In its beta release of Oracle Solaris Studio 12.3 the focus is on enhancements to performance, reliability and developer productivity, Oracle announces. In the area of accelerating performance, improvements, compiler and library optimizations for the newest Oracle Sun Enterprise Servers; acceleration of SPARC-based systems (incl. SPARC T4) that speed up application performance up to 3x over gcc, with up to a 40% boost over Sun Studio 12; and improvements in application performance of up to 1.5x over gcc and up to 20% faster than Sun Studio 12 for x-86-based systems figure prominently. Application observability has been improved by adding a new code analyzer that identifies common coding and memory access errors and by enabling application concurrency graphs and multi-process application profiling. Enhancements in the area of developer productivity include the capability of remote access from a Windows desktop in development of Oracle Solaris applications; the inclusion of Oracle Pro*C & OCI/OCCI Database development in Solaris Studio IDE; updated support for key open source runtime libraries, including BOOST and Apache C++; and the ability to build applications up to 20% faster than Studio 12.2 and up to 20% reduction in debug information size.
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Learn about the Oracle product support policies from "Oracle Lifetime Support Policy: Oracle and Sun System Software," a comprehensive tabulation of the Premium Support offerings available from Oracle. As the brochure indicates, Oracle Premier Support offers single-point accountability and the rights to major product releases for the complete technology stack, including Sun server and storage software, as well as database, middleware and applications software.
Oracle Premier Support lets users know from the outset and with certainty how long their Oracle products are supported. Oracle Premier Support provides a standard five year technical support period. For most products, Oracle extends the technical support period by offering an additional three years of Extended Support and indefinite Sustaining Support.
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Many of the software products produced by Sun Microsystems have been rebranded since the Oracle acquisition. This is a useful table mapping the old names to the new names along with links to the Oracle (or other) home pages for those products.
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Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 is out, along with Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.3 and Oracle Solaris Studio 12.2. The Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 update includes new features, fixes, and hardware support, and preserves full compatibility with over 11,000 third-party products and customer applications.
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The Oracle technical white paper "Oracle Solaris Studio: Using the Tuned Libraries for Peak Application Performance" discusses the Sun Performance Library (Perflib) component of Oracle Solaris Studio, demonstrating how it can be used in applications to boost performance significantly via its highly optimized mathematical subroutines for SPARC and x86 processor-based systems. Perflib is available for SPARC systems running Oracle Solaris and for x86 or x64 (Intel or AMD) systems running Oracle Solaris or Oracle Linux.
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