Outline of Criteria for entry into Solaris Ready Program for Software ISV products and Devices for all of Sun's platforms

Goals of the Program include qualifying products for the Solaris Ready Program, promoting customer awareness, and enabling identification and selection of high quality add-on products for Sun's platform customers.

A Software element consists of Application Software and related device drivers which implements the services. Sun's Solaris Ready Program shall add the additional criteria to Software products.

Company Criteria:

1. Channel distribution, service and support in geographies worldwide.
2. Ability to provide vendor updates.
3. Agreement to support newer versions of the Solaris OS in a timely manner (where applicable).
4. Acquire Sun platforms for the development and support of the Solaris OS.
5. Three customer references for application running in a production environment for a minimum of 6 months.

Product Criteria:

1. Meet the Solaris Ready Platform Support, Installation Criteria, Diagnostics, Additional Criteria as listed below.
2. Device Driver components shall meet the Device Driver Eligibility requirements.
3. Ensure documentation describes installation.
4. Documentation for updates and patches on company website or CD-ROM.
5. Include sufficient packaging materials and other materials unique to the product.
6. Software installation and system identification of product under test.
7. Shall not threaten the security or the integrity of the Solaris OS.
8. Shall not access memory that is not specifically allocated or associated with the application.
9. Must detect and behave appropriately when server shutdown is initiated.
10. Shall handle and display dates above 2035.
11. The product must allow users to work with files on local and network directory where the user has sufficient rights.
12. Application shall use some mechanism to avoid data corruption caused by concurrent read/write access by users.
13. Application should not interfere with or corrupt other applications on the network.

Product Support:

1. Make pre-sales specification and product information available on line.
2. Provide product warranty and technical support information.
3. Maintain a supported Sun system configuration list for customers, including supported system configurations and known restrictions or conflicts.

Platform Support:

1. Product must be operable on all Sun platforms, or identified in documentation for specific platform issues.
2. The duty cycle shall be applicable for the product type for 24 continuous hours.

Installation Criteria:

1. System V Package Installation Format using pkgadd(1M) and pkgrm(1M) utilities.
2. Boot Verification with Card and Driver.
3. Solaris DDI Compliance of device drivers.
4. Power Management (such as Energy Star) as applicable.
5. Interoperability with other products installed on the Solaris OS.

Diagnostics:

1. Self Diagnostic to isolate failure.
2. User level diagnostic for end user use.

Additional Criteria:

1. Complete the Basic Test section of the Solaris Ready testing of Third Party PCI Cards shall be used.
2. Functional tests of Solaris Ready testing of Third Party PCI Cards, utilizing SunVTS technology or Sun HCTS on latest two major releases of Solaris OS as applicable to the specific product technology under test.
3. The products should function as described in product documentation manuals on UltraSPARC and/or x64 (AMD Opteron processor-based) platforms, where applicable.
4. Vendor is required to inform Sun of any changes/revisions to their hardware, firmware or software at least 1 month in advance of the change. Vendor products that are obsolete or modified within the 6 month period of nomination will need to be re-tested.