Solaris Operating System

Overview

The Solaris Operating System—supported on over 1000 x86 and SPARC platforms—delivers the performance, stability and security your users and customers demand. With more applications available than for any other open operating system, one OS can span your entire enterprise: the Web tier, the data warehouse, and the most demanding technical compute applications. Moving to Solaris 10 is easy, whether you're upgrading from an older Solaris release or migrating from another OS.

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Use Solaris 10 for:

Virtualization for Business in Real-Time
Learn how to build out your virtual enterprise with Solaris.

Does your AMP stack up?
Build with a better open source.

PostgreSQL
Get the assurance of an advanced database on Solaris and the economies of open source.

High Availability
Keep your global enterprise running 24x7.

A Secure Web Infrastructure
Secure your web servers with Solaris 10.

Strategic Development Platform
Get the most performance out of your applications.

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World Record Performance

Put Solaris innovation to work on getting the most out of your systems and applications.

World Record Solaris

Solaris 10 has set and re-set dozens of performance and price/performance world records on a wide range of benchmarks, covering a variety of workloads on x86 and SPARC systems of all sizes.

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OEM Spotlight

Solaris: Choice and Flexibility

Get world class performance and support for the Solaris OS - now available on the world's top-selling servers from HP, IBM, Dell, Fujitsu/Siemens, and Egenera.