I don't think that Oracle's Solaris/SPARC strategy does make sense. They just don't realise it yet. Sun thought that they could drop x86, but realised that Moore's law and economies of scale made ...

Oracle praised the Solaris operating system when it agreed to acquire its creator, Sun Microsystems , but the actual beauty of this fine piece of engineering was left unexplained. Here's a look at the ...

When it comes to Unix, Sun Microsystems’ Solaris operating system shines on the company’s 64-bit SPARC processors. Unfortunately, the picture is less bright for the version of Solaris written for ...

Larry Ellison doesn’t do “cheap.” The Oracle chairman isn’t interested in selling the low-cost one- and two-socket servers that make up a huge slice of the server market but yield little profit for ...

For Oracle application users the company is now pushing an integrated package with X86 servers preloaded with Sun Solaris and Oracle Linux operating systems and Oracle VM. From a power and cooling ...

New workload specific x86 servers have been introduced by Oracle. The Sun Server X4-4 and Sun Server X4-8 offer features in the hardware to dynamically adapt to workload specific requirements and ...

On Monday, Oracle officially launched the Sparc T4 microprocessor and a line of servers based on the new SPARC CPU. Oracle Systems Executive Vice President John Fowler claimed at the rollout event ...

Dell on Wednesday expanded on its budding Oracle relationship with the integration of Oracle management software for Dell solutions, as well as other software and services offerings, in a move that ...

This announcement came after Oracle unceremoniously dumped its plan for the next major Solaris release, Solaris 12. Oracle claims "new features and functionality will be delivered in Oracle Solaris ...

Oracle Solaris is a Unix-based operating system known for its scalability, security, and advanced features like ZFS and DTrace. If you are looking to use Solaris, you don’t have to create a separate ...

Larry Ellison doesn’t do “cheap.” The Oracle chairman isn’t interested in selling the low-cost one- and two-socket servers that make up a huge slice of the server market but yield little profit for ...