So the bottom line on all this is simple: the forces that drove Sun to support Linux and open source Solaris haven't changed - and we can expect Oracle to sort itself out accordingly with solid ...

Oracle praised the ... Benchmarks shows that Linux stops providing benefits at four processors. You can add more, but performance won't get much better. Solaris has been engineered to support ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. In a move that seems somewhat obvious, Oracle May 13 ...

This new, humbler Solaris operating system doesn't need to displace Linux as the king of cloud computing to make Oracle money. It doesn't need to win the hearts of hip new developers, but it does ...

The source code for Oracle's Solaris ... to the forums of the Linux tech site Phoronix, the 108MB tarball appears to contain most or all of the source for the kernel of Solaris 11, based on ...

But it remains to be seen whether Solaris and Oracle software running on top of Sparc hardware is a viable alternative to Linux-based x86 servers in the datacentre. Analyst Garter was wary of ...

Oracle may end up merging the best of OpenSolaris with Linux once it takes control of Sun Microsystems, but it is unlikely to kill off Sun’s widely used Solaris OS, analysts said. On a ...