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By Tina Gasperson on November 17, 2008 Share Comments In 2005, when Slumberland faced end-of-lifecycle replacements of its proprietary Unix platform, its warehouse management system vendor suggested a move to ...

Computerworld newsletters! Solaris has been Sun Microsystems's bread-and-butter Unix system since 1992.

Solaris has been Sun Microsystems's bread-and-butter Unix system since 1992. While Unix platforms such as Solaris now are up against the open source Linux juggernaut, Sun maintains it has the technological ...

Linux is enjoying growth, with a contingent of devotees too large to be called a cult following at this point.

Solaris, meanwhile, has thrived as a longstanding, primary Unix platform geared to enterprises. But with Linux the object of all the buzz in the industry, can Sun's rival Solaris Unix OS hang on?

JerkBoB links to a story at the New York Times about the future prospects of Sun's Solaris, excerpting: "Linux is enjoying growth, with a contingent of devotees too large to be called a cult following at this point.

Solaris, meanwhile, has thrived as a longstanding, primary Unix platform geared to enterprises.

Writing software for more than one UNIX platform can be difficult. This tutorial covers tools and tricks that can make the process of supporting different UNIX platforms significantly easier at the code level.

I recently encountered this problem in a C++ program running on a 32-bit UNIX platform.

" File-sharing between Windows and Sun's OpenSolaris Unix platform is being bolstered through two projects at Sun.

Objective Development on Thursday unveiled Sharity 3.4 , an update to its UNIX platform SMB file system that adds several bug fixes and improved compatibility with NAS devices.