Solaris still sorta open, but OpenSolaris distro is dead An internal Oracle memo that was released last week provides a detailed summary of the company's plans for the Solaris operating system, which Oracle obtained when it acquired Sun. The memo offers a mix of good and bad news for Solaris enthusiasts. It reveals that Oracle is strongly committed to advancing the Solaris platform and intends to increase the availability of resources for Solaris development. 08/17/2010 | Software
Java co-creator James Gosling leaves Oracle Java co-creator James Gosling is saying good-bye to Oracle just a few months after the company acquired his longtime employer, Sun Microsystems. 04/12/2010 | Software
16- and 48-core monster chips on tap at next week's ISSCC Intel, IBM, Sun, AMD, and other chipmakers are set to unveil the details of a host of present and future processor designs at this year's International Solid State Circuits Conference. Let's take a look at each company's sessions, which cover processors that range from single-core to 48 cores, in turn. 02/08/2010 | Hardware
EU clears Oracle + Sun: If MySQL fails, there's always PostgreSQL In green-lighting Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems today, the European Commission says it considered whether in doing so, Oracle would effectively eliminate the "competitive constraint" of competition from the open source field by way of MySQL, the open source relational database that Sun acquired in 2008. 01/22/2010 | Analytics
