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 ...

Oracle has released version 11.4 of the Solaris operating system it inherited from Sun Microsystems. A point version of a legacy operating system may not sound like a milestone worth reporting, but ...

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 ...

Now that Oracle has completed its acquisition of Sun, its strategy for Solaris customer support is becoming more clear. And that starts with changes to the license and support terms that may limit use ...

Oracle has updated its Unix-based operating system Solaris, adding some features that would make the OS more suitable for running cloud deployments, as well as integrating it more tightly with other ...

Solaris 10, the official stable version of Sun's UNIX operating system, is no longer available to users at no cost. Oracle has adjusted the terms of the license, which now requires users to purchase a ...

A vulnerability in some versions of the Oracle Solaris enterprise OS could allow attackers to edit code in the memory and exploit it to gain full root control over a machine. The privilege escalation ...

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 ...

The source code for Oracle's Solaris 11 operating system is now out in the open for anyone to peruse and compile, thanks to a furtive posting of a compressed archive that has been mirrored across ...

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 Corp. apparently has made a fresh round of job cuts, this time affecting its Solaris and Scalable Processor Architecture business units. The layoffs were revealed a few days ago by a number of ...