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February 25, 2009 - Sun and HP announced an expanded multi-year partnership agreement that enables HP to distribute and support Sun's Solaris 10 OS. The top five x86/x64 based system vendors now all ship Solaris with their systems. HP is responding to customer demand for expanded OS support on HP ProLiant server and blade platforms. Sun now becomes a strategic HP ProLiant OS distribution partner and Solaris is elevated to the lineup of key operating environments for the ProLiant platform.


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John Fowler

Executive Vice President, Systems

Jim McHugh

Vice President, Datacenter Marketing

Sun Execs Discuss HP and Solaris

Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz and executive vice president John Fowler discuss the expanded relationship with HP and Solaris's place in the spectrum of server operating systems.


Nokia Siemens Networks is encouraged to see this important agreement being made. These types of agreements enable Nokia Siemens Networks to leverage industry hardware and software components from various suppliers into our products and solutions and will continue to enable NSN to focus our R&D and innovation to the benefits of our customers.
— Stephan Scholz, CTO at Nokia Siemens Networks

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