find such cheeses=
at the Cold Storage outlet at Solaris Mont Kiara, Kuala Lumpur, as
the grocery ...
etro/story.asp%3Ffile%3D/2008/5/25/sundaymetro/21323651%26sec%3Dsundaymetro"=
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posted by Al @ 3:18 AM
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Solaris Paper Adding East Coast Facility
CoStar Group - Bethesda,MD,USA
Solaris Paper Inc. has a signed a 10-year lease for a build-to-suit
facility totaling 406000 square feet in Shenandoah County, VA. BPG
Properties Ltd. (BPG) ...
posted by Al @ 11:11 AM
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What are the next moves
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA
Sun --> Reinforce the Dell's posiction on corporate segment with the
entrance on RISC server market and Operational System (Solaris),
what turn Dell to an ...
posted by Al @ 4:37 AM
0 Comments
RE: monetary compensation
OS News - USA
I would argue one big reason Solaris went this route is to stay
relevant in the face of Linux (especially with Sun selling x86 hardware).
...
posted by Al @ 5:10 PM
0 Comments
The geek in me wants...
OS News - USA
It's time for it to live up to it's name ;^) I already got my wish
for a free and open source Solaris, and my only real issue with it
is a maddening lack of ...
Actress McElhone's husband found dead
LIVENEWS.com.au - Sydney,NSW,Australia
... when she heard the news, the Los Angeles Times reported. Among
movies she has appeared in are Solaris (2002) and The Truman Show
(1998).
posted by Al @ 6:46 AM
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RE[3]: OpenGL faster on Linux with new ATI drivers
Newmobilecomputing.com - USA
If you are getting bad performance, 9/10, its crappy drivers; case in
point; I had crappy performance with Solaris using my ATI Radeon
X300 video card; ...
posted by Al @ 3:27 AM
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Natascha McElhone has been left devastated by the sudden death of ...=
NZ City - New Zealand
Natascha =96 who starred alongside George Clooney in =91Solaris=92
=96 already has two children with Martin, Theodore, eight, and
five-year-old Otis. ...
z/news/article.aspx%3Fid%3D85503%26fm%3Dnewsmain,nrhl">
posted by Al @ 2:14 AM
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Sun Updates VirtualBox with Native Solaris Support
IT Jungle - New York,NY,USA
by Timothy Prickett Morgan Server and operating system maker Sun
Microsystems is probably best known for its Solaris Unix, even
though its Java programming ...
posted by Al @ 9:21 PM
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Intershop launches Enfinity Suite e-commerce software platform
ePaymentsnews Network (subscription) - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
The Solaris 10 OS is a Unix operating system adopted by server
manufacturers and features x86 platform support. Intershop Enfinity Suite 6
and the Solaris ...
posted by Al @ 3:26 PM
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'Solaris' star Natascha 'absolutely devastated' as husband dies at 42
hellomagazine.com - London,UK
The 38-year-old, who shared the screen with George Clooney in
Solaris, is currently expecting the couple's third child. She
was in LA filming US TV drama ...
Iona simplifies SOA data interoperability
Computer Business Review - UK
Other features include transport abstraction layer, mappings, an aliases
function, and broader platform support to include Apple OS X and
Solaris in ...
posted by Al @ 12:19 PM
0 Comments
22-05-2008: Sunrise=92s 9-month net profit rises to RM115m
The Edge Daily - Malaysia
Sunrise said yesterday commercial developments such as Solaris
Mont=92Kiara and Solaris Dutamas and residential developments such
as Banyan, Meridin, ...
.com/cms/content.jsp%3Fid%3Dcom.tms.cms.article.Article_ead507c0-cb73c03a-18=
bbf550-fe5621f7">
posted by Al @ 9:38 AM
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'Californication' star Natascha McElhone's husband dies
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Their 8-, and 4-year-old sons are with Natascha, who is best known for her
roles in "Solaris" with George Clooney, "The Truman
Show" with Jim Carrey and ...
RE[3]: OpenGL faster on Linux with new ATI drivers
OS News - USA
I found the recent (Open)Solaris to be the most responsive on x86
hardware. I believe the main advantage for Windows left now is the breadth
of games. ...
posted by Al @ 3:01 AM
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Natascha McElhone's Hubby Found Dead
E! Online - USA
McElhone, who has also appeared in Solaris and the Truman Show, was
filming in the US at the time and is currently en route back to the UK
Kelly had joined ...
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The UNIX year 2038 problem
SearchDataCenter.com - Needham,MA,USA<=
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Solaris 7 or higher on 64-bit UltraSPARC and SPARC64 processors, as
well as Solaris 10 on x86-64 platforms, has a 64-bit time_t. AIX
Version 4.3.3 on 64-bit ...
