Posts tagged with: oracle

In case you haven't noticed, I've snuck that little image into my side bar →  Continue reading ►

As time goes on, more and more of the old Sun websites and domains are being shutdown and moved across to Oracle systems and domains.  Continue reading ►

This last weekend saw the switch off of Sunsolve and the migration of the old Sun support system across to Oracle's My Oracle Support. Unfortunately, one of the things lost was the incredible ease to locate and download patch clusters. Oracle doesn't seem to offer such an easy method, probably due to their historical reliance on CPU patches.  Continue reading ►

One question that is bound to cross people's minds now Solaris 11 Express is out:  Continue reading ►

As you may already know Oracle Solaris 11 is coming around about this time next year (I'm guessing @ 11:11 on 11 Nov '11 - NOTE: I have NO knowledge of the actual release date) and to help you prepare for the change and get you up to speed, Oracle has released the first build of Oracle Solaris 11 Express 2010.11.  Continue reading ►

After nearly a year since the last release of Solaris 10 (10/09), the latest release - Solaris 10 9/10 (aka update 9) is now available for download and it includes quite a lot of new features and of course the new Oracle branding. At this time it hasn't actually been announced, but I suspect it will be in this webcast later today.  Continue reading ►

Oracle's silence on the future of OpenSolaris planted the seeds of thought on the future of OpenSolaris and brought on a lot of speculation. Well, last week an email was leaked which confirmed everyone's fears: OpenSolaris is dead.  Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 26 Jul 2010 - 6 Aug 2010:  Continue reading ►

Yesterday Oracle announced that Dell and HP will certify and resell Oracle Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM on their respective x86 platforms. What wasn't clear from this was how this affects other vendors.  Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 6 Jul 2010 - 23 Jul 2010:  Continue reading ►