As part of a series of announcements this week, Sun said it was offering a Trusted Solaris Standard Edition for Unix-based SPARC processors and for Intel's x86 platform at a price of $999, as well ...

At a recent Sun Microsystems press event, Sun execs talked up plans to market the company’s Solaris Unix OS to startups and small-to-midsize businesses. “Open source is what [customers] want ...

The reason Sun has to keep Solaris 9 for x86 on hold is because developing, marketing, launching, and supporting it would be a largely philanthropic effort. There aren't many companies left ...

New technology in its Solaris operating system is critical for Sun to stave off other Unix sellers such as IBM and HP, and to encroach on the turf of IBM's higher-end servers.

Oracle praised the Solaris operating system when it agreed to acquire its creator, Sun Microsystems , but the actual beauty of this fine piece of engineering was left unexplained. Here's a look at ...

Sun also plans to make Solaris open source, though it has not specified the terms of the license. Shares of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Sun closed unchanged at $3.94 on Nasdaq.

McNealy was referring to Sun's end-of-fiscal-quarter bank balance of $7.4 billion. Sun plans to make Solaris 10 available for free download by the end of January, with versions available for Sparc-, ...

Sun Microsystems is changing the way it produces a secure version of its Solaris operating system, a decision that will mark the end of the product known as the Trusted Solaris Operating Environment.