BURLINGTON, Mass.--Sun Microsystems will create an open-source project around its Solaris 10 operating system by the end of the year, company executives said Monday. Through the initiative, Sun ...

Firm is expected to start sharing some source code of the OS and to detail its OpenSolaris plan on Tuesday. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital ...

Sun won approval last week from the Open Source Initiative (OSI) for its Community Development and Distribution License (CDDL), giving Sun official open-source status. The CDDL is widely expected to ...

Sun Microsystems has quietly begun seeking official open-source status for a new software license that likely will be used to govern its Solaris operating system. But the license may inhibit ...

"Make no mistake: we will open-source Solaris," said Sun President and COO Jonathan Schwartz at a Sun Network Computing event in Shanghai earlier this month. But what Sun means by "open source" is ...

ORLANDO, Fla.—In an exclusive interview with eWEEK.com at the Gartner Symposium and ITxpo here, Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy talked about Suns new service business model, the open-sourcing of ...

Sun Microsystems is touting the growth of its one-year-old open source project OpenSolaris, indicating the open code effort for its formerly closed Solaris operating system has drawn thousands of ...

As it readies Solaris 10, Sun develops an open-source project modeled on Apple's Darwin and Red Hat's Fedora. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He ...

After months of hinting about its intentions, Sun on Wednesday confirmed that it intends to release source code from its Solaris operating system under an open-source license. After months of hinting ...