Solaris comes for free

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4 May 2005

The Solaris 10 Operating System from Sun Microsystems is now available for customers to download and deploy, free of charge from Sun’s website.

Solaris 10 is an OS that is available on more than 340 different hardware platforms from companies as diverse as Dell, Fujitsu, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, IBM and HP.

Sun is also offering a subscription-based Solaris Service Plans to provide customers and partners with support for Solaris 10. Customers can choose Basic, Standard or Premium Solaris Service Plans, each with scalable and predictable pricing, based on the number of processor sockets.

Solaris developers can also take full advantage of the Sun Studio 10 development environment, now available for download from the Sun website. Sun Studio 10 makes it simple to get better performance when developing C, C++ and FORTRAN applications for Solaris 10. The product provides a comprehensive environment for