IBM has just published information about Solaris 10, letting the world know who is really the big boss here (of course, not the big blue), IBM web site said that Solaris is the most advanced operating system on the planet, check the full list of Ten Things to know below:
From IBM web site,
"Ten Things to know about Solaris 10:
- Great Product, $500M and 3000 engineering years of R&D investment have resulted in the most advanced operating system on the planet.
- Great Price, Use Solaris 10 commercially, in production, for FREE.
- Open Source, Sun released the Solaris OS - millions of lines of code - to the open source community via opensolaris.org.
- Application Compatibility Guarantee, Guaranteed binary compatibility from release to release of Solaris and source compatibility between SPARC and x64/x86 processors.
- One Solaris, Same code base on x64, x86 and SPARC-based systems.
- Most secure OS on the planet, 80% of Trusted Solaris features now in Solaris 10, including Process Rights Management and Secure Execution.
- DTrace, Designed to be used on live production systems; Offers application performance improvements of up to 50X in matter of hours.
- Solaris Containers, Complete application fault and security isolation with workload management and virtualization.
- Predictive Self-Healing, Predicts system errors and takes failing components offline before they cause problems.
- Runs open source applications, 188 of the leading open source packages are included, pre-compiled and ready to go. "
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