In the past year since Sun open sourced the SolarisTM Operating System (Solaris OS), the OpenSolaris community has grown to more than 14,000 members.

Rich Green, executive vice president of Software at Sun, commented on the success: "This tremendous growth is a direct result of our three part strategy to invest in and deliver the most advanced operating system on the planet, adopt a new Software as a Service business model, and reinvigorate the Sun developer community with free and open source software."

New customers using the Solaris 10 OS include the University of Ulm in Germany, which is using Solaris 10 OS to migrate their home directories. A Customer Lifecycle Marketing company called Parago is testing SolarisTM ZFS with their database, according to a Sun press release.

To join the community, visit their home page.

6/06 Update of Solaris 10 OS Released

The Solaris 10 OS 6/06 update adds new features to the OS:

• Solaris ZFS 1.0, a revolutionary new file system that can provide one of the highest levels of data integrity and security
• PostgreSQL for Solaris OS
• Predictive Self-Healing for x86 and x64 servers equipped with the AMD Opteron processor
• New high-performance networking functionality

Sun will offer Software Service Plans to support customers who are using the PostgreSQL open source database on Solaris 10 OS. Learn more by clicking here. [...read more...]

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