Back in 2014, Oracle had indicated in its roadmap that Solaris 12 would appear in 2017 and would be developed over the next two years. Oracle became the owner of Solaris, an operating system developed ...

This announcement came after Oracle unceremoniously dumped its plan for the next major Solaris release, Solaris 12. Oracle claims "new features and functionality will be delivered in Oracle Solaris ...

When Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems in 2010, the company inherited a venerable Unix solution that was already in decline. The Solaris operating system on Sun’s SPARC hardware was losing ground to ...

Rumors have been circulating since late last year that Oracle was planning to kill development of the Solaris operating system, with major layoffs coming to the operating system’s development team.

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After the Shadow Brokers group opened up its archive of exploits allegedly stolen from the United States National Security Agency, security experts found a nasty surprise waiting for Solaris ...