Sun's Solaris [operating system] is big - not as an application server but as a basic platform, especially for billing in telcos. Indeed, Cap Gemini has recommended its internet and telco clients use Solaris for customer care, billing and ecommerce.
Sun Microsystems has released an update to its Solaris operating system that incorporates, for the first time, the Gnome open-source graphical interface. CDE still is the default for Solaris, but users may elect to use Gnome, a Sun representative...
Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu will merge their Sparc processor-based server lines by mid-2006, the companies said on Tuesday. Fujitsu for years has produced its own Sparc chip family, Sparc64, whose different hardware interface can't fit into Sun's...
These containers make a single version of the operating system appear to have multiple independent instances, and the technology works on x86 chips as well as Sparc chips from Sun and Fujitsu. Sun's first prong is a partnership with Fujitsu, which...
The majority of Solaris applications run on servers built on Sun's own Sparc processor but the company is aggressively promoting Solaris on x86 servers based on chips from Intel or AMD. Sun is now in the process of preparing for the project, which...
We've got the APL [Advanced Product Line] Sparc mainframe chip jointly developed with Fujitsu coming out early next year. We're one of three processor architectures - Intel-AMD being one, Sun and Fujitsu's Sparc being another and Power being...