The Solaris Ready Program may help to accelerate the sales cycle for products bearing the Solaris Ready logo through customer confidence and loyalty. The logo serves as a prominent display of third-party product operability with the applicable UltraSPARC and Sun x64 Servers (AMD Opteron processor-based) families of workstations and servers. Solaris Ready Program participants are leaders in delivering high standards of service and industry recognition. The list of Solaris Ready Program participants continues to expand.

Having the Solaris Ready logo for marketing activities is a competitive differentiator for quality distinction. Through the Partner Advantage Program, including possible cooperative marketing with Sun, Program participants can reinforce the message that their products have passed the Solaris Ready tests for interoperability. Moreover, since Solaris Ready logo licensees have access to Sun's sales channels, they can proactively promote their solutions directly to the channels, end users, and integrators. The potential impact to a participant's bottom line may be enormous, and is only limited by the extent to which a participant is willing to leverage the many built-in benefits of the Solaris Ready Program.

The benefits to Solaris Ready logo licensees include:

License to use the Solaris Ready logo on all product packaging, collateral materials, advertising, exhibits, and websites, as applicable to the licensee's product type. consistent with the Logo License Agreement.
Invitations to technical briefings, seminars, and trade shows
Visibility as a Solaris Ready Program participant on Sun's web site and other Sun officially published materials.
Co-marketing packages available through the Partner Advantage Program
Distinction as Solaris Ready Program participant in Partner Advantage Products Catalog
Distinction as Solaris Ready Program participant in Hardware Compatability Listing (HCL)

If you would like additional information or have questions on how the Solaris Ready Program can help your product achieve these strategically beneficial advantages, take the first step and request nomination of your products into the Solaris Ready Program.

Independent Hardware Vendors (IHVs) or vendors specializing in specific hardware device and Original equipment manufacturer s can fill out the on-line Request for Nomination form or contact the Solaris Ready Program administrator.

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) or vendors specializing in software applications can fill out the on-line Request for Nomination form or contact the Solaris Ready Program administrator.