Oracle delivers Oracle Solaris 11 Express, a new version of the Solaris operating system aimed at developers and serving as a preview of Oracle Solaris 11. – Oracle
has delivered Oracle Solaris 11 Express, the latest version of the Solaris
operating system the company bought in its acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
However, the new quot;Express quot; release is aimed at developers as a
preview to the full version of Solaris 11, which is yet to come i…
Jeff Bonwick, known as the father of ZFS, the innovative file system in the Solaris operating system, is leaving Oracle to join a startup. – Another
key former Sun Microsystems engineer is leaving Oracle. This time it is Jeff
Bonwick, the leader of the team that created ZFS, the file system in the
Solaris operating system.
In
a Sept. 27
blog post, Bonwick said he will leave
Oracle as of Sept. 30 to begin anew at a startup that i…
Oracle has updated the Solaris operating system the company gained in its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, delivering a new version of the core OS and more. – Oracle
has updated the Solaris operating system the company gained in its acquisition
of Sun Microsystems, delivering a new version of the core operating system, an
update to the Solaris clustering software, and a set of tools and compilers for
developing applications on the new Oracle Solaris 1…
Sun Microsystems officials are touting the work Sun and Intel have done over the past two years to ensure that Solaris works seamlessly with Intel’s chip microarchitecture code-named Nehalem. Intel officials have said they expect servers powered by the eight-core Nehalem EX processor to begin appearing on the market in early 2010. Sun says Solaris has been able to take advantage of the various power, cooling, virtualization and management features in the upcoming Xeon processors.
– Sun Microsystems officials are touting the performance of the Solaris
operating system when run on servers powered by Intel’s upcoming quot;Nehalem
EX quot; processors.
In a recent white
paper, Sun officials said the tight collaboration with Intel over the past
two years has resulted in a Sola…
