Sun Solaris 10

[Gordon Darling]

http://www.vnunet.com/news/1159380

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/business/technology/10185353.htm?1c

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/features/s10_countup.html

"Taking a leaf from Linux's book, Sun Microsystems will later today make
its newly developed Solaris 10 operating system available for free,
charging customers only for support.

The latest version of Solaris is scheduled to be unveiled at an event in
San José, California as part of the firm's quarterly roundup of product
announcements.

Solaris 10 marks a major effort by Sun to regain some of the ground it
lost over the past years to Linux, according to Mark McLain, vice
president for software marketing at Sun.

"The movement away from Unix and Solaris has been dramatic. We come out
now and say: 'We have an alternative for [Linux].'"

Some of the operating system's key features were designed specifically to
appeal to users switching from Linux to Solaris.

Among them is an application codenamed Project Janus that allows users to
create a virtual container inside Solaris in which they can run Linux
applications. This enables them to use Linux applications that are not
supported for Solaris...................... more"

Regards
Gordon

 

[SchroedingerzKat]

"Taking a leaf from Linux's book, Sun Microsystems will later today make

its newly developed Solaris 10 operating system available for free,
charging customers only for support.

Yes, this is very cool. i'm tempted to set up a Solaris 10 box. i haven't
seen the ISOs available yet, just the press releases.

Sol 9 was free for academics and developers. They also have 60 day
right-to-use on betas, so you can tinker with it for free.

This new price (free) will make Solaris one of the cheapest unices to try.
Tru64 is relatively cheap at $100 hobbyist price.

michael