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ALSO CALLED:
Sun Solaris,
SunOS
DEFINITION: Solaris is the computer operating system that Sun Microsystems provides for its family of Scalable Processor Architecture-based processors as well as for Intel-based processors. Sun has historically dominated the large UNIX workstation market. As the Internet grew in the early 1990s, Sun's SPARC/Solaris systems became the most widely installed servers for Web sites. Sun emphasizes the system's availability
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Solaris Multimedia
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Oracle Solaris 11 - Innovations for Your Data Centre
sponsored by Oracle Corporation UK Ltd
WEBCAST:
In this webcast, you'll learn how Oracle Solaris can help you simplify the deployment of public, private and hybrid clouds, optimise the performance of enterprise applications, and achieve mission-critical availability and reliability.
Posted: 24 Dec 2012 | Premiered: Dec 24, 2012
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HP-UX 11i on Integrity servers: HP value for Solaris users
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Limited
WEBCAST:
Join HP-UX 11i Marketing Manager Suzanne LaForge as she discusses HP-UX 11i on Integrity servers and HP's value for Solaris users.
Posted: 19 May 2010 | Premiered: Jan 1, 2010
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SOLARIS DEFINITION (continued):
(meaning it seldom crashes), its large number of features, and its Internet-oriented design. Sun advertises that its latest version, the Solaris 8 Operating Environment, is "the leading UNIX environment" today.Sun emphasizes these features of Solaris:Its availability. Special features make it easy to add new capability or to fix problems without having to restart the system. Because it has evolved through a number of versions, it is "stable" - that is, like IBM's well-known mainframe operating system, MVS, Solaris has exercised and fixed almost any code path that might break. It can be upgraded,
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