It's based on Sun Microsystems' Solaris, and came about when the company was trying to open-source its enterprise server OS ...

Next: New Solaris 11 OS, And HP's Reaction On the SPARC T-series processor side, Oracle's roadmap calls for servers configured with up to four server sockets and triple the single instruction ...

Oracle server shipments in the first quarter of this year fell 29.5 percent year-over-year, according to market-research firm Gartner. Solaris 11, the first major update to the Unix-based ...