Is the Sun setting on Oracle's Solaris business?
Reports of redundancies within Oracle's Solaris and SPARC teams raise questions over the future of the Oracle offerings.
Reports of redundancies within Oracle's Solaris and SPARC teams raise questions over the future of the Oracle offerings.
Oracle has sketched out a five-year road map for Sun's Sparc-based servers, hoping to reassure customers about the future of the platform and reverse a pattern of declining sales.
Oracle has presented an overview of its ambitions for its newly acquired Sun products, focusing on integrated systems offering everything from the application to the database, servers and storage.
Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems -- fierce competitors when it comes to hardware sales -- unveiled an expanded partnership on Wednesday that will see HP become a key distributor of Sun's Solaris 10 operating system.
Sun Microsystems's focus on releasing software products such as Java and its Solaris operating system as open source technologies leads to a question that Jonathan Schwartz, the company's president and CEO, asks rhetorically: "How do we make money on this?"