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In the News Announcing Solaris 10 10/08 9/15/2008 The latest Solaris 10 release is adding new hardware support and significant enhancements to the innovative Solaris ZFS file system. Sun Expands Sun Blade Family With New Four Socket Blade Server For HPC And Enterprise Applications 6/18/2008 Sun Blade X6450 server module delivers 50% more memory and up to 71% greater density than competitive blades. Gartner Newsletter: Solaris Driving Business Results (pdf) 2/22/2008 Learn more about trends in strategic operating systems and how Sun is committed to building a strategic operating system that combines innovative enterprise-ready capabilities with broad channels of distribution, wide-ranging partner support and an open source business model. Featuring Gartner research, this newsletter will provide a better understanding of the business value that organizations can gain through the adoption of the Solaris OS, which delivers unmatched power and performance. 2008 Technology of the Year Awards 01/2008 Read the Article on InfoWorld about the Most Innovative Server OS: Solaris. Sun Solaris Express Developer 9/07 Michael Larabel, Phoronix, 9/25/2007 The quarterly release of Solaris Express Developer Edition is now available for download. Among the new features in Solaris Express Developer Edition 9/07 is a new Solaris installer, a GUI utility for DTrace with Sun Studio 12, and many updated packages. Longtime rivals IBM, Sun to collaborate Associated Press, 8/16/2007 Two longtime rivals in computing, IBM and Sun Microsystems plan to cooperate on some server technologies, a move that could put pressure on their joint competitor Hewlett-Packard.				IBM to Sell Sun's Solaris System Wall Street Journal, 8/16/2007 International Business Machines Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. said that IBM has signed an agreement to become the first major hardware vendor to become a reseller of Sun's Solaris operating system. IBM broadens its support for Sun's Solaris software: Says it will begin offering OS on more of its x86-based systems IDG News Service, 8/16/2007 IBM is expanding the number of x86-based servers and blade systems on which it offers Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Solaris operating system. Solaris success paves way for next-gen OS push The Register, 4/2/2007 Describes Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz' view on the key OS players in the market and introduces potential future releases of Solaris. Schwartz says Solaris is key to Sun's growth InfoWorld, 3/6/2007 CEO credits Sun's good economic performance to widespread adoption of Solaris 10. ZFS: Should you? ServerWatch, 3/1/2007 ServerWatch reviews ZFS on Solaris 10. Some discussion points include overall impressions, performance, flexibility and considerations for migration. New Ways to Save on Virtualization InfoWorld, 2/8/2007 This article references Solaris 10 Containers technology among cost effective alternatives to VMware.

Press Releases Sun Microsystems Hosts Second Annual CommunityOne Open Source Developer Conference for World's Technology Communities May 5, 2008 Solaris 8 and 9 Containers part of Sun Microsystems And Fujitsu Expand SPARC Enterprise Server Line With New UltraSPARC T2 Plus Processor-Based Systems April 9, 2008 Sun and Dell Announce Agreement at Oracle OpenWorld Event November 14, 2007 Sun Solaris Express Developer Edition Gets Usability Makeover September 24, 2007 Sun's Solaris 10 Advances Virtualization and Network Performance, Incorporates Open Source PostgreSQL Database September 11, 2007 IBM Expands Support for the Solaris OS on x86 Systems August 16, 2007 See All Press Release				OpenSolaris Distribution and Optimized AMP Stack for Solaris 10 February 13, 2007 Inaugural Solaris University Challenge Winners Announced February 6, 2007 Datacenter Deployment of Sun Fire 'CoolThreads' Servers Powered by Solaris 10 January 18, 2007 Sun Enhances Solaris 10 for x86 Server Market January 16, 2007 Solaris 10 Sets New Standards in Enterprise Security, Virtualization and Performance January 16, 2007 Solaris Cluster Delivers New Solutions for Solaris 10 January 9, 2007

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