Sun Microsystems has met its self-imposed duty to share the source code of its flagship Solaris operating system. Today marked the beginning of the OpenSolaris project, which Sun celebrated by ...

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.

As expected, Sun Microsystems has taken the lid off of OpenSolaris. Sun is celebrating by blogging the event with special launch day content. Once it is fully released, Solaris will have contributed ...

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 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 ...