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Tragedy for Californication=92s Natascha McElhone
VIP Breakdown - Bothell,WA,USA<=
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... the couple celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary. McElhone
(Solaris, The Truman Show) is currently en route to England with the
couple=92s other two sons.
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posted by Al @ 8:38 PM
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Enterprise Unix Roundup: Operating Systems on the Analyst's Couch
Server Watch - Darien,CT,USA
The four kernels Spinellis examines are the hall of fame for enterprise
servers: FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris and Windows. He does not specify
which versions of ...
Husband of 'Californication' star Natascha McElhone found dead
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
The actress, who also starred in "The Truman Show" and
"Solaris," is said to be "devastated" by the
loss. Kelly, who was one of the UK's top cosmetic ...
posted by Al @ 4:53 PM
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Systems Administrator
iTWire - Australia
Minimum of 1 years experience in the administration of a Unix / Linux /
Solaris system. Minimum of 1 years experience in the administration
of Microsoft ...
Security vulnerability in Borland InterBase
Current IT news from heise online - London,UK
Core Security found the bug in the Solaris and Windows versions of
Borland InterBase 2007 Service Pack 2 Build 8.1.0.256. According to the
security advisory ...
posted by Al @ 1:04 PM
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Zertificon: Z1 Securemail Product Family Supports Solaris 10
TechWhack (press release) - New Delhi,Delhi,India
Effective immediately, the Z1 SecureMail products from Zertificon Solutions
GmbH for e-mail encryption are also compatible with Solaris 10.
...
posted by Al @ 10:39 AM
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Integrated Analysis Suite
Cadalyst Magazine - Santa Ana,CA,USA
... and platform-independent 3D display management. The EDA 3D
Analysis Suite is supported on 32- and 64-bit Linux, Solaris, and
Windows platforms.
posted by Al @ 5:13 AM
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Messaging Systems Engineer
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
Excellent knowledge in various UNIX operating system, include SUN
Solaris and Linux. Excellent knowledge and hands-on experience in
Oracle databases. ...
posted by Al @ 1:04 AM
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Zertificon: Z1 Securemail Product Family Supports Solaris 10
Business Wire (press release) - San Fr=
ancisco,CA,USA
Solaris is mainly utilised in medium-size and large enterprises as
well as with service providers. Effective immediately, the Z1 SecureMail
Station, ...
.com/news/google/20080520005081/en">
Wall Street launches advanced FX transaction solution
Banking Times - UK
The solution runs on Sun Microsystems=92 Solaris 10 Operating System
and is designed to improve the efficiency of operational and business
processes, ...
.co.uk/20052008-wall-street-launches-advanced-fx-transaction-solution/">
posted by Al @ 1:47 PM
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Zertificon: Z1 Securemail Product Family Supports Solaris 10
Centre Daily Times - Centre,PA,USAnt>
BERLIN =97 Effective immediately, the Z1 SecureMail products from
Zertificon Solutions GmbH for e-mail encryption are also compatible with
Solaris 10. ...
com/business/technology/story/605033.html">
posted by Al @ 12:24 PM
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Feed for Wall Street Systems
WebitPR (press release) - Hykeham,England,UK
By implementing Wallstreet FX software on the Solaris 10 OS with the
Solaris Cluster software, Wallstreet offers customers an excellent
level of system ...
posted by Al @ 4:09 PM
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RE: ZFS + WinFS ???
OS News - USA
... have said themselves they "don't agree" with the
GPL, I think that any Sun Database FS on top of ZFS will probably released
for Solaris or general *nix. ...
posted by Al @ 11:02 AM
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I swear, this is not another Unixfication post
ZDNet - USA
For all of you not up on Solaris digerati, Jeff Bonwick is Chief
Technical Officer of Storage Technology at Sun. Translation: He=92s in
charge of ZFS, ...
BTL/%3Fp%3D8854">
Minturn group urges 'yes' on Ginn project
Vail Daily News - Vail,CO,USA
MINTURN =97 Only two people out of 30 Randy Quintana has talked to don=92t
support a private ski resort in Minturn. =93They=92ve told me they=92re
going to vote yes,=94 ...
m/article/20080516/NEWS/210985952">
posted by Al @ 8:08 AM
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RE: ZFS, Casablanca, Chocolate, Peanut butter
OS News - USA
... as good as Apple does it, the number of people who have heard
the hype about ZFS outnumbers those who will ever use Solaris by at
least a factor of 10.
