Unfortunately, that didn’t seem to turn things around. Solaris on Sparc continued to lose ground to competitors and Oracle’s own hardware, the x86-based Exadata and Exalogic.

Suppose someone high up in your organization announces that your data center choice between IBM's AIX on Power offerings and Sun's Solaris on SPARC line is more of a business decision than a ...

It's a move many industry watchers were expecting, and further evidence to some that the company is winding down its investment in the Solaris-SPARC bundle.

Oracle plans to add Sparc- and Solaris-based virtual machine templates to its collection of pre-configured virtual machines.

When it comes to Unix, Sun Microsystems’ Solaris operating system shines on the company’s 64-bit SPARC processors. Unfortunately, the picture is less bright for the version of Solaris written ...

Oracle’s plans for Solaris and Sparc, outlined in a presentation Tuesday by John Fowler, executive vice president of systems, are aimed at reassuring customers and channel partners about the ...

Solaris 10 11/06 with Solaris Trusted Extensions achieved LSPP at EAL 4+ for both Sun x86/64 and SPARC systems while combining both desktop and server-based functionality.

I have an old NMS that runs on a Sparc machine running Solaris 8 and I'd like to put that on a VM instead. The problem is, VMware doesn't seem to support Sparc.I did some searching and I found ...

Sun Microsystems announced yesterday that it has successfully booted the Solaris 10 operating system on its high-end Rock Sparc processor for the first time. The milestone comes six weeks after ...

Oracle today delivered on its commitment to the SPARC platform, announcing a SPARC Solaris-based model of its Exalogic Elastic cloud system, the so-called cloud-in-the-box system that was ...

Six months after completing the deal to acquire Sun Microsystems, Oracle officials say Solaris 11 will arrive in 2011, and SPARC performance will at least double every other year through 2015.

I've been puzzled by Sun's Linux strategy for a long time. On the software side, things make sense: Linux is Unix, so supporting Linux in the short term brings new value to Solaris in the long term.