Sun Microsystems Inc. last week announced an upgraded application server that will support multiple operating systems, raising the ante on an effort to broaden the use of its middleware beyond ...

The company unveiled its first-ever servers based on Intel microprocessors, offering customers and solution providers a choice of Linux and Solaris operating systems. "This is a new hardware direction ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. has a busy week planned for the LinuxWorld conference next month. First up, Sun is expected to release its first general-purpose server, code-named Big Bear, to run the Linux ...

The two technology vendors, who compete in the server hardware business, on Wednesday unveiled the expansion of a multiyear partnership agreement under which HP will distribute and provide technical ...

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Sun Microsystems and Dell announced Wednesday a distribution agreement under which Dell will distribute Sun's Solaris 10 operating system on Dell PowerEdge servers. Under the multiyear agreement, Dell ...

Sun Microsystems is considering a dual-licensing move that could raise tantalizing possibilities of open-source cooperation between Linux and Sun's Solaris operating system, but legal issues ...

SAN FRANCISCO--With its next version of the Solaris operating system, Sun Microsystems plans to take a new direction with its technology to divide a server into a large number of independent ...