Sun Microsystems has agreed to acquire Aduva, a small company whose products automate the installation of software patches on large numbers of Solaris or Linux computers.
Sun Microsystems has fulfilled its pledge to make its newest version of the Solaris operating system available for free.
Sun Microsystems will create an open-source project around its Solaris 10 operating system by the end of the year, company executives said Monday.
Sun Microsystems will build software into its forthcoming Solaris 10 version of Unix to run Linux applications unchanged.
Lack of funding may force free software portal Blastwave, one of the only sources for pre-packaged Solaris software, to close its doors.
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Red Hat and Sun Microsystems are gearing up to sell Linux for desktop computers, the companies' chief executives said Tuesday.
Sun would like to think it can succeed where others have failedÂÂâ€"in breaking Microsoft's stranglehold on the office productivity marketâ€"by offering a product that's almost as good as Microsoft Office at a much lower price. Do the sums add up?
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