IBM, Solaris and Sun

Published Thu, 2007-08-16 20:45 Software

IBM will distribute the Solaris Operating System (OS), from Sun and Solaris Subscriptions for select x86-based IBM System x servers and BladeCenter servers to clients through IBM's routes to market.

The agreement is an extension of IBM's existing support for the Solaris OS on select IBM BladeCenter servers. IBM and Sun's support of interoperability via open standards also means that customers will be able to extend their infrastructure by connecting new platforms easily, while preserving their initial investments.

IBM is the volume leader in the high-performance segment of the Intel-based server market. IBM's X3 Architecture, the third generation of the Enterprise X-Architecture, has positioned IBM as the fastest growing vendor in high-end x86 servers in the first quarter of 2007.1

The Solaris OS is supported on more than 820 x86 platforms and runs more than 3,000 unique x86 applications including IBM Websphere, Lotus, DB2, Rational and Tivoli.

As part of the expanded support, Sun and IBM will invest in testing and system qualification so joint customers will realize Solaris' leading performance and reliability on BladeCenter and System x servers. IBM servers that will support the Solaris OS include: IBM BladeCenter HS21 and LS41 servers; and IBM System x3650, System x3755, and System x3850 servers.

Solaris 10 Operating System In less than one year, the Solaris 10 OS has set more than 46 performance world records and has a broad range of ISV support with over 1500 committed applications. In addition, the Solaris 10 OS currently offers one of the broadest ranges of platform choice in the industry with over 534 supported systems based on SPARC(R), AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon processor based systems from vendors as diverse as Dell, Fujitsu, IBM and HP and Sun.

Open Source License for Solaris Operating System Buildable source code for Solaris will be available at this site in the second quarter of 2005. "Sun's heritage has always been deeply rooted in open source and open standards-based software. OpenSolaris(tm) represents a significant milestone in the history of Sun, the Solaris community and larger open source community," said John Loiacono, executive vice president of Software at Sun. "We strongly believe the OpenSolaris community will help foster the innovation and collaboration needed to open up new opportunities for developers, customers and partners." "Sun has its roots in the BSD UNIX(r) distribution, which I released under the pioneering open source license.

Two Million Solaris 10 Licenses Distributed More than two million registered licenses for the Solaris 10 Operating System since the software became available on Jan. 31. These numbers coupled with a record number of visitors to the Sun website during the last six months highlight the incredible demand for the freely available OS. This uptake has also driven further interest in the project GlassFish[sm] open source effort - whereby developers can participate in the open source community developing the latest version of Sun Java System Application Server PE 9.0.

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