IBM remains the world's largest hardware vendor and Alliance Lite is part of an initiative to retain that position by keeping customers loyal and reducing the risk of them migrating to Sun- or Intel-based hardware platforms where ecommerce...
With Solaris 9, Sun repositions the OS as a strategic asset in lowering TCO for hundreds of servers in multi-tiered networks. Then, through H1 04, Sun will likely tout Solaris as a 'meta OS' for managing all resources including servers, storage and...
Two main features will be "Orion," Sun's plan to integrate more of its higher-level software into its Solaris operating system and sell it on a subscription basis, and "throughput computing," the use of chip technology from Sun's acquisition of...
In other software announcements set for Tuesday, Sun is expected to unveil a more secure version of the standard edition of its Solaris operating system. Trusted Solaris Standard Edition, which starts at $999, adds the security architecture from a...
It's important to note that since I first started writing about the growth of open source in around 1999, both Linux and Windows have both been growing at the expense of Novell, Sun Solaris and Unix but from now on, as Gartner warns, Microsoft, is...
The religious differences between Linux and Windows will also become less of an issue as developers choose to write to J2EE or .NET rather than the OS layer, said Dawson. Despite making attempts to give Solaris an open-source spin, Dawson said Sun...