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 ...

According to a leaked memo, Oracle will release Solaris source code only after its versions of the OS ship, a move that cuts off the OpenSolaris project. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

When Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems in 2010, the company inherited a venerable Unix solution that was already in decline. The Solaris operating system on Sun’s SPARC hardware was losing ground to ...

This announcement came after Oracle unceremoniously dumped its plan for the next major Solaris release, Solaris 12. Oracle claims "new features and functionality will be delivered in Oracle Solaris ...

On November 9, Oracle officially launched Solaris 11, the latest generation of the operating system it acquired with Sun Microsystems. Oracle is hyping the latest version of Solaris as the “first ...

An internal Oracle memo that was released last week provides a detailed summary of the company’s plans for the Solaris operating system, which Oracle obtained when it acquired Sun. The memo offers a ...