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Sun Microsystems Inc. is adding support services for its Solaris operating system on x86 platforms in a bid to compete with burgeoning Linux distributions.

Sun is clearly taking aim at…

Over the last few weeks, I have had a few people ask me why Sun didn't choose GPL v3 for Freeing the Java platform. "Does this mean you're siding with Linus?" they have asked me. "You must be,"…

Sun's chief open-source officer has backed the third version of the General Public License.

On a company blog, Simon Phipps said that existing work towards GPLv3 had been "extraordinary and…

Sun Microsystems and Canonical have nearly completed work to certify that the Ubuntu version of Linux runs smoothly on Sun's x86 servers, sources familiar with the situation said.

The…

John Fowler, executive vice president of Sun's server division, confirmed the development in an interview here Tuesday and suggested it will continue Sun's push to squeeze more processing cores…

Google is experimenting with the open-source version of Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Solaris operating system as a possible long-term prelude to replacing its massive global network of Linux servers,…

While there are several hundred open source software projects in the world, there are very few open hardware projects. The OpenSparc project, launched by Sun Microsystems to create an open source…

A start-up called Simply RISC has built a single-core variant of Sun Microsystems' UltraSparc T1, an indication of interest in Sun's plan to encourage others to adopt and modify open-source…

Sun Microsystems last week unveiled a portal that will detail its efforts to make its Java programming language available as open source code.

After the announcement, Bob Brewin, Sun's…