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More than 11 millions licenses have been distributed for Solaris 10 and the community is continuing to grow. Learn why customers and partners choose Solaris 10 to help make their businesses more successful.

Banco del Caribe
DBV-Winterthur Versicherungen
eBay, Inc.
Engineering DataXpress
Global System Services Corporation
HPCVL
KASIKORNBANK
Mansion.com

NewEnergy Associates
Ning
Object Computing, Inc.
TransactTools
UCLA
UGS Corp.
Université catholique de Louvain
University of Delaware
Wolfram Research, Inc.

Banco del Caribe

Sun Helps Drive Business Expansion at Financial Services Firm with Server Consolidation and Scalable Architecture
Sun helps drive business expansion at Banco del Caribe with server consolidation and scalable architecture providing increased performance and availability.

DBV-Winterthur Versicherungen

Major German Insurance Group Consolidates Server Infrastructure and Reduces Costs with Sun Technology
DBV-Winterthur migrated its mainframe applications to a scalable, open systems infrastructure based Sun Fire servers running the Solaris 10 Operating System with improved availability, utilization and reduced TCO.

eBay, Inc.

eBay Drives Explosive Growth using Sun Technology and Sun Services
eBay relies on a spectrum of Sun servers, storage and software solutions, which reduce the company's total cost of ownership, optimize application performance and gains a 20% improvement in application performance with Solaris 10.

Engineering DataXpress

Engineering DataXpress, Inc.—Solaris 10 in 10 Days
Intrigued by the Solaris 10 OS, the company qualified its Unix products to Sun systems with the SPARC and AMD Opteron processors in just ten days.

Global System Services Corporation

Sun Fire X4200 Server with Solaris 10 and VMWare Replaces 10 Intel Machines, Pays for Itself in Under Three Months
GSS purchased a Sun Fire X4200 server with Solaris 10 and installed VMWare. The combination replaced 10 Intel servers. Now GSS is experiencing higher productivity, increased server utilization and a rapid return on investment.

High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory (HPCVL)

Canadian Computing Consortium Boosts Performance Fivefold With Sun Technology
Sun provides a comprehensive infrastructure composed of compute clusters, storage and remote access capabilities via a Web portal to support approximately 700 university-based and outside researchers.

KASIKORNBANK

KASIKORNBANK—Secure on Solaris 10 and Sun Fire V20z Servers
To address changing business requirements, KASIKORNBANK consolidated is disparate security systems on Sun Fire V20z servers powered by AMD Opteron processors, the Solaris 10 Operating System, and the DSSS Authentication Server.

Mansion.com

Increasing Performance and Availability with Limited Power and Space
Mansion.com chose Sun's Solaris 10 Operating System running on Sun Fire T2000 servers increasing performance threefold while reducing power consumption and rack space by the same ratio, compared to competitive servers.

NewEnergy Associates

Virtualizing Data Center and Delivering 18:1 Server Consolidation
NewEnergy Associates saved 30 percent of its capital budget for CPUs by buying Sun equipment and straight out of the box, Solaris ran NewEnergy's software 11 percent faster than on Linux.

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Ning

"Solaris is a better Linux than Linux" —Marc Andreessen
Ning is a consumer Internet company which specializes in highly customizable social networking environments. Marc Andreessen, founder of Ning, joined Jonathan Schwartz at the Sun Analyst Summit 2006 to discuss some of his key findings on why Ning chose Sun to run his business.

Object Computing, Inc.

Porting Middleware Solutions Rapidly
The multiple platform capabilities of the Solaris 10 OS help OCI provide big system features and reduce costs and risk for its customers.

TransactTools

Enabling Faster High-Volume Electronic Trading
In the financial services industry where timing is everything, a Sun Fire V20z system with AMD Opteron processors running the Solaris 10 OS drives TransactTools' TCM5 transaction connectivity server 50 to 200 percent faster than similar systems running Windows or Red Hat Linux.

UCLA

Brain Research Lab Powered by Solaris 10 and Sun Servers
This deployment includes 306 Sun Fire V20z servers running Solaris 10. The organization worked closely with a Sun Solution Center to evaluate operating systems. While they were originally considering Linux, their benchmark tests showed that Solaris 10 would provide the best price/performance for the UCLA Laboratory of Neuro Imaging.

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UGS Corp.

Sun Helps UGS Corp. Realize Massive Cost Savings by Reducing Server Sprawl
Solaris Containers—Sun's virtualization and software partitioning technology—provide UGS with exceptional flexibility that has increased server utilization by 25 percent. UGS expects more than $300,000 in cost savings.

Université catholique de Louvain

Sun Brings 21st Century Technology to 600-Year-Old University
UCL replaced an aging infrastructure with a combination of Sun Fire server and Solaris 10 bringing significant cost savings and reduction in complexity.

University of Delaware

Improving System Diagnosis and Increasing Security
Major university benefits from new system diagnosis tools and increased security of Sun's Solaris 10 OS.

Wolfram Research, Inc.

Increasing Performance for Complex Mathematical Modeling
Wolfram Research brought its award-winning Mathematica system to the Solaris 10 OS running on Sun x64 systems featuring AMD Opteron processors. Finished in roughly half the expected time, Mathematica 5.2 running on the Solaris 10 OS and Sun x64 platforms provides the perfect blend of performance, scalability, and memory capacity for power-hungry users.