Without a doubt, one of the most interesting features of Solaris 10 is its ability to establish numerous virtual systems on a single Solaris box — a concept known as “zones”.

Oracle Solaris Zones has 15 times less overhead than a VMware implementation, Oracle asserted in its marketing literature. The company also touted that Zones had no artificial limitations set on ...

Sun has had limited success in the past in creating ways for Linux or Windows to run their applications under Solaris, generally because these programs have taken a performance hit in the process ...