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25.January.2006 -- The Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) just got better. The newest release of the software includes a host of new features, such as:

• GRUB-based (GRand Unified Bootloader) boot loader for simplification of installation and boot of the Solaris 10 OS on x64/x86 platforms
• Sun Update Connection, which provides immediate access to the latest patches and fixes, or software updates
• Solaris Containers improvements to enable customers to install and update patches dynamically within a Container
• Improved network performance
• Improved memory management
• Updated peripheral support including iSCSI support
• Integrated bug fixes

Simplified Installation and Updating

The Solaris 10 Operating System 1/06 integrates two applications that simplify installing and updating. The popular GRUB boot loader, traditionally used on Linux, simplifies and accelerates the boot process for alternate operating systems from a Solaris system or USB device.

Sun Connection software enables immediate access to Sun Connection Services, so you can get the latest software updates (including security patches and fixes), as they become available.

Market Momentum

Nearly four million people have chosen the Solaris 10 OS since it became available just over a year ago. The list of supporting independent software vendors grows longer each day.

Customers are seeing remarkable performance improvements after deploying the Solaris 10 OS in their environments, due to networking enhancements, a radically improved kernel, special optimizations for memory allocation, and chip multithreading (CMT). The Solaris 10 software's unique Solaris Dynamic Tracing feature (DTrace) yields additional application performance gains by tuning applications.

"We favor Solaris because we've seen it's faster than Linux for the same applications with no changes, especially large memory footprint applications, including simulations and large database cache applications," says Neal Tisdale, vice president of Software Development at NewEnergy Associates, a Siemens Company.

"We also like the features of DTrace and the Sun compilers. These are pulling my development teams over into Solaris."

“We favor Solaris because we've seen it's faster than Linux for the same applications with no changes, especially large memory footprint applications.” Neal Tisdale Vice President of Software Development NewEnergy Associates, a Siemens Company

A Thriving Ecosystem

Sun continues to support a community of participation in the software space. In addition to making the Sun Java Enterprise System and all of our developer tools available free of charge, we have also committed to opening the source all of our infrastructure software. All of this software is available--at no cost--through the Solaris Enterprise System.

The Solaris Enterprise System includes popular developer tools such as the NetBeans software, the Sun Studio 11 software, and the Sun Java Studio Enterprise software, giving developers powerful choices for creating applications optimized for the Solaris 10 OS. Sun also makes it easier for customers to deploy open source software by supporting popular open source applications such as the Postgres database.

Access the Solaris source code, including the recently released features, the Solaris ZFS (zettabyte file system) and the Solaris Containers for Linux Applications, through OpenSolaris.org.

Get the Solaris OS Today

Download the Solaris 10 OS 1/06 today, free of charge, or order a media kit containing the Solaris Enterprise System software. Because at Sun, we're all about delivering value.