Technical Infrastructure Consultant/ Tester x 2
iTWire - Australia
The successful candidates will have a broad understanding of Linux,
Solaris and Windows operating systems as well as RDMS such as
Oracle, SQL and Sybase. ...
posted by Al @ 3:02 AM
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ZFS Coming to Linux?
Newmobilecomputing.com - USA
One comment reads "Yeah, let's decrease the reasons why people
would want to pick up Solaris. Wonderful business strategy."
Others seem to agree: "If you ...
Protesters rally to save Plainfield hospital
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - Newark,NJ,USA
In February, Solaris Health Care System, which owns the acute care
hospital, said it would have to close Muhlenberg because of mounting
financial losses. ...
posted by Al @ 6:57 PM
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Ginn could pump $162 million into Minturn
Vail Daily News - Vail,CO,USA
Town councilors have become more savvy when it comes to drawing benefits
from developers, said Craig Cohn, director of marketing and sales for the
Solaris ...
posted by Al @ 12:18 AM
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BEST Bus Service, Mumbai revamps service with Linux
TechShout! - Mumbai,India
... the fare collections are digitally transferred to individual
float accounts on back office servers which operate on Sun=92s
Solaris operating system. ...
m/general/2008/17/best-bus-service-mumbai-revamps-service-with-linux/">
posted by Al @ 2:27 PM
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Analyst group touts Unix OS scorecard
SearchDataCenter.com - Needham,MA,USA
Users can go to the site and rank specific features of AIX, HP-UX and
Solaris. Moderators at Ideas International can then give credibility
ratings to the ...
posted by Al @ 3:01 AM
0 Comments
Quad-Core AMD Opteron=99 Processor-Based Systems Now Available from ...b>
WebWire (press release) - Atlanta,GA,U=
SA
=93Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors, in conjunction with our unique server
designs and the Solaris 10 OS, deliver extreme value, performance
and reliability. ...
ViewPressRel.asp%3FaId%3D65440">
posted by Al @ 3:01 AM
0 Comments
RE[5]: ZFS seems to be the biggest memory hog ever crea
Newmobilecomputing.com - USA
I'd say Solaris and ZFS have a long way to go. That reply should
have gone somewhere else, I apologize for the unwarranted flame.
posted by Al @ 3:01 AM
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RE[2]: Nice..
OS News - USA
As for Solaris on Intel, we would also like to do that, but we would
need dedicated hardware as well. If nobody steps up to provide these, we
will still ...
posted by Al @ 3:30 PM
0 Comments
Linux shop adds Solaris for performance boost
Search Enterprise Linux - USA
So the Oakland, Calif.,-based company did something that Whitehead never
anticipated; it abandoned Linux for Sun's Solaris 10 operating
system for many of ...
posted by Al @ 3:25 PM
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OpenSolaris: Shows Promise, Needs Work
Newmobilecomputing.com - USA
The goal is to allow more people to experience Solaris. A few
reviews have since hit the web. Ars Technica took a first look, and was
moderately positive ...
posted by Al @ 3:25 PM
0 Comments
What=92s wrong at OpenSolaris
ZDNet - USA
Basically, I see making Solaris more Linux-like as dragging
Solaris down market when the same effort could have made a far more
positive contribution by ...
Murphy/%3Fp%3D1144">
posted by Al @ 3:25 PM
0 Comments
RE[3]: ZFS seems to be the biggest memory hog ever created ..
Newmobilecomputing.com - USA
When someone says that, it's referring to the recommendations for
running traditional Solaris with ZFS, both in their intended
scenarios, the enterprise. ...
posted by Al @ 3:25 PM
0 Comments
Dell Agrees To Sell Sun Solaris Servers
GameSHOUT - USA
Dell has agreed to install Sun Microsystems's Solaris operating
system in some of its servers. The official announcement signals a new
latest truce with a ...
posted by Al @ 3:25 PM
0 Comments
Sun expands its AMD quad-core server portfolio
BetaNews - USA
The Sun Fire X4140 ($2545), Sun Fire X4240 ($3145), and Sun Fire X4440
($5995) will ship with the ability to run Solaris 10, Linux,
Microsoft Windows, ...
posted by Al @ 3:23 PM
0 Comments
RE[3]: Networking
OS News - USA
My soultion was to modify the resolv.conf and nsswitch.conf so I could get
a working configuration, which I know does work with
Solaris/Solaris Express and ...
RE: ZFS seems to be the biggest memory hog ever created
OS News - USA
Actually sorting out the difference is pretty tough; RAM usage numbers for
the OS are not directly comparable in Solaris or 2003 or Vista or
RHEL3 or ...
posted by Al @ 3:23 PM
0 Comments
RE: Nice..
