http://www.itworld.com/taxonomy/term/338/all xx http://www.itworld.com/development/80702/fate-some-sun-technologies-still-air Despite earlier assurances that Sun's technology will live on, questions remain over Sun's app server, IDE, and cloud platform. http://www.itworld.com/development/80702/fate-some-sun-technologies-still-air#comments Development Software News java MySQL Oracle Solaris Sun Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:30:06 -0400 ITworld staff 80702 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/business/77347/oracle-breaks-silence-sun-plans-ad 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. http://www.itworld.com/business/77347/oracle-breaks-silence-sun-plans-ad#comments Business Operating systems Server and data center News Oracle Solaris sparc Sun Unix Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:06:29 -0400 ITworld staff 77347 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/74910/getting-help-scat 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. http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/74910/getting-help-scat#comments IT management/strategy Operating systems How-to analysis core dump panic Sandra Henry-Stocker scat Solaris Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:47:31 -0400 Sandra Henry-Stocker 74910 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/open-source/68717/opensolaris-becoming-more-regular-solaris Lines are beginning to blur between the open source and commercial versions of the Sun Microsystems Solaris Unix operating system. http://www.itworld.com/open-source/68717/opensolaris-becoming-more-regular-solaris#comments Open Source Operating systems News OpenSolaris Solaris Sun Unix Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:39:41 -0400 ITworld staff 68717 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/67287/last-hurrah-sun-updates-solaris-nehalem-features 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. http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/67287/last-hurrah-sun-updates-solaris-nehalem-features#comments Open Source Operating systems News Oracle Solaris Sun Unix Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:31:52 -0400 ITworld staff 67287 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/business/66743/users-oracle-has-lots-questions-answer-about-sun-deal Oracle Corp.'s planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc. is raising questions among users on, well, just about every aspect of the deal. http://www.itworld.com/business/66743/users-oracle-has-lots-questions-answer-about-sun-deal#comments Business Software News m&a MySQL Oracle Solaris Sun Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:52:26 -0400 ITworld staff 66743 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/open-source/66690/oracles-sun-buy-ellison-praises-solaris-snubs-ibm 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. http://www.itworld.com/open-source/66690/oracles-sun-buy-ellison-praises-solaris-snubs-ibm#comments Business Open Source Operating systems Software News IBM java Oracle Solaris Sun Unix Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:06:25 -0400 ITworld staff 66690 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/63244/hp-distribute-support-suns-solaris 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. http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/63244/hp-distribute-support-suns-solaris#comments Hardware Operating systems News HP Solaris Sun Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:45:49 -0500 ITworld staff 63244 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/61597/putting-old-systems-sleep 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. http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/61597/putting-old-systems-sleep#comments IT management/strategy Operating systems Best practice later reuse Sandra Henry-Stocker Solaris system shutdown Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:27:54 -0500 Sandra Henry-Stocker 61597 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/personal-tech/59945/7-zip-rescue 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! http://www.itworld.com/personal-tech/59945/7-zip-rescue#comments Open Source Personal tech Case study 7-Zip extract package iso.tar Sandra Henry-Stocker Solaris Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:55:54 -0500 Sandra Henry-Stocker 59945 at http://www.itworld.com