On a – video replay of the launch, Oracle President Mark Hurd calls Solaris 11 "the first cloud OS," and said things like, "With this OS: Game over." At one point he jokes about the event's low-key ...

Oracle has released its Solaris 11 operating system (OS), which the company previewed last month at the Oracle OpenWorld 2011 event in San Francisco. Solaris 11 provides built-in virtualization ...

Oracle has released version 11 of Solaris, the Unix-based operating system the company acquired when it purchased Sun Microsystems in 2010. The software, made generally available on Wednesday, was ...

At an event in NYC, Oracle president Mark Hurd and EVP John Fowler unveiled Solaris 11.2, which represents an evolution from operating system to a complete platform, they said. The phenomena of cloud ...

Oracle may end up merging the best of OpenSolaris with Linux once it takes control of Sun Microsystems, but it is unlikely to kill off Sun’s widely used Solaris OS, analysts said. On a conference call ...

Oracle is continuing to crack down on companies it claims are providing support services for its products in an illegal fashion. Last week, Oracle sued IT services providers Terix and Maintech, ...

Solaris is a key element of Oracle's "engineered systems" strategy that combines Oracle database, middleware and application software with Sun hardware to create turnkey systems. Solaris also powers ...

If you've been tracking the licensing and reselling of Oracle's Solaris operating system you can be forgiven for being a tad confused. What's going on? Oracle is likely getting better deals than Sun ...

Oracle has released version 11.4 of the Solaris operating system it inherited from Sun Microsystems. A point version of a legacy operating system may not sound like a milestone worth reporting, but ...

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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 ...

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