Sources familiar with the company's plans told CRN at JavaOne 2004 that Sun is not going to simply open up bits and pieces of the millions of lines of code in Solaris, Sun's popular Unix-based ...

Sun got closer to finally lifting the shades on the source code for its vaunted Solaris Unix-based operating system last week. The vendor said it would have Solaris code released to the Open Source ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. hopes that open-source Solaris will draw in new developers, new users and new growth opportunities. But the initial focus of the initiative may be more prosaic: device drivers.

IBM is still under fire from Xinuos about 2003-era bytes.

After months of hinting about its intentions, Sun on Wednesday confirmed that it intends to release source code from its Solaris operating system under an open-source license. After months of hinting ...

Sun Microsystems on Wednesday will begin donating its Solaris clustering code to the open-source community, the latest move in the company’s ongoing strategy to eventually make all of its software ...

Sun Microsystems Inc.’s announcement this week that it plans to make Solaris an “open-source” operating system was met with mixed reactions from users and skepticism from open-source advocates. “I’m ...

The move is surprising in that Sun and Oracle have historically been close allies, with Oracle among the first to adopt Sun's Java language in its products. Now Sun is encouraging the use of ...

An open letter to the Linux community published this week by Silicon Graphics indicates that SGI has conducted a comprehensive comparison of the Linux kernel and the Unix System V source code owned by ...

A compressed archive that contains what appears to be the full source for the kernel of the Solaris 11 operating system has found its way to file sharing sites, apparently leaked by a disgruntled ...