The company has released an update for Solaris 8, its version of the Unix operating system, which the company said can distribute web pages faster and is easier to manage. IBM, for example, claims to have put AIX ahead of Sun Microsystems' Solaris...
Sun Microsystems, for example, took its Solaris operating system from 2.5 to 2.6 but when it got to 2.7, it changed its naming convention, labelling the product Solaris 7 to signal it was an important new release.
Software called Project Janus will let programs for Linux on x86 run unmodified on Solaris on x86, said John Loiacono, senior vice president of Sun's operating platforms group. Sun is also working to boost software support for the version of...
Then as the application runs, it indexes new documents and visited web pages in real time. The company, which will report earnings for the first time as a public company next week, has created Google Desktop Search, a thin-client application that...
The clearest impact of 64-bit computing is the ability to deal with more than 4GB of physical memory. Imagine, how fast searching might be if all of one's email, for example, were loaded into memory. The company will start selling 64-bit editions...
Though it typically runs Sun's Solaris operating system, Sun wants to build support for Linux as well. One change in this domain is improvement in how Linux handles Numa - non-uniform memory access. Large servers most often divide memory so it's in...
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