CURRENT TRENDS

An Operating SystemOpenSolaris 2009.06 delivers industry leading features in networking, storage and virtualization, along with significant performance enhancements and developer productivity updates, the best in open source software and a vibrant development community.

OpenSolaris is the one platform you need, to go from the desktop to production; it scales with you from the smallest Intel Atom processors through enterprise systems with hundreds of CPUs. All the software that you need to get up and running fast is available through the Image Packaging System (IPS), including the latest developer tools and a lightning fast optimized production web stack.

OpenSolaris 2009.06 is the latest release of the OpenSolaris Operating System, a powerful and complete operating environment for users, developers and deployers. OpenSolaris prides itself on being a secure, stable, and highly scalable system. The OpenSolaris OS is open source software, and freely re-distributable and provides all the tools users expect from a modern computing environment both installed by default and available on our online network package repositories.

OpenSolaris 2009.06 is also the first official release to come to the SPARC platform. Enjoy OpenSolaris on all Sun4v based platforms (UltraSPARC T1 and T2) and Sun4u based platforms (UltraSPARC II, III and IV) with an OBP level of 4.17 or greater. OpenSolaris for SPARC is only available as an Automated Install based image at this time.



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