Ashlee Vance and James Niccolai

Despite efforts to sell its own application server software, Sun Microsystems Inc. on Monday opened its arms a little further to rival and partner BEA Systems Inc. by agreeing to ship an evaluation copy of BEA's WebLogic Server with the Solaris 9 operating system.

Despite efforts to sell its own application server software, Sun Microsystems Inc. on Monday opened its arms a little further to rival and partner BEA Systems Inc. by agreeing to ship an evaluation copy of BEA's WebLogic Server with the Solaris 9 operating system.

Sun Microsystems Inc. rolled out the latest upgrade to its Solaris operating system Wednesday, announcing a plan to add key middleware and management components that broaden the capabilities of its Unix platform.

Sun Microsystems rolled out the latest upgrade to its Solaris operating system on May 22, announcing a plan to add key middleware and management components that broaden the capabilities of its Unix platform.