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 ...

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Suppose someone high up in your organization announces that your data center choice between IBM's AIX on Power offerings and Sun's Solaris on SPARC line is more of a business decision than a ...

Oracle plans to broaden its range of virtualization offerings, thanks to a number of applications obtained in the Sun Microsystems acquisition, said Oracle chief architect Edward Screven. Screven was ...

For readers of A Certain Age, this may bring a tear to the eye. Reports have been circulating of the decision by Oracle to lay off a significant portion of the staff behind its Solaris operating ...

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Oracle Corp. is laying off hundreds of employees, documents filed with the California Employment Development Department show, and the biggest cuts appear to be hitting the teams working on the Solaris ...

Oracle’s plans for Solaris and Sparc, outlined in a presentation Tuesday by John Fowler, executive vice president of systems, are aimed at reassuring customers and channel partners about the ...

SANTA CLARA, USA: Sun Microsystems Inc. announced the completion of a significant security benchmark for the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS). Solaris 10 11/06 with Solaris Trusted Extensions has ...

Transitive's magic - Solaris/SPARC Apps and Hyper-V In the past, I posted about one of the important requirements of the next generation datacenter (NGDC), the ability to consolidate diverse ...

Transitive Corporation announced the release of Version 1.2 of its innovative QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/x86-64 solution. Just as server virtualization helped bridge the gap for legacy ...

I have it under good authority that it works well at least that is what I heard from a customer. In fact they did exactly what you said. Virtualized old Sparc app on VMWare and the performance went up ...