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Magic Quadrant identifies leaders in WAN Optimization
Virtualization, cloud services, and growing volumes of distributed data have pushed network demands to an all-time high. Download this latest Gartner report on WAN Optimization to guide your...
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Without Oracle support, OpenSolaris group breaks up
An end has come to a major part of Sun Microsystems' attempt to transform Solaris from a proprietary version of Unix to an open-source operating system built by others, too.
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Illumos begins OpenSolaris divorce proceedings
For now it's just a repository around the shell libraries, a small code base around which a development community could be created.
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OpenSolaris board in OpenRevolt against Oracle
One of Sun Microsystems' ambitious dreams, a vibrant open-source community for the Solaris operating system to rival the Linux collective, is in serious danger of evaporating in the Oracle era.
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Oracle Solaris, Linux, and OpenSolaris
Some people have been speculating rather wildly about the fates of both OpenSolaris and Oracle's Linux support now that the company is lining up solidly behind SPARC/Solaris. The nay prayers are...
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Will OpenSolaris survive Oracle?
It's pretty clear that the programming of a few little features don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy software world.
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Quick thoughts on the (possible) demise of OpenSolaris
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes that the "writing is on the wall. OpenSolaris is on its way out." Is it really? And what does that mean for the FOSS landscape? It makes more sense for Oracle to...
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OpenSolaris 2009.06 Release
Sun Microsystems' OpenSolaris June 2009 release boasts a number of significant usability and performance improvements.
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OpenSolaris 2009.06: Getting Better All The Time
The June 2009 (2009.06) release of OpenSolaris provides a solid Open Source GNOME desktop experience like that of a modern Linux distribution combined with the scalability and stability of...
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Frugal Friday: Palm Pre, OpenSolaris, Bing, OOMA
In this installment of Frugal Friday, fellow techie and former Palm afficionado Scott Raymond and I discuss the Palm Pre, the new OpenSolaris 2009.06 release, Microsoft's Bing decision engine,...
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What happens for Linux if IBM does buy Sun?
Rumor has it, IBM is looking at buying Sun. No surprise that we're seeing consolidation in a down market, but will this mean consolidation in the open source space? I'll let others speculate on...
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Crossbow's golden arrows
Sun's Project Crossbow, now in the OpenSolaris code base, separates physical network interfaces from the OS code accessing that hardware - meaning superficially that it virtualizes networks, more...
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Sun upgrades OpenSolaris, signs OEM deal with Toshiba
The flurry of recent Linux PC announcements illustrates renewed hope that the open source desktop has a better shot in this economic climate. Sun is hoping its own open source Unix desktop has...
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Can Linux and Solaris be married?
Nexenta (its symbol is a giraffe) combines the OpenSolaris kernel with Userland, the open source filesystem.
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What drives customer demand for Solaris/x86? Fear of failure
I think the short answer to "what happened to growth in the OpenSolaris community" is Ian Murdock; but the longer answer is that growth continues but enthusiasm lags and the commercial...
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I swear, this is not another Unixfication post
Photo: Jeff Bonwick and Linus Torvalds I was resolved not to write another Unixfication story until I had more concrete news of Sun and Linus actually working together, and filed it away under...
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What's wrong at OpenSolaris
What's wrong with Sun's "project Indiana" beyond the authoritarian way it was pushed through? Basicaly, I see making Solaris more Linux-like as dragging Solaris down market when the same effort...
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How does OpenSolaris fare for Ed Tech?
In a nutshell, just fine. It's Unix, it's stable, it's robust, it's free, and includes a solid repository of free software. The real question is, does it have a place in Ed Tech? It's certainly...
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News to know: SAP; Hacking NASA; Apple; OpenSolaris
Notable headlines: Nate McFeters: Hacking NASA: One small step for man, one giant leap for hackers? Common misconceptions about database security Sapphire 2008: Dennis Howlett: The changing...
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OpenSolaris released, aimed at storage market
Sun is officially launching OpenSolaris at its Community One developer conference this morning today in San Francisco.
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OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows up
What would Ubuntu be like if it were an OS for grown-ups? This week at its CommunityOne event in San Francisco, Sun will release its May 2008 build of OpenSolaris (2008.05) the Open Source...
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