WASHINGTON — At its quarterly product-launch announcement here last week, Sun Microsystems Inc. touted the fact that there have been 1.3 million downloads of Solaris 10 since the operating system was ...

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With the new Solaris 10, Sun is moving its stalwart NOS from proprietary hardware to off-the-rack Intel- and AMD-powered boxes. And since the download is free, it behooves any IT manager to load it on ...

More interesting things for me: Zones P2V for Solaris 10 (they've had it for older versions for branded zones). ZFS update (don't know which specific version yet, at least 19). Triple parity RAIDZ3, ...

Oracle's decision to limit Solaris 10's free usage to 90 days could be a boon for Linux vendors Recent changes to Solaris licensing could further encourage Solaris 10 users to consider Linux — and ...