What does it take to be a part of the Solaris Ready Program? To start, partner commitment. The product developer company should be willing to develop and support their products on Sun platforms with the Solaris OS.

The criteria for being considered such a partner include:

Channel distribution, service and support in geographies worldwide
Ability to provide vendor updates
Agreement to support newer versions of the Solaris OS in a timely manner (where applicable)

Program eligibility criteria are required to maintain the integrity and value of selected products.

Once these criteria are met, a prospective participant must individually submit products that meet the product eligibility requirements of the Solaris Ready Program. A product must fall into one of the product categories below in order to be considered for nomination under the Solaris Ready Program. The categories below are links to the product critera information.

Solaris Ready Program Product Types

PCI Add-in Cards and Devices (I/O Controllers and Adapters)
- Network Interface Cards (NIC)
- Interfaces to other buses (SCSI, SBus, VME, USB, 1394, etc)
- Fibre Channel Cards
- Graphics and Multimedia
- Encryption & Accelerators

Systems & Platforms

External Peripheral Devices
- Printers and Plotters
- Scanners
- Storage Subsystems ( NAS,iSCSI, ATAPI,CDRW,etc...)
- Sun Cluster Storage
- Removable Storage devices
- Expansion Boxes
- Monitors
- Input devices (USB & IEEE 1394)
- Switches & Hubs and Console Servers
- Smart cards
- Networking
- Power Supplies

Specific Software Types

Solaris Device Drivers