OS News - USA
But its interesting how they provide no Solaris package. sure, they
have a mono package, but its only for sparc - scared that if you provide an
x86 version ...
posted by Al @ 3:23 PM
0 Comments
=93Everything that can be invented has been invented=94
ZDNet - USA
It=92s not highly visible, but it=92s there as a kind of underground
movement: Solaris 10 (really SunOS 3.0) pushes in that direction, so
do Sun Rays, ...
Murphy/%3Fp%3D1143">
posted by Al @ 7:35 PM
0 Comments
Avaya IR Solaris OpenSSH Information Disclosure Weakness
FrSIRT - Montpellier,France
This issue is caused by an error in OpenSSH for Solaris. For
additional information, see : FrSIRT/ADV-2008-1448 Subscribe to FrSIRT VNS
and receive ...
posted by Al @ 7:35 PM
0 Comments
Sun Adds Quad-Core Opteron
InternetNews.com - USA
The new hardware can be loaded with a variety of operating systems --
Solaris 10, Linux and Windows -- as well as VMware for virtualized
systems. ...
posted by Al @ 7:35 PM
0 Comments
Q&A: Sun exec ponders OpenSolaris, Linux
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
But, for example, with Solaris there are still a few bits and pieces
that have been licensed from other companies. We are working out the
arrangements with ...
First look: OpenSolaris 2008.05 a work in progress
Ars Technica - Boston,MA,USA
There are a few rough spots where the developers haven't completely
finished grafting existing front-end configuration tools onto underlying
Solaris ...
posted by Al @ 8:51 AM
0 Comments
Intershop Has Expanded Its Global E-Commerce Capabilities to Run ...
Market Wire (press release) - USA
Sun Microsystems' 64-bit Solaris 10 OS is one of the world's
most popular Unix operating systems running on the leading systems from top
server ...
Sun Microsystems enters x86 server virtualization arena
SearchServerVirtualization.com - Needham,MA,USA
Sun xVM bare-metal hypervisor for x86 servers is based on Citrix Systems
Inc.'s open source Xen technologies and Solaris. It can host
several guest ...
posted by Al @ 8:50 AM
0 Comments
NYSE Euronext banks on Red Hat
CNET Blogs - Cupertino,CA,USA
As announced, the New York Stock Exchange Euronext dumped its proprietary
UNIX heritage (AIX, HP UX, Solaris) for the freedom, flexibility,
and performance ...
posted by Al @ 6:16 PM
0 Comments
Amazon EC2 and Sun OpenSolaris VMs together in Beta
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
It also includes Solaris Containers so that developers can build
virtualization-aware applications that can be run on a single instance of
the Solaris ...
posted by Al @ 10:07 AM
0 Comments
Peter Hobbs - Music composer for television and film
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
I'm still a sucker for the rare combination of great sci-fi and
soundtrack - Cliff Martinez's score to Solaris is exquisite. I
had a fascination for fire ...
Are Linux File Systems Right for You?
Server Watch - Darien,CT,USA
By Henry Newman Potential customers with high I/O requirements frequently
ask me if they can use Linux instead of AIX or Solaris. ...
posted by Al @ 4:18 AM
0 Comments
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Sun-Intel introduce Solaris threading development technology
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
The Sun-Intel alliance has introduced Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB)
for the Solaris operating system using Sun Studio. ...
ly.com/Articles/2008/05/12/230641/sun-intel-introduce-solaris-threading-deve=
lopment-technology.htm">
Novell to Sun: Here=92s an offer you can=92t refuse
ZDNet - USA
Last week, I blogged about the possible future of a unified UNIX GPLv3
operating system =93mother distro=94 comprising the merged source code of
the Solaris and ...
BTL/%3Fp%3D8788">
Wine Headed For a 1.0 Release. Finally.
Wired News - USA
Wine still doesn=92t support every Windows app, but for those who=92ve made
the switch to Linux (or FreeBSD or Solaris), yet still need one or
two Windows apps, ...
onkeybites/2008/05/wine-headed-for.html">
"All Things Virtual"
Dr. Dobb's Journal - San Mateo,CA,=
USA
In particular, VirtualBox 1.6 has just been released, which adds support
for Macintosh and Solaris host platforms, new high-performance
virtual devices, ...
