Features & Benefits

Features & Benefits
Offering Branded Linux
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    Sun sells and Red Hat supports
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise platform
    Sun sells and supports
  • Ubuntu Linux
    Canonical supplies and supports

Providing Choice Sun is the only vendor that offers Linux, Solaris and Windows for its x64 AMD Opteron-based systems, making it perfect for heterogeneous environments. In addition to Solaris, Linux is also available for UltraSPARC-based systems.

Solaris and Linux Compatibility Coming from the same roots, Solaris and Linux are complementary and a natural fit to work together.

Open Source Involvement Sun has opened more lines of source code than any other company and continues to be widely involved with many open source communities including the OpenSolaris project.

Superior Software Sun's key software offerings are available for Linux:
  • MySQL Database Software
  • Lustre File System
  • VirtualBox Desktop Virtualization Software
  • Solaris Containers for Linux
  • Logical Domains (LDoms)
  • StarOffice/StarSuite Office Suite
  • Sun Ray Server Software
  • Sun Secure Global Desktop Software
  • Sun N1 Software
  • Sun HPC Software, Linux Edition
Certified for Red Hat Enterprise Linux are the Java Enterprise System and the following Sun Java Suites:
  • Application Platform suite
  • Communications suite
  • Identity suite
  • Web Infrastructure suite


Developer Tools Sun's developer tools provide the ideal environment for developing new applications and integrating new capabilities into existing Linux services.

Java Everywhere All Java technology offerings for the server and desktop are tested and available on Linux: J2SE, J2EE, Java Web Services Developer Pack, and the Jini Starter Pack.