Oracle introduced the biggest update to its Solaris operating system in nearly a decade Wednesday. By all accounts it was a classy event, held at Gotham Hall in New York. We can't tell you much about ...

Sun Microsystems releases an update to its Unix-based operating system that includes, for the first time, the GNOME open-source graphical interface. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

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 the ...

Oracle has released a beta version of Solaris 11.2. But does Solaris and the Sparc server platform have a future? Oracle said the new operating system has been built as a modern cloud platform to ...

The company takes additional steps in its effort to increase the hardware support that's needed to make a version of its Solaris operating system for Intel processors useful. Stephen Shankland worked ...