In an interview, Ian Murdock, formerly with the Linux Foundation and now with Sun, discusses the company's open-source efforts and how to monetize them Ian Murdock is vice president of developer and ...

newsmaker By making its cherished Solaris operating system open-source, Sun Microsystems has taken a huge step forward in a bid to recover its former shine during the late 90s. While some may see ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

Sun revealed Tuesday that OpenSolaris is now generally available from its opensolaris.org Web site. Observers said OpenSolaris, for instance, will allow Sun partners to bid on projects that require ...

Don't expect to see key features of OpenSolaris showing up in the Linux kernel, said a top Linux maintainer. At his LinuxWorld opening keynote, Andrew Morton made it very clear that the appointment of ...

Oracle may end up merging the best of OpenSolaris with Linux once it takes control of Sun Microsystems, but it is unlikely to kill off Sun’s widely used Solaris OS, analysts said. On a conference call ...

Ian Murdock is vice president of developer and community marketing at Sun Microsystems Inc. Prior to that, he was the founder of the Debian Linux distribution and chief technology officer at the Linux ...