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Help build the performance, stability, and security your users and customers demand.

The robust, secure and open Solaris OS—combined with the record-setting optimizing compilers and tools in Sun Studio 11, freely available on x86, x64, and UltraSPARC architectures, are joined by a vibrant open source community building the next generation operating system.

Think you can do better? Do it. Here's how.

Step 1 Join the OpenSolaris community.
OpenSolaris The OpenSolaris community is a place for collaboration and conversation made up of a wide variety of people around the world. Participants include developers adding functionality to the system or customizing the technology for new applications and platforms; system administrators implementing Solaris technology in data centers; and educators and students researching operating systems in universities.
Step 2 Get Solaris 10 FREE.
Solaris With support for the latest PCs, workstations, and servers on the hardware compatibility list (HCL), Solaris 10 Operating System includes more than 600 cutting-edge features including DTrace, ZFS, Solaris Containers
and Predictive Self-Healing.
Download Solaris Express Developer Edition, Sun's leading edge release built from the OpenSolaris.org source code repository.
Step 3 Get Sun Studio Software FREE.
Sun Studio software—the preferred environment for OpenSolaris development—provides optimizing compilers, a NetBeans-based IDE, visual performance tools, and more to developers create highly tuned applications that leverage the latest hardware, including multi-core systems. Performance and development time are terrible things to waste—accelerate today with Sun Studio.
Step 4 Join a Sun Tech Day event near you.
Advance your development ability with cutting-edge technical education; Sun Tech Days—coming to a city near you—are loaded with practical information, examples of real-world solutions, and hands-on training. Whatever your focus—enterprise, mobility, desktop, tools, web services, SOA, AJAX and more—you'll find sessions to take your skills to the next level.