Sun Microsystems Inc. hopes that open-source Solaris will draw in new developers, new users and new growth opportunities. But the initial focus of the initiative may be more prosaic: device drivers.

* Sun to offer Solaris as an open source platform Sun got closer to finally lifting the shades on the source code for its vaunted Solaris Unix-based operating system last week. The vendor said it ...

Sources familiar with the company's plans told CRN at JavaOne 2004 that Sun is not going to simply open up bits and pieces of the millions of lines of code in Solaris, Sun's popular Unix-based ...

Sun Microsystems Inc.’s announcement this week that it plans to make Solaris an “open-source” operating system was met with mixed reactions from users and skepticism from open-source advocates. “I’m ...

Sun is scheduled to hold a press conference Tuesday to show good faith and demonstrate its commitment to open source the bulk of Solaris 10 by making DTrace, or dynamic tracing utility, available ...

Sun Microsystems on Wednesday will begin donating its Solaris clustering code to the open-source community, the latest move in the company’s ongoing strategy to eventually make all of its software ...

The company will open source Solaris Cluster 3.2 so developers can add high-availability and failover to applications Two years after it first offered open source code for Solaris, Sun Wednesday said ...