/207602624">
posted by Al @ 7:40 PM
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Intel multi-core threading library supports Sun Studio
LinuxDevices.com - USA
The Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB) technology has also been made
available for the latest version of the Solaris operating system
(OS). ...
posted by Al @ 7:18 AM
0 Comments
JAVAONE - Sun announces open source Solaris updates
The Industry Standard - San Francisco,CA,USA
It's yet undecided which of the open source versions will be the
foundation of the next mainstream Solaris release, but that will
nonetheless grant ...
posted by Al @ 3:55 AM
0 Comments
Sun exec ponders OpenSolaris, Linux
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
But, for example, with Solaris there, are still a few bits and
pieces that have been licensed from other companies. We are working out the
arrangements with ...
Sun's Virtualization Strategy Evolves
CIO - Framingham,MA,USA
Sun's main virtualization solution is based on Solaris
Containers, a virtualization or partitioning technology built into the
Solaris 10 operating ...
Linux File Systems: You Get What You Pay For
Enterprise Storage Forum - Darien,CT,USA
By Henry Newman I am frequently asked by potential customers with high I/O
requirements if they can use Linux instead of AIX or Solaris.
...
MicroFocus Software Maintenance Renewal
Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Inc. for software maintennance on the following equipment:
Application Server for Server Express Support, Sparc, Solaris
8/9/10, Version 5.0,32/64Bit, ...
posted by Al @ 7:38 PM
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The Two Truths of Tech Investing
MSNBC - USA
First, the Solaris operating system for Sun's servers was under
assault from more lightweight alternatives Linux and Windows NT.
Solaris was -- and arguably ...
Sun Challenges Linux
SYS-CON Media - Montvale,NJ,USA
Indiana is the Linux-friendly Fedora-like OpenSolaris project meant to move
the Solaris-shy Linux community off Linux and on to Solaris
tempted by Solaris ...
Sun open sources Mac OS X virtualisation tool
Inquirer - Harrow,England,UK
Sun claims that as well as supporting Solaris and Mac OS X as hosts,
its new and improved VirtualBox 1.6 now also comes with seamless windowing
for Solaris ...
posted by Al @ 5:13 PM
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Software application development
ZDNet UK - UK
Solaris 10 will still exist alongside the opensolaris.org community,
as Sun says some customers will want what is arguably a more fully
supported and tested ...
posted by Al @ 2:47 PM
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They rally to save Muhlenberg center
Asbury Park Press - Asbury Park,NJ,USA
Solaris Health Care System, which owns the hospital, said through
spokesman Steven Weiss that last year, Muhlenberg provided $15.4 million in
charity care ...
posted by Al @ 12:02 PM
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Revamped virtualisation for Linux, Mac, Solaris and Windows
iTWire - Australia
Available for various Linux distributions including Debian, Red Hat, SUSE
and Ubuntu as well as Solaris, Mac OS X on Intel and Windows, xVM
VirtualBox ...
posted by Al @ 10:08 AM
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Unixfication II
ZDNet - USA
We don=92t need help from Solaris! The guy is definitely a
Solaris backer=94 Nope. I=92m just someone who appreciates what
OpenSolaris is trying to accomplish. ...
BTL/%3Fp%3D8769">
posted by Al @ 8:54 PM
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Sun puts Solaris and ZFS into Amazon's cloud
Blocks & Files - London,UK
Solaris and ZFS are now selectable options on the Amazon web
services platform. Sun has also added technical support services for its
MySQL database running ...
posted by Al @ 3:20 PM
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RE[4]: Piece of kawai
OS News - USA
Linux has drivers for devices and runs on hardware that Solaris and
other systems just cannot. Sun would absolutely love to get their hands on
Linux's ...
posted by Al @ 2:48 AM
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Justification of Open Solaris
Newmobilecomputing.com - USA
by s_groening (2.52) on Wed 7th May 2008 18:54 UTC I'd really like to
be able to run Solaris instead of Linux for sake of the classic pros
like ZFS, ...
OpenSolaris does have an open community
OS News - USA
by Don T. Bothers (4.4) on Wed 7th May 2008 20:08 UTC Only a moron will
make a claim that Solaris does not have a community. If you look at
how Solaris was ...
RE: OpenSolaris does have an open community
OS News - USA
Solaris has traditionally been a different kind of OS than Linux. As
such, one should expect that a Sun led community effort around
Solaris would have both ...
posted by Al @ 10:06 PM
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Could Novell kill OpenSolaris?
ZDNet UK - UK
Sun's just opened its developer conference with the long-delayed launch
of OpenSolaris, the open source version of its Solaris operating
system. ...
RE[2]: Piece of kawai
Newmobilecomputing.com - USA
Over the past eight or so years Linux has hurt Sun and Solaris,
badly, and it has changed the rules of the game in how an OS overall is
developed. ...
