Storage is the uncontrolled part of IT expenditure. That's a temptation that few hardware vendors can resist.

Analyst firm Gartner argues that combining data centre networks can often create more problems that it solves

As Oracle cemented its purchase of Sun last week, the head of open source at Sun left to take up a post at the Open Source Initiative

The networking giant is moving into the portable container data centre market

SPARC servers and Solaris are key to its single-stack approach, says Oracle. But should customers believe it?

Make no mistake - The hedge fund offer for Novell could effectively mean the end of the company. And Microsoft could suffer the worst, says Peter Judge

Oracle says it is not killing off the freely down-loadable community version of Sun's Unix-based Solaris enterprise operating system anytime soon