Live from CommunityOne, Sun Introduces OpenSolaris –
Free, Open, Easy-to-Integrate With World-Class Support and Unique
Features to Fuel Innovation
Open Source Operating System Provides an Innovative, Easy-to-Use,
Development and Deployment Platform for Web 2.0; Amazon and Reliant
Security First to Market with OpenSolaris Solutions
SAN FRANCISCO (Business Wire EON) May 5, 2008 --
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) and the global OpenSolaris(TM)
community jointly announced immediate availability of the OpenSolaris
Operating System (OS). OpenSolaris, based on Sun's Solaris(TM) kernel
and created through community collaboration, delivers an unrivaled
development and deployment environment offering the right mix of rapid
innovation, platform stability and support to meet business and
development needs. Download the OpenSolaris OS now at http://www.opensolaris.com/.
“OpenSolaris is a massive advancement for OS
development and deployment. It combines the strong foundation of Solaris
technologies and tools with modern desktop features and applications
developed by open source communities such as GNOME, Mozilla and the Free
Software Foundation,” said Stephen Lau,
OpenSolaris Governing Board member. “OpenSolaris
provides an ideal environment for students, developers and early
adopters looking to learn and gain experience with innovative
technologies like ZFS, Zones and DTrace. And yes, it uses bash by
default.”
The OpenSolaris OS was designed as a platform for innovation to enable
developers to quickly develop, test, trouble-shoot and deploy their new
web services, HPC and network applications. LiveCD installation and the
new network-based OpenSolaris Image Packaging System (IPS) simplify and
speed installation and integration with third-party applications.
OpenSolaris IPS increases installation speed and accuracy by providing
better control of applications and dependencies and offers easy-to-use
system management.
“The Network Economy has ushered in new,
dramatically different business models that have changed both the pace
and approach with which individuals, communities and companies compete
and succeed. It is critical for the participants in this new market to
have the right tools and technologies to meet these challenges. From a
software perspective, it's clear that open source is the right approach
and that OpenSolaris provides the platform to participate, innovate and
ultimately succeed,” said Rich Green,
executive vice president, Software, Sun Microsystems. “I’m
tremendously proud of the work the OpenSolaris community has put forth
and believe the new OpenSolaris OS sets the innovation benchmark for
what's possible in an open source world.”
The OpenSolaris OS is the first OS to feature ZFS as its default file
system, protecting work with instant roll-back and continual
check-summing capabilities to allow users to test ideas. Its Dynamic
Tracing (DTrace) feature provides safe, pervasive observability of
production systems to accelerate application development and
optimization of the AMP/MARS stack. Additionally Solaris Containers let
you build virtualization-aware applications that can be deployed on more
than 1,000 systems, from single machines through multi-CPU and
multi-core systems, without worrying whether integrating third-party
software will work.
Amazon, Reliant Security Announce OpenSolaris-based Solutions
Amazon and the OpenSolaris community announced the availability of the
OpenSolaris OS on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Through
the OpenSolaris-Amazon collaboration, customers will have access to
Sun's innovative open source software, MySQL premium technical support,
as well as key features of the OpenSolaris OS, such as ZFS and Dynamic
Tracing (DTrace) running on Amazon's cloud computing platform. Now,
developers, enterprises, startups and students have enhanced options and
support for rapid development and fast Web deployment on a Web-scale
compute infrastructure, with capacity-on-demand.
Reliant Security announced it is leveraging the OpenSolaris OS to
improve its payment card data security for merchants who need to meet
challenging payment card industry data security requirements. “Reliant
made a strategic decision to base its Managed PCI System (MPS) product
on OpenSolaris because other operating systems didn’t
meet our security requirements and system resource constraints. With the
support of the OpenSolaris community, we have been able to meet a very
aggressive production rollout of MPS and are proud to participate in the
launch of the first community distribution of OpenSolaris,”
said Richard Newman, managing partner of Reliant Security.
Join the OpenSolaris Community
As part of today's announcement, the OpenSolaris community is expanding
participation as it further innovates the OpenSolaris OS for future
releases. The group unveiled its new logo and launched a new Web site -- http://www.opensolaris.com
-- where users can download the OpenSolaris OS. The OpenSolaris.com site
is a destination to learn more about getting started with the
OpenSolaris OS, provides a forum to share experiences and enables people
all over the world to collaborate with leading members of the
OpenSolaris community. The OpenSolaris User Group community is an active
and growing collaboration among dozens of OpenSolaris technology
communities and projects being created on OpenSolaris.org. For
information on the Sun Partner Advantage program for ISV’s
visit http://sun.com/partners/opensolaris.
About OpenSolaris
OpenSolaris is an open source project created by Sun Microsystems in
2005 to build a developer community around the Solaris Operating System
(OS) and in May 2008 the community delivered the OpenSolaris Operating
System, a single distribution for desktop, server and HPC deployments.
OpenSolaris, based on the Solaris kernel and created through community
collaboration, delivers an unrivaled development and deployment
environment offering the right mix of rapid innovation, platform
stability and support to meet business and development needs. There are
more than 100,000 community members registered on OpenSolaris.org. The
OpenSolaris project User Group is an active and growing collaboration
with dozens of OpenSolaris technology communities and projects being
created on OpenSolaris.org and OpenSolaris.com.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global
marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the
Computer" (TM) -- Sun drives network participation through shared
innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be
found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com
<http://sun.com/>
Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Java, MySQL, OpenSolaris, Solaris
and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks
of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
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