"Solaris 10 runs on the major volume platforms in the industry: SPARC, Intel and AMD. Contrary to popular opinion, the SPARC architecture is not a proprietary architecture. It is an industry standard and open source architecture that anyone can replicate. On the other hand, the Intel X86 architecture is considered propriety and can only be replicated using an expensive and legally difficult clean room reverse engineering process," said Jim Laurent in his Weblog.
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Here is yet another economy available from Sun, the Sun Identity Compliance Manager offering, which provides a portion of the existing Sun Role Manager functionality at a lower price point. It includes defined entitlements that grant the customer use of only the Compliance related functionality within Sun Role Manager 4.1. The Sun Identity Compliance Manager offering reduces the business risks and costs associated with enterprise access control through comprehensive identity auditing, access certification and policy enforcement.
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Brian Leonard and Marina Sum report on installing Sun Web Stack on the OpenSolaris OS. The writers escort users through the relatively few simple steps involved in the installation of Sun Web Stack, which Sun shipped in July. The solution, available as part of the Image Packaging System (IPS) package, contains popular, preconfigured tools for developing and running applications.
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Recently, Sun released Cool Stack 1.3.1. Shani, a Senior Staff Engineer in the Perormance & Applications Engineering Group (PAE),
reports, "This was the last release that was built to work on releases as old as Solaris 10 01/06 (Update 1). Going forward, future versions of the stack will only be supported on newer Solaris 10 updates. So I'd like to urge everyone who is running older releases to please schedule their systems for upgrade. We highly recommend that you upgrade to at least Solaris 10 01/08 (Update 5) as it has many performance, security and other fixes."
He continues, "to enable a unified stack, we are now transitioning Cool Stack to Sun Web Stack. This new stack was announced
in OSCON in July. It will be very similar to Cool Stack in that it will be separately downloadable but it will be a full-fledged product in that customers who want production support, can now purchase it. The stack will continue to be available free of charge with limited support via a forum."
The first version of Sun Web Stack will be 1.4 (keeping the Cool Stack versioning in place) and should be available in November.
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