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Oracle Makes Major Cuts to Solaris and SPARC Teams
Whilst Oracle has committed to support Solaris until the 2030s, the firm appears to have made substantial cuts to the Solaris and SPARC teams this weekend, potentially signalling a silent end-of-life for both products.
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Sun Opens Netscape Server Source
Sun's OpenSolaris project has released the Java Enterprise Server as open source under the BSD license. The is largely the same as their commerical product, which descends from the Netscape Enterprise Server of the 90's.
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Sun Hires Debian Linux Founder Ian Murdock to Run OS Platform Strategy
Ian Murdock, founder of Debian Linux, has been hired by Sun Microsystems to head up operating system platform strategy.
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Sun Targets Startups with New AMP and Solaris Offerings
Last week Sun made a number of announcements targeted at making Solaris more attractive to startups. Among the announcements was Solaris support for Apache, MySQL, and PHP effectively dropping the "L" from LAMP