SAN FRANCISCO — Sun Microsystems Inc. officials offered a sneak peek into its Solaris operating system plans, touting incremental improvements in areas such as resource management that are ...

The Linux operating system is governed by the GPL, so releasing Solaris under that license raises the possibility of collaboration. For example, Sun's DTrace probe technology or ZFS file system ...

Sun is expected to offer its own Sun Linux distribution and Solaris 8 -- and possibly Solaris 9 -- on the Intel-based server code-named Big Bear. Topics Spotlight: New Thinking about Cloud Computing ...

The latest update to Sun's Solaris operating system will include the 128-bit ZFS, an open-souce database and more predictive self-healing functionality for AMD platforms.

The software maker will announce version 9 of its Solaris operating system on Wednesday, along with a Microsoft-reminiscent strategy to integrate higher-level components.

The Linux operating system is governed by the GPL, so releasing Solaris under that license raises the possibility of collaboration. For example, Sun's DTrace probe technology or ZFS file system ...