With the introduction of its SolarisTM 9 x86 Operating Environment (Solaris OE), Sun has moved to guarantee customer continuity and global support for the UNIXR operating system on the entire SPARCR and x86 line, as well as on third-party x86 systems. The release gives users a proven, secure enterprise-class OS for entry-level servers at a price lower than Microsoft's Windows servers. Within the calendar year, Sun expects to deliver an integrated SunTM Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) software portfolio for the Solaris 9 x86 Platform Edition.

"Enterprise requirements are simple -- security, scalability, global support and price/performance," said Jonathan Schwartz, executive vice president, software, Sun Microsystems. "As the only leading vendor to increase its investment in UNIX, Sun with its Solaris OS now combines legendary security, unparalleled price/performance, product stability and a growing commitment to both x86 and SPARC systems. With the evolving functionality of the JavaTM platform and Sun ONE portfolio, Sun now stands alone in redoubling its commitment to UNIX and in lowering costs and increasing security in a tight spending environment."

"BEA believes that customers will respond favorably to Solaris x86, and be able to benefit from the experience BEA and Sun have in optimizing and tuning our software on Solaris," said John Gray, vice president of Global Alliances, BEA Systems. "BEA looks forward to supporting this extension to the Solaris platform."

"The Quantiva Analysis System (QAS) tests Web application performance using advanced statistical analysis and diagnostic algorithms, so it is absolutely critical for us to have a robust operating system capable of supporting massive numerical computing tasks across scores of distributed systems," said Ron Hiller, founder and CTO of Quantiva, Inc. "QAS runs on Solaris x86 machines with uptimes of over 600 consecutive days, distributed across the Internet. As an added plus, we will be able to easily migrate to SPARC as our application suite broadens."

New integrated server technologies that come with Solaris 9 x86 Platform Edition include the SunScreenTM 3.2 software firewall, the SunTM ONE Directory Server 5.1 (formerly known as the iPlanetTM Directory Server), IPQoS services for bandwidth management, the SolarisTM 9 Resource Manager software, SolarisTM Volume Manager software, production quality support for IPv6 and a secure shell protocol for heterogeneous secure remote access. These technologies add to an impressive list of Reliability, Availability, Serviceability (RAS) features delivered in earlier releases. As a further inducement to users, Sun offers the Solaris 9 x86 Platform Edition bundled with Solaris 9 Resource Manager software at no extra cost.

For x86 systems that include a Solaris OE license, see:

http://www.sun.com/lx50

To download the Solaris 9 x86 Platform Edition, go to:

http://wwws.sun.com/software/download

For full licensing and support information for the Solaris x86 Platform Edition, see:

http://www.sun.com/service/support/sw_only/solaris1.html

The Free SolarisSM Binary License Program for non-commercial use and use by non-profit organizations is described at:

http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/binaries [...read more...]

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