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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 White Papers
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Oracle Solaris Operating System: Optimized for Sun x86 Systems in the Enterprise
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER:
This document is intended as a technical guide for developers and system administrators that want to understand the precise details of how Oracle® Solaris and Oracle’s Sun x86 systems using Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 and 7500 series can improve your enterprise application solution environment.
Posted: 15 Mar 2011 | Published: 15 Mar 2011
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Consolidating Applications with Oracle Solaris Containers
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER:
Oracle Solaris Containers implement OS virtualization using containers that are designed to provide a complete, isolated, secure runtime environment for applications—and in situations where resources can be managed with sub-CPU granularity.
Posted: 14 Mar 2011 | Published: 14 Mar 2011
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Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000, Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000, Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000, and Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 Server Architecture
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER:
Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000, Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000, Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000, and Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 servers are highly reliable, easy- to-manage, vertically scalable systems with many of the benefits of traditional mainframes—without the associated cost, complexity, or vendor exclusivity.
Posted: 14 Mar 2011 | Published: 14 Mar 2011
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Oracle Solaris Operating System— Optimized for the Intel Xeon Processor 5600 and 7500 series
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER:
This document is intended as a technical guide for developers and system administrators that want to understand the precise details of how Oracle Solaris and the Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 and 7500 series can improve your application solution environment.
Posted: 11 Mar 2011 | Published: 11 Mar 2011
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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, … Solaris definition sponsored by SearchEnterpriseLinux.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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