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Solaris Enterprise System:
No-Cost Software. No Restrictions. No Limits.
 Sun Microsystems recently announced two landmark moves that will create the software platform of choice for the next generation of the Internet.
First, having seen tremendous momentum with the Solaris Operating System as free and open source software, Sun is making the Sun Java Enterprise System, Sun N1 Management software, and Sun developer tools available at no cost for both development and deployment. Sun is also committed to open source this software.
Second, Sun is integrating all of this software along with the Solaris OS into the Solaris Enterprise System, the only comprehensive and open infrastructure software platform available today.
With this announcement, Sun is creating the no-cost and open alternative to the Windows environment. The Solaris Enterprise System has all of the benefits of an integrated offering while still providing customers the flexibility to address their requirements by deploying the specific components they need into alternative operating systems.
In addition to being combined under a single distribution with the Solaris Enterprise System, the Sun Java Enterprise System and the Sun developer tools can be used at no cost on other existing multi-platform environments including Windows, HP-UX, and Linux.
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"With more than 3.4 million Solaris 10 OS licenses and nearly 1 million Java Enterprise System subscribers, customers and developers around the world have asked us to take the next logical step -- combining the world's fastest growing open source operating system with the world's most complete and ready to deploy infrastructure software platform," said Jonathan Schwartz, president and COO of Sun. "One hundred percent of our customers are deploying Web infrastructures and asking for relief from onerous licenses and system integration activity. With our announced intent to open source the entirety of our software offerings, every single developer across the world now has access to the most sophisticated platform available for Web 1.0, 2.0, and beyond."
What's Included in Solaris Enterprise System?
Included at no cost in the new Solaris Enterprise System are:
- The award-winning and open source Solaris 10 OS, with the recently announced PostgreSQL database
- The entire Sun Java Enterprise System infrastructure software platform, including the Sun Java Identity Management Suite, Sun Java Integration Suite, Sun Java Communications Suite, Sun Java Application Platform Suite, Sun Java Availability Suite, and Sun Java Web Infrastructure Suite
- The N1 Management Software including the Sun N1 System Manager, the Sun N1 Service Provisioning System, the Sun N1 Grid Engine
- All tools for C, C++, and Java technology development, including Sun Studio 11, Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8, and Sun Java Studio Creator IDE
- Sun Ray ultra-thin client software
- Sun Secure Global Desktop Software
Solaris 10 OS: The Choice for Education
"Sun's Solaris 10 Operating System, UltraSPARC technology, and Sun's commitment to education all are helping the University of Delaware meet our school's mission of being a technologically advanced institution."
Daniel Grim
Executive Director of IT
University of Delaware
Click here for more on University of Delaware's use of Solaris 10 OS
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In less than one year, the Solaris 10 OS has set more than 46 performance world records and has a broad range of ISV support with over 1500 committed applications. In addition, the Solaris 10 OS currently offers one of the broadest ranges of platform choice in the industry with over 534 supported systems based on SPARC, AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon processor-based systems from vendors as diverse as Dell, Fujitsu, IBM, HP and Sun.
"One of our main concerns is security," says James Dobson, system architect at Dartmouth College. "We work with a lot of student volunteers for research work, necessitating a high level of security and information protection." The Solaris 10 OS offers new increased identity security features for authentication, secure data flows, and stronger log-in controls, which help Dartmouth ensure that only authorized users may research or personal data. "Hundreds of people try to hack into our IT system. We have found the Solaris 10 OS to be highly secure, right out of the box," says Dobson. "By easily changing one setting in the Solaris 10 OS, access to all services can be denied. Not one Solaris 10 OS system has been compromised."
Click here to read more about Dartmouth's use of Solaris 10 OS.
Explore, Develop, and Deploy
Sun is offering a risk-free opportunity to explore, develop, and deploy on Sun's pre-tested and pre-integrated software platform. This is a complete platform that incorporates Sun's existing and recently acquired technology, including its market-leading identity management products, service-oriented architecture-based integration and composite application products from Sun's recent acquisition of SeeBeyond, and remote secure display capabilities from Sun's acquisition of Tarantella.
Sun is also rolling out a vast number of new, complementary services that span from early developer training and education to sophisticated remote and managed services to automate processes that are currently manually accomplished. Sun's new Customer Network Services can provide administrators and developers with automated support for operations management, including patches, upgrades, updates and warranty, without the high costs associated with professional services.
Sun has committed to open sourcing its entire software portfolio using industry-standard open source licensing models to allow customers easy and broad access to all of its source code. Many of the components of Sun's integrated platform are already available as open source, including the Solaris OS, the Sun Java Application Server, the NetBeans software tools, and several key underlying services like single sign-on capabilities and the ability to connect multiple, independent applications in a standard way. This is a trend in which Sun continues to be a pioneer.
For more information on the Solaris Enterprise System, please go to http://www.sun.com/solaris
Click here to have your local Sun representative contact you, or email education_news@sun.com
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