Is the Sun Setting on Sun Microsystems? [November 18, 2008]Is the company taking steps to cut its way to profitability and prominence, or is it just looking for a graceful exit -- and a friendly buyer?
OSCON: Sun Loses PostgreSQL Lead [July 25, 2008]Sun has been supporting the PostgreSQL database since November 2005. A few months later, it hired PostgreSQL core team member Josh Berkusm to be PostgreSQL Lead for Sun's Database Technology Group.
Sun's New Web Stack Shines on Linux [July 25, 2008]Sun's latest move delivers a standardized stack across a variety of OSes in the hopes of displacing traditional offerings from Linux vendors.
OS Roundup: Looking Beyond Unix [July 16, 2008]Unix, as an OS for consumers and artsy types? Linux, standard fare in the enterprise? Microsoft, moving beyond selling proprietary, packaged software? The times, indeed, are a-changing, and Enterprise Unix Roundup is changing, too.
OS Roundup: Looking Beyond Unix [July 16, 2008]Unix, as an OS for consumers and artsy types? Linux, standard fare in the enterprise? Microsoft, moving beyond selling proprietary, packaged software? The times, indeed, are a-changing, and Enterprise Unix Roundup is changing, too.
Tip of the Trade: OpenSolaris liveCD [June 9, 2008]Want to test drive OpenSolaris but don't want to deal with the convoluted installation? OpenSolaris liveCD from the OpenSolaris team streamlines the process and brings a raft of add-ons from the GNU/Linux world.
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Enterprises, rev your engines. Solaris 10 is on its way. We take the latest version of the operating system out for a test drive. Read Entire Review
Futureproofing/scalability .Net compliant 64-bit port Cluster support IPv6 support J2EE 1.4 certified J2EE 1.4 compliant
Other Features Multiple logs Supports Microsoft ISAPI Virtual servers Web-based user interface
Programming/Scripting Includes source Own API Own scripting/batch language Supports external scripting/batch language
Security ActiveDirectory authentication Antispam features Antivirus features Built-in firewall capabilities Built-in proxy capabilities Internal user access scheme LDAP authentication Other/system authentication SSL (hardware) SSL (software)
Support Commercial support available Forum support Free telephone support GSA scheduled Mailing list support Service-level agreement offerings available
News Apache Maven Goes Commercial [November 12, 2008]
The widely deployed, open source Java project management project has mapped out a plan to become a viable open source company.
Tutorials Internals of SQL Cluster Setup and Troubleshooting Tips [November 11, 2008]
Setting up SQL Cluster Setup is simple. After that it gets dicey. This article steps through SQL server setup functions, configuring a second node to be cluster-aware, and the all-registry entries and their significance created during the setup.
Reviews Zimbra Collaboration Server, Keeping the Discussion Going [October 7, 2008]
It's been more than a year since Yahoo! bought the open source mail server company Zimbra, and people are still talking about the technology. We put the most recent version through the paces.
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