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  • Oracle has a Sun spot

    Posted September 28, 2011 - 2:23 pm

    Oracle is pushing itself into a corner, a fantastic money-making corner, but a corner nonetheless.

  • Oracle making Java, Solaris certifications pricier

    Posted March 2, 2011 - 5:09 pm

    Later this year, Oracle will begin requiring people interested in gaining Java and Solaris certifications to attend "hands-on" training courses, at an additional cost of thousands of dollars.

  • McNealy: Sun could have won out over Linux

    Posted February 25, 2011 - 3:25 pm

    Former CEO says 'Google today would be running on Solaris' if Sun had not mishandled its OS.

  • Oracle highlights Solaris Unix plans

    Posted December 2, 2010 - 9:15 pm

    Solaris 11, due next year, will feature improvements in availability, security, and virtualization.

  • Why I Love Unix

    Posted October 27, 2010 - 7:48 am

    Sandra Henry-Stocker's long-standing and largely happy relationship with Unix has been an interesting and rewarding trek. If she hasn't helped you to love Unix, let her try just once more.

  • Oracle bolsters former Sun Unix platform

    Posted September 9, 2010 - 8:20 am

    Solaris gets enhancements to virtualization capabilities, performance, security, and scalability.

  • Unix How-To: Checking Responses with ckyorn

    Posted September 1, 2010 - 7:11 am

    In last week's column, we looked at ckrange, a Solaris tool for validating numeric responses in scripts. A related command, ckyorn (for "check yes or no"), ensures that a user responds with some version of yes or no. With similar behavior to ckrange, ckyorn has the same advantages of simplifying your code so that you don't have to check whether a user has entered y, Y, Yes, yes, n, N, No, no or even YeS or nO.

  • Unix How-To: Checking Responses with ckrange

    Posted August 25, 2010 - 10:53 am

    One of the all too common coding mistakes leading to security vulnerabilities is the failure to validate all entered data for accuracy. A defensive developer will consider all input to be evil until proven otherwise. Anyone writing scripts on Solaris has a leg up when it comes to input validation -- the versatile and wonderfully handy ckrange command.

  • Friday the 13th, Part II: Oracle Officially Ends OpenSolaris

    Posted August 13, 2010 - 2:18 pm

    An OpenSolaris developer leaks an apparent Oracle internal memo that details the end of the line for the OpenSolaris Project.

  • OpenSolaris Appears Missing from Oracle-Sun Party

    Posted January 27, 2010 - 3:31 pm

    There is a lot of news coming out of Silicon Valley today, as Oracle and Sun host a five-hour marathon briefing on just how Oracle's approved acquisition of Sun will effect both companies' present and future customers.

  • Great and Disappointing Operating Systems of the Decade

    Posted December 21, 2009 - 6:14 am

    There were literally hundreds of them from huge companies down to busy people with laptops: operating systems. Some found their way into microdevices, watches, refrigerators, mobile phones, cars, motorcycles, jets, even the International Space Station. Occasionally, they worked, and perhaps they worked well. Others, sadly, didn't-- or weren't the right thing at the right time. We name names.

  • Fate of some Sun technologies still up in the air

    Posted October 13, 2009 - 10:30 am

    Despite earlier assurances that Sun's technology will live on, questions remain over Sun's app server, IDE, and cloud platform.

  • Oracle breaks silence on Sun plans in ad

    Posted September 10, 2009 - 8:06 pm

    Oracle Corp. ended its silence Thursday on its post-merger plans for Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Unix systems in an advertisement aimed at Sun customers to keep them from leaving the Sparc and Solaris platforms.

  • Getting help with scat

    Posted August 18, 2009 - 12:47 pm

    Since we looked at mdb last week and probed into a core dump, we should take a quick look at another tool for analyzing core dumps. The "scat" tool provides an easy way to extract an extensive amount of information from a core dump and provide it to you in a relatively readable fashion (as readable as data from a core dump is ever likely to be). Once you start the tool, you can get some help figuring out what commands to use.

  • OpenSolaris is becoming more like regular Solaris

    Posted June 2, 2009 - 2:39 pm

    Lines are beginning to blur between the open source and commercial versions of the Sun Microsystems Solaris Unix operating system.

  • Last hurrah: Sun updates Solaris with Nehalem features

    Posted April 30, 2009 - 7:31 pm

    In the last major release before its acquisition by Oracle Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc. on Thursday made available version 10 05/09 of its venerable Solaris server operating system.

  • Users: Oracle has lots of questions to answer about Sun deal

    Posted April 21, 2009 - 10:52 am

    Oracle Corp.'s planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc. is raising questions among users on, well, just about every aspect of the deal.

  • Oracle's Sun buy: Ellison praises Solaris, snubs IBM

    Posted April 20, 2009 - 4:06 pm

    In explaining his decision to make the acquisition Monday, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison boiled down Sun into a company of two key assets: Java and the Solaris operating system.

  • HP to distribute, support Sun's Solaris

    Posted February 25, 2009 - 11:45 am

    Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems -- fierce competitors when it comes to hardware sales -- unveiled an expanded partnership on Wednesday that will see HP become a key distributor of Sun's Solaris 10 operating system.

  • Unix tip: Putting old systems to sleep

    Posted January 28, 2009 - 2:27 pm

    When you're about to shut down a system that isn't serving any useful purpose right now -- whether to save power or preserve an old environment -- it's a good idea to make sure it will reboot when needed without a lot of work. In today's column, we'll look at the proper procedure for putting a system to sleep.

  • Unix tip: 7-Zip to the rescue

    Posted December 30, 2008 - 3:55 pm

    Need to build or extract files from archives in a wide range of formats? Ever heard of 7-Zip? Now that I've used it, it goes into my standard tool set!

  • Using prtdiag to troubleshoot system problems

    Posted October 15, 2008 - 4:00 am

    Those amber warning lights on your servers are trying to tell you something. Want to know what they're trying to tell you? Take a look at the output of the "prtdiag -v" command and you might learn more about your system than you knew could be known.

  • Solaris exec touts Unix platform's strengths

    Posted October 13, 2008 - 2:03 pm

    Solaris has been Sun Microsystems's bread-and-butter Unix system since 1992. While Unix platforms such as Solaris now are up against the open source Linux juggernaut, Sun maintains it has the technological advantages and accommodations for open source to keep Solaris in the game. The company also cites important customer wins as evidence of the platform's continued strength. To hash out the state of Solaris in today's marketplace, InfoWorld editor at large Paul Krill recently met with Jim McHugh, vice president of Solaris marketing at Sun, at the company's Menlo Park, Calif., campus.

  • Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed?

    Posted September 24, 2008 - 2:09 pm

    Linux is enjoying growth, with a contingent of devotees too large to be called a cult following at this point. Solaris, meanwhile, has thrived as a longstanding, primary Unix platform geared to enterprises. But with Linux the object of all the buzz in the industry, can Sun's rival Solaris Unix OS hang on, or is it destined to be displaced by Linux altogether?

  • Setting up Jumpstart clients: Create a profile

    Posted July 17, 2008 - 3:38 pm

    Setting up client jumpstart profiles might seem tedious, but can save you a lot of time, particularly if you will be installing many identical systems.
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