Solaris News & Articles

As year moves toward a conclusion, it is time for a moment of reflection. Don’t worry this won’t involve any ghosts waking you from your eggnog fueled holiday slumber. We simply look back at the top five events of 2010 that were most meaningful in open source and will continue to influence the market in 2011 and beyond.

This year’s IOUG COLLABORATE conference was always going to be about Sun and what Oracle (news, site) was going to do with it. Over the course of the four days they’ve been doing all they can to reassure customers that it’s really a good thing.

Oracle (news, site) has announced that it has received regulatory approval from the European Commission for its acquisition of Sun Microsystems (news, site). The final hurdle -- unconditional approval from China and Russia -- is expected soon, after which the deal will be finally closed.

The deal was originally announced last April when Oracle and Sun finalized a financial package that included US$ 9.50 per share in cash. The transaction was valued at approximately US$ 7.4 billion. At the time Oracle said the deal would give clients long term strategic advantages as it would give them effective ownership of Java and Solaris.

Important across the entire software industry, for Oracle it’s something of a must. Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle’s fastest growing business, is built on top of Sun’s Java language and software. Oracle said the deal would result in continued innovation and investment in Java technology for the benefit of customers and the Java community.

The Sun Solaris operating system is the leading platform for the Oracle database. With the acquisition of Sun, Oracle can optimize the Oracle database for some of the, high-end features of Solaris.

The company will host an all-day live event for customers, partners, press and analysts on January 27th, 2010 at 9:00 AM Pacific time, at its headquarters in Redwood Shores, California. Stay tuned for more details and analysis of the deal and what it means for content management.

An integral part of Amazon’s cloud computing services is showing a sign of maturity, while adding a much anticipated element. The Elastic Compute Cloud (aka EC2), which facilitates a Linux server environment as a service for Web developers, has come out of beta.

Additionally, as previously rumored, Amazon.com has added an on-demand Windows Server environment to accompany the already existing OpenSolaris and Solaris Express Community Edition offerings.

With the introduction of the Sun Blade 6000 Family of server hardware, Sun Microsystems is hoping to make it easier for IT administrators to provide the kind of flexibility that software developers need to build truly innovative and revolutionary products.