Oracle has sketched out a five-year road map for Sun’s Sparc-based servers, hoping to reassure customers about the future of the platform and reverse a pattern of declining sales. John Fowler, the ...

Oracle plans for Sparc to double app performance every other year; the company also announced Solaris 11 is coming next year Oracle has sketched out a five-year road map for Sun’s Sparc-based servers, ...

Oracle will halve the number of cores in its next Sparc processor and instead improve its single-thread performance, a weak area for the chip but one that’s important for running large databases and ...

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 ...

Oracle has sketched out a five-year road map for Sun’s Sparc-based servers, hoping to reassure customers about the future of the platform and reverse a pattern of declining sales. John Fowler, the ...