28.11.2007 - Almost two thirds of Irish IT experts say the main motivation for migrating to the Linux operating system from UNIX for use in servers is cost, according to a recent survey from Novel's ...

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 ...

Sun Microsystems, Inc., a leading contributor to the open source community, today previewed a new feature of the Solaris 10 OS, code named Project Janus. This new technology will allow customers to ...

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 to go ...

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 ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

When I interviewed Sun chief engineer Rob Gingell last August, he hinted at a blurring of the lines between Linux and Solaris, if not an outright merger. Said Gingell: "Five years from now, when all ...

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 ...

In my experience the biggest diffence between linux and solaris is the GNU utilities. The GNU tools that come with linux are missing in solaris. Tar, grep, sed, sh in solaris are all old. They are ...

Seldom is a data center asked to do less. More often, it's asked to do more with less—fewer computers and less power consumption. One significant industry discussion for the past few years has been ...

After nearly a year’s delay, Sun Microsystems Inc. has released software designed to let its Solaris operating system run Linux applications without any modification. The software, formerly called ...