Just the Facts: Solaris

What the Industry is Saying...

• D.H. Brown Associates: Rated the Solaris 8 Operating Environment as the #1 Unix operating environment
• "2001 Unix Function Review": Positioned the Solaris 8 Operating Environment as capturing the overall lead of the five leading UNIX-based operating systems and their effectiveness in the commercial server arena
  • The Solaris 8 Operating Environment occupied the top spot in reliability, availability and serviceability, and directory and security services
  • The overall top ranking highlights the Solaris 8 Operating Environment's ability to deliver the most complete, highly refined platform needed to satisfy the convergent requirements of enterprises adapting to the Internet age while adopting the disciplines of the data center

Customer Choice At a Premium

• Both small and large enterprises are guaranteed a broad array of leading edge application choices in such categories as ERP, supply chain, CRM, development tools, engineering and systems software/middleware
• The rate of adoption exhibited by ISVs is the most rapid application adoption in the history of the Solaris Operating Environment, strengthening the software's position as the leading operating environment for customers that want highly reliable, flexible, scalable enterprise and Internet applications
• The early availability of these applications on the Solaris 8 platform will help customers transition to the Sun Fire servers seamlessly and without delay
• Sun developer programs such as the Application Guarantee and Solaris Certified programs encourage a diverse variety of applications available for the Solaris 8 Operating Environment

Guaranteed Compatibility

• For customers running previous versions of the Solaris Operating Environment, Solaris 8 provides the critical features needed to provide continuous application availability with guaranteed compatibility for existing applications
• Enhancements to the Solaris 8 Operating Environment make it the one of the most trustworthy universal platforms that meets the needs of companies ranging from small startups to large Fortune 1000 enterprises
• As part of the Solaris Application Guarantee program, Sun will guarantee, at no cost, that existing applications written to the Solaris[TM] Application Binary Interface (ABI) will run without modification on the Solaris 8 Operating Environment

Performance Enhancements

• Moving to the Solaris 8 Operating Environment can improve performance in many different systems and applications including but not limited to:
• Oracle on File Systems: Up to 30 percent faster
• Oracle OLAP Applications: Up to 40 percent faster
• Web Servers: Up to 6 times faster (with Network Cache Accelerator)
• Java Applications: Up to 60 –1400 percent faster
• HPC Applications: Up to 400 percent faster
• File System Setup: Up to 60 times faster
• JDBC Applications: Up to 20 Times faster
• Large Directory Support: Up to 70 times faster

Clustering Technology Advantage

• Sun Cluster 3.0 is the first standard system to provide a global file service, global network service and global device support to provide enhanced manageability in addition to the availability improvements traditionally provided by clustering
• Sun Cluster 3.0 is the only clustering solution that supports failover in vertically scaled environments and scalable service recovery for horizontally scaled environments

Availability and Pricing

Helping drive the abundance of Solaris 8 applications, Solaris software and co-packaged code are free and can be downloaded from www.sun.com/solaris/

For more information: russ.castronovo@eng.sun.com (408) 863.3306