Sun Microsystems Inc. hopes that open-source Solaris will draw in new developers, new users and new growth opportunities. But the initial focus of the initiative may be more prosaic: device drivers.

Sun won approval last week from the Open Source Initiative (OSI) for its Community Development and Distribution License (CDDL), giving Sun official open-source status. The CDDL is widely expected to ...

Sun will release the source code of its operating system, but those eager for details may have to wait until early 2005. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

After months of hinting about its intentions, Sun on Wednesday confirmed that it intends to release source code from its Solaris operating system under an open-source license. After months of hinting ...

The ostensible confusion within Sun over the relationship between its first-born Solaris and sibling-rival Linux won’t be cleared up by the open source license it submitted to the Open Source ...

Sun Microsystems this week finally unveiled its long-anticipated open source program for Solaris and, showing a thing or two to IBM, released 1,670 patents to the community at large. This is far in ...