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Sun Microsystems Inc. last week said the server software that supports its Sun Ray thin-client devices can now run on x86-based Linux systems in addition to Sparc/Solaris machines.

Oracle has moved Solaris onto its quarterly security patch schedule, meaning users of the Sun Microsystems operating system will now know months in advance when they will be getting security ...

Oracle has moved Solaris onto its quarterly security patch schedule, meaning users of the Sun Microsystems operating system will now know months in advance when they will be getting security ...

Sun just issued a press release claiming that its shipments of Sun Ray "thin client" systems nearly doubled. The most exciting part of the announcement was that the document was sent not as a text ...

Sun also will begin offering all of its software and Solaris upgrades at the same time to further enhance product integration, he said. In recent months, Sun executives have shed little light on ...

“Solaris,” the play, is based on a 1961 novel by Polish author Stanisław Lem. Staged by Scott Weinstein in the 56-seat Schwartz Stage at Edgewater’s Raven Theatre, the production marks the ...

If you compare the capital cost of a Wintel server and desktop architecture using Dell gear with 22" screens to that of a redundant SPARC/Sun Ray system with 24" screens, the Sun system comes in ...

Sun also plans to make Solaris open source, though it has not specified the terms of the license. Shares of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Sun closed unchanged at $3.94 on Nasdaq.