RE[2]: Piece of garbage
OS News - USA
Guess who the cheaper beer is - its amazing when I see Linux advocates foam
the mouth over Solaris when it should be a great thing there is more
choice, ...
RE[8]: Sun is a bit strange
Newmobilecomputing.com - USA
That's the reason why stuff doesn't work, things aren't ported
and stuff isn't packaged for Solaris. No one uses Sun's
compiler studio, and if you come on ...
posted by Al @ 3:29 PM
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Sun Solaris SSH X11 Forwarding Vulnerability
Secunia - UK
Sun has acknowledged a vulnerability in SSH included in Sun Solaris,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose sensitive
information or ...
Sun Solaris Security Update Fixes OpenSSH Information Disclosure
FrSIRT - Montpellier,France
A weakness has been identified in Sun Solaris, which could be
exploited by local attackers to gain knowledge of sensitive information.
...
RE: Piece of garbage
OS News - USA
Even people like me who aren't Unix/Linux users can appreciate how good
it would be a free Solaris (because let's confess it: it's
about price now) fully ...
posted by Al @ 1:04 PM
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Why many MCSEs won=92t learn Linux
ZDNet - USA
Put a Solaris guy who=92s never used Linux in front of SuSe 10 with
a list of complex tasks and he=92ll complain bitterly about missing pieces,
...
Murphy/%3Fp%3D1137">
RE[8]: Finally!
Newmobilecomputing.com - USA
Not yet for Solaris. With this announcement, Solaris has only
just got to the position that Linux was in about five years ago ... if
motivated to do so you ...
puting.com/thread%3F313196">
posted by Al @ 10:32 AM
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RE[10]: Finally!
Newmobilecomputing.com - USA
... using Linux drivers as a source of information about how to
write a Solaris driver is perfectly OK, and of great benefit, I
should think. ...
Piece of garbage
OS News - USA
Practical Technology also mounts a pathetic case of participating being the
benchmark for the success or failure of OpenSolaris - open sourcing
Solaris was ...
posted by Al @ 5:23 AM
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Sun Microsystems unveils Open Solaris
Economic Times - Gurgaon,Haryana,India
SAN FRANCISCO: Sun Microsystems on Monday unveiled a new open-source
version of its Solaris operating system, ahead of one of the largest
global conclave of ...
RE[3]: Finally!
OS News - USA
I'm just happy Solaris will have an updated root shell, and I
won't have to deal with that silliness if I decide to run it as my main
OS. ...
NaviSite Offers Sun SaaS Program
Web Host Industry Review - USA
The Solaris On Demand program enables ISVs to quickly develop and
deliver their software applications in an on-demand environment hosted and
supported by ...
false issue
Newmobilecomputing.com - USA
After all, source availability for Solaris is in no way new. In
addition, since I'm not a kernel hacker, I'm not affected in any
way if Solaris beats Linux ...
posted by Al @ 1:56 AM
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Print Version Sponsored By
eWeek - New York, NY
Now that a solid foundation for the OpenSolaris project is in place, the
real work of putting Sun and Solaris back into the center of the IT
conversation ...
posted by Al @ 10:17 PM
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Sun unveils new Open Solaris
Howrah News Service - Howrah,West Bengal,India
Sun Microsystems is launching the open source version of its operating
system Solaris this week. OpenSolaris has a series of user-friendly
application and ...
NaviSite Expands Global Relationship to Offer Solaris On Demand
CNNMoney.com - USA
The Solaris On Demand program provides ISVs with the ability to
quickly develop and deliver their software applications in an on-demand
environment hosted ...
RE[6]: Comment by moleskine
Newmobilecomputing.com - USA
OpenSolaris is just a code dumping repository that Sun aren't using for
their own development of Indiana and Solaris. Again with the may and
might, ...
posted by Al @ 8:04 PM
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RE[6]: Finally!
Newmobilecomputing.com - USA
"More than Solaris, let's put it that way. Solaris
has just started to compete in the space. When Linux takes over MacOS
X's or windows' market share come ...
The Linux Ecosystem to More than Double to $49 Billion
IT Jungle - New York,NY,USA
One of the wild cards in these numbers is, of course, what happens to the
Solaris Unix variant from Sun Microsystems. While Sun has
distributed more than 12 ...
posted by Al @ 3:33 PM
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Sun Microsystems and OpenSolaris introduce OpenSolaris OS
Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
According to the company, OpenSolaris, based on Sun's Solaris
kernel and created through community collaboration, offers the combination
of innovation, ...
posted by Al @ 10:19 AM
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Open Solaris Live CD
OS News - USA
All in all it looks good enough to do an install and take a better look at
it. It is a far cry from the last Solaris i looked at several years
ago.
