Sun Microsystems

14 June 2005 - First Sun delivered the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS), the most advanced operating system on the planet. Then Sun eliminated the cost barrier by offering a free right-to-use license, driving adoption of more 1.6 million licenses of the operating system.

Today Sun is releasing the Solaris OS source code as open source, the OpenSolaris project. The OpenSolaris source code is available for both the SPARC platform and x86/x64 platforms.

The OpenSolaris project will enable innovations. Other goals of the OpenSolaris project are to:

• Distribute the OpenSolaris source code more widely
• Stimulate innovation
• Create new business opportunities for Solaris OS users and Sun partners

Sun's Ongoing Commitment

Sun has a strong heritage of supporting open standards and open source. With the OpenSolaris project, Sun strengthens its commitment to open source software--opening up millions of lines of source code and providing a platform for developers to collaborate and share ideas.

The OpenSolaris source code includes the core operating system, networking, system libraries, and commands--and all the key innovations delivered in the Solaris 10 OS, including:

• Solaris Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) for observability
• Solaris Containers for utilization
• Predictive Self Healing for availability

Sun plans to open source other components of the Solaris OS--such as the installation tools--and will continue to work to open up code that remains encumbered by third parties. At the same time, Sun maintains its commitment to the Solaris 10 Operating System and continues to use the same proven life cycle development process and quality testing.

Join the OpenSolaris Community

Community involvement and input is crucial to success of the OpenSolaris project. Visit OpenSolaris.org to learn more. OpenSolaris.org is a one-stop resource for collaboration, source code, downloads, developer tools, details about the OpenSolaris Pilot Community, and other information.

Blogs are key vehicles for participation in the open source community. Check out blogs.sun.com, and read the stories of people at Sun who have invested time and energy into the OpenSolaris project.