There was a time when “real” engineering workstations ran Linux Unix. Apollo and Sun were big names and Sun’s version was Solaris ... if you have an old SPARC machine — this could be ...

is that both Solaris and SPARC appear to have a future. The bad news is that the next major version of Solaris—Solaris 12— has apparently been canceled, as it has disappeared from the roadmap.

Case in point: Solaris 9 is already out for Sparc while the x86-version is still stuck at Solaris ... Will the Linux community open its arms or check its pockets? TalkBack below or write to ...

The company also announced a complete refresh of the SPARC server line and a new version of Solaris. At an event on the Sun Microsystems campus in Silicon Valley, the company played up the theme ...

Oracle has released a beta version of Solaris 11.2. But does Solaris and the Sparc server platform have a future? Oracle said the new operating system has been built as a modern cloud platform to ...