IBM has shed light on an agreement with Sun that gives its customers the option of choosing Sun's Unix-based Solaris 10 as the operating system on IBM's x86-based System x or BladeCenter servers.
Sun Microsystems and Dell announced a distribution deal on Wednesday that will see Dell's PowerEdge servers shipped with Sun's Solaris 10 operating system.
Sun Microsystems has hired Ian Murdock, who founded the Debian version of Linux and who has held various posts involving the open-source operating system.
Sun Microsystems has revealed the outline of a project code-named Indiana, an effort to package up the OpenSolaris operating system into a convenient and usable "distribution" in the mould of Linux.
Sun Microsystem's Jonathon Schwartz said in the US yesterday that ZFS would be the "file system" for Leopard, Apple's forthcoming operating system.
Last week I had the chance to hear HP give their world view on why you should join them and Intel on Itanium for your next generation of servers.
Graham Dawson talks about the future of iPhone app development and augmented reality.
Today I'm taking a dip into the most interesting patents -- and patently silly ideas -- and what manner of messed-up services may be coming to your handset before too long, including the fertility phone, smellophone and Feng Shui phone.
Some suggestions of New Year's Resolutions for the Australian telecommunications industry.
Is securify a real word? Of course not. It is a term I first heard during a press conference when global services firm EDS was announcing its Agility Alliance in Sydney last March.
Sun Microsystems has said that it would sell general-purpose Linux servers, a dramatic departure for the company that for years has advocated the use of its own Solaris operating system.
Adobe's attempt to bring its AIR platform to all handheld devices smells strongly of Sun's attempt to dominate the smartphone market with Java. But will the software giant's efforts suffer the same fate?
Lindows on Monday unveiled the latest version of its low-cost operating system aimed at bringing Linux to the masses.
When Telstra launched its IT transformation in 2005, then chief operations officer Greg Winn said "IT is the root of all evil in the telco industry".
According to Eric Raymond, every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch. But is it also the developers' interests that get served?
At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Dell CEO Michael Dell share the stage to announce that Sun's open-source operating system, Solaris, will be shipping on Dell servers.
Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations at Facebook, talks with CNET News.com Editor in Chief Dan Farber about devising the infrastructure to support the social network's hypergrowth.
SuSE plans to announce in January an effort to bring the open-source Linux operating system to desktop computers, an attack on Microsoft that will be bolder than similar initiatives from Red Hat and Sun Microsystems.
Lindows on Monday unveiled the latest version of its low-cost operating system aimed at bringing Linux to the masses.
Sun Microsystem's Sun Fire X4275 is an excellent all-rounder, although we'd love it if the noise could be cut down a little more.
Parts of the newest version of Red Hat's Linux software slipped onto the Internet Wednesday, nearly a week before the operating system's official release date, giving glimpses of a product with a new focus on mainstream computer users.
IBM's work on the AIX 5L Unix operating system will bear fruit this year, with version 5.1 enabling systems to incorporate Power 4 chips or Intel's Itanium for the first time.
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