As the pennies start to fall in the Oracle/Sun merger we're seeing a lot of fear and ignorance getting expressed as corporate confusion, insensitivity, and general silliness - the company's websites, ...

The enterprise server market belongs to Linux now. Clouds, web-servers, you name it, Linux runs it. One of the biggest reasons for this remains that Linux is cheaper than the alternatives. But that ...

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 conference call ...

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 ...

Oracle has announced the availability of Oracle Solaris Studio 12.3, a C, C++, and Fortran development platform for building fast, scalable enterprise applications for Oracle Solaris systems.

All of our backend processing has been running on Sun/Oracle Sparc systems under Solaris 8-11 for a number of years. In an effort to get out from under the pricey Oracle environment, we've recently ...