VirtualBox 1.6 - Desktop virtualization comes out of the Sun
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
This latest version of VirtualBox 1.6 now offers full support for Mac OS X
and Solaris as host operating systems. For some time now, support
for these ...
RE[6]: Finally!
Newmobilecomputing.com - USA
Some of its features are a bit neater than existing solutions, but alas, a
lot of Solaris folks think it's the second coming of Christ.
...
RE: Live CD is a nice touch
Newmobilecomputing.com - USA
I'm waiting for my download to complete and figured I'd post
something positive which might not turn into a nasty Linux vs
Solaris brawl. (One can hope. ...
posted by Al @ 6:46 AM
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Opening Up To Solaris
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
OpenSolaris, Sun's open-source version of their Solaris
operating system, gets its official kickoff today at Sun's CommunityOne
conference in San Francisco. ...
Sun Delivers OpenSolaris, NetBeans Updates
eWeek - New York, NY
OpenSolaris is based on the Solaris kernel and created through
community collaboration. The OS can be downloaded here. Jim McHugh, vice
president of Solaris ...
OpenSolaris Indiana Released
Slashdot - USA
A new, modern package manager and all the goodies of Solaris: ZFS,
DTrace, SMF, and Xen on a LiveCD that was designed for Linux users.
...
RE[4]: Finally!
Newmobilecomputing.com - USA
Hey Solaris. Welcome to all the stuff Linux distros have learned
over the past ten years (and how far they still have to go) ;-). It's
an interesting ride. ...
RE[5]: Shame ...
Newmobilecomputing.com - USA
Sun sells more SPARC systems running Solaris than all the x86
systems combined. See above. You can't read a simple article. See
above. ...
Have been waiting for an official opensolaris
Newmobilecomputing.com - USA
For all my solaris installs, I've been using pkgsrc
(http://pkgsrc.org) from the NetBSD team, which has a much wider range of
updated packages.
posted by Al @ 12:20 AM
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New Open Source Solaris Pits Sun Against Linux
Wired News - USA
OpenSolaris is based on the Solaris kernel and uses many of its
features like the Zettabyte File System (ZFS) and Dynamic Tracing (DTrace),
which offers ...
onkeybites/2008/05/open-source-sol.html">
OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows up
ZDNet - USA
Founded as an Open Source project by Sun Microsystems in June of 2005, and
originally created as a clearing house for releasing CDDL licensed
Solaris code ...
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Live from CommunityOne, Sun Introduces OpenSolaris =96 Free, Open ...=
Business Wire (press release) - San Fr=
ancisco,CA,USA
OpenSolaris, based on Sun's Solaris(TM) kernel and created
through community collaboration, delivers an unrivaled development and
deployment environment ...
.com/news/google/20080505005591/en">
posted by Al @ 2:23 PM
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Sun to unveil open-source Solaris version
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA=
By Brandon Bailey Sun Microsystems will unveil a new open-source version of
its Solaris operating system, which it hopes will entice a wide
audience of ...
com/business/ci_9156652">
AMD Expands Charter for the OpenSolaris OS and Sun xVM at the AMD ...=
WELT ONLINE - Germany
By expanding research and development on the OpenSolaris Operating System,
the ORSC expects to help drive increased Solaris OS performance for
business ...
de/index.php%3Fchannel%3Dfin%26module%3Dsmarthouse%26id%3D718583">r=3Dgreen>
OpenSolaris OS officially debuts
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA>
Based on the Solaris kernel, OpenSolaris incorporates features such
as ZFS (Zettabyte File System), offering instant rollback and
check-summing, ...
m/article/08/05/04/OpenSolaris-OS-officially-debuts_1.html">een>
Commercial OpenSolaris ships
ZDNet - USA
=93It=92s the first Opensolaris operating system that=92s fully
supported,=94 said Jim McHugh, vice president of Solaris marketing
for Sun. ...
open-source/%3Fp%3D2381">
Sun looks beyond MARS for NetBeans scripting
Register - London,England,UK
That stack features the Sun-owned MySQL and Solaris with Apache: so
Solaris, Apache, MySQL and PHP - SAMP - and MySQL, Apache, Ruby and
Solaris - MARS - and ...
co.uk/2008/05/05/netbeans_scripting_languages/">
Sun's 'Project Copy Linux' goes commercial
Register - London,England,UK
Sun is also pushing the integration of features such as ZFS and its image
packaging system - to download and consume packages for Solaris such
as Apache, ...
co.uk/2008/05/05/open_solaris_commercial_launch/">
posted by Al @ 9:55 AM
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RE[4]: Shame ...
