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Interoperability in a heterogeneous environment is important to IT managers. The Sun Ultra 24 Workstation is a 64-bit workstation that offers the widest available range of operating systems support — more than other workstations offered by Sun's competitors. Sun Ultra 24 Workstation supports multiple 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems, including Linux and Solaris. Sun Ultra 24 Workstation will also be listed in the Windows Catalog as being fully certified for the Windows XP Professional and Windows XP Professional x64. Table 20 shows the operating systems supported on Sun Ultra 24 Workstation.
All Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS's, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server OS's, and Solaris 10 can be ordered from Sun. Support contracts are also available for these operating systems. The Sun Ultra 24 Workstation will also be listed in the Windows Catalog as being fully certified for the Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Professional x64 and Windows Vista. It has earned the "Compatible with Windows" designation as a certified platform to run the Microsoft Windows XP Professional and Windows XP Professional x64 Operating system. Sun Ultra 24 Workstation will be listed on the Microsoft Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) which can be seen by visiting the Microsoft Windows Hardware and Driver Central (WHDC) at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hcl/search.mspx. While qualified to run the Microsoft Windows XP Professional operating systems, these operating systems cannot be procured from Sun. However, Sun does support the Windows XP Professional operating systems. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||