Tag archive: Solaris

During a press conference earlier in the week, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison announced the SPARC Supercluster, an enterprise system made up of the Solaris operating system, ZFS storage technology, and Sun Microsystems processing power. The full specifications, according to Chicago Independent Press: The hardware configuration used to achieve the record was a single SPARC Supercluster with 108 SPARC T3 chips, for a total of 1,728 processor cores. The… Read More

Oracle has announced that it has completed its takeover of Sun Microsystems, concluding a deal values at over $7 billion and which wound slowly through the processes of antitrust regulators in both the United States and the European Union. The deal makes the world's largest maker of database software into a hardware company which will manufacture servers, storage solutions, and other high-end hardware, as well as take over Sun's… Read More

Sun previously charged $20 for evaluation copies of Solaris x86, the version for servers running chips from Intel or Advanced Micro Devices. Starting Dec. 9, Sun eliminated the download price. “This move will enable Sun's many customers that are unable to place orders in U.S. dollars–for example in Asia and Europe–to download Solaris easily,” the company said in a statement.

Sun is shifting away from mainly offering expensive high-end servers running its chips and its Solaris version of the Unix operating system and embracing lower-priced hardware systems with cheaper software alternatives. Sun has been struggling as it copes with shrinking market share, layoffs and 10 consecutive quarters of revenue declines In a move widely expected by analysts, Sun Chief Executive Scott McNealy told an audience at Comdex,… Read More