OS News - USA
It's difficult to justify Solaris under those circumstances. Sun
sells more SPARC systems running Solaris than all the x86 systems
combined. See above. ...
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Sun Partners with Joyent: Free Hosting for OpenSocial Apps
Mashable - San Francisco,CA,USA=
The announcement, made today at Sun=92s StartupCamp, pertains to the
Joyentics Free Accelerator program, which already had a great deal of
Solaris developers. ...
8/05/04/sun-partners-with-joyent-free-hosting-for-opensocial-apps/">lor=3Dgreen>
posted by Al @ 5:03 AM
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RE[3]: Shame ...
Newmobilecomputing.com - USA
In the seven years since I seriously looked at Linux/x86 and
Solaris/SPARC head-to-head, 4370 pystones/sec on an UltraSPARC
versus 17543 pystones/sec on a ...
posted by Al @ 10:56 PM
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RE[2]: Sun sucks
OS News - USA
OpenOffice, Netbeans, Java (yes, with a little proding.. lol), ZFS,
Solaris, Dtrace, the list goes on, i cant imagine them removing an
open product from the ...
For tennis teams, time on court counts
Lower Hudson Journal news - West Harrison,NY,USA
O'Brien wanted the women's USTA 3.0 team at Solaris in
Yorktown Heights to be a little different. The women on her team play all
year long, and friendships ...
posted by Al @ 11:32 AM
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Sun Leads Developers Down the Open Storage Path
E-Commerce Times - USA
Sun has released a couple of recipes to help developers create storage
units using its Solaris operating system. Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq:
JAVA) on Tuesday ...
posted by Al @ 12:15 AM
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New version of VirtualBox also runs under Mac OS X and Solaris
Current IT news from heise online - Lo=
ndon,UK
The biggest innovation in this latest version of the free virtualisation
framework is that it now also supports Mac OS X and Solaris as host
systems. ...
.co.uk/news/New-version-of-VirtualBox-also-runs-under-Mac-OS-X-and-Solaris--=
/110659">
Threads Considered Harmful
Slashdot - USA
I wrote threaded code on AIX, HPUX, and Solaris. I recall
compilation difficulties on AIX (different version of cc required, if I
recall) and on Solaris it ...
dot.org/article.pl%3Fsid%3D08/05/02/1331214">
Sun to set on jobs of 2500 workers
Siliconrepublic.com - Dublin,Irelandfont>
=46rom a product perspective, Solaris-based Chip Multi-Threading (CMT=
)
systems billings more than doubled year-over-year, with the company=92s
blade systems ...
lic.com/news/news.nv%3Fstoryid%3Dsingle10917">
posted by Al @ 5:55 PM
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Sun Says Open Source Storage on OpenSolaris Is Taking Off
IT Jungle - New York,NY,USA
And that is why Sun Microsystems started open sourcing Solaris three
years ago, and followed up with its Java Enterprise System software stack,
Java itself, ...
A tough Q3 hits Sun's storage as the vendor plans job cuts
Byteandswitch.com - New York,NY,USA
Although Sun is pushing Solaris as a way for users to cut their
storage hardware costs, the exec admitted that this will also help the
vendor harness its ...
posted by Al @ 4:12 AM
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Darl McBride Takes the Stand In Novell v. SCO
Slashdot - USA
Sun wanted the ability to open source some of their Solaris code
(which became OpenSolaris). Solaris and Unixware both branched from
SVR4 so they would need ...
Sun Microsystems Reports Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2008 Results
Centre Daily Times - Centre,PA,USA
"With double digit year-over-year growth in India and Brazil, and
triple digit year-over-year billings growth in our energy-efficient,
Solaris(TM)-based ...
posted by Al @ 9:30 PM
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Sun boosts open storage strategy
ZDNet UK - UK
Sun released OpenSolaris, an open-source version of its flagship
Solaris operating system, in November 2004, and has continued to
polish its open-source ...
Continuent Announces New uni/cluster 2008 for PostgreSQL and ...
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
"High availability is often the highest priority of our PostgreSQL for
Solaris customers, and the new uni/cluster gives them another
powerful tool for ...
posted by Al @ 4:11 PM
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Microsoft Finally Concedes On Windows-Linux Management
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
We take Solaris, Unix applications, and allow them to recompile and
run on top of Windows. Name a Unix protocol--we support every one of those
Unix ...
posted by Al @ 3:45 AM
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