Thursday, 2 November 2006

Six Mln Solaris 10 OS Licenses Shipped, says Sun

Sun has delivered over six million licenses for the free and open Solaris 10 Operating System (OS). "The Solaris 10 OS is increasingly seen as the strategic choice for enterprises and application developers," said Tom Goguen, vice president of Solaris Marketing for Sun. "The continuing growth in Solaris 10 OS momentum has driven additional growth in other parts of our business such as the Sun Cluster business continuity software and N1 management tools, both of which have recently experienced over 100% growth in support from third party application developers."

According to Sun, the features of Solaris 10 OS include Dynamic Tracing, Solaris Containers, Predictive Self-Healing and Solaris ZFS. One of the major strategic advantages that Solaris offers Sun customers is that it is both freely available through a no cost licensing policy and completely open-source through the OpenSolaris community. Today there are over 16,400 registered members of OpenSolaris.org, and there have been over 33,800 recorded OpenSolaris downloads. There are 38 registered OpenSolaris user groups, and the OpenSolaris community has made 220 code contributions to date.

You can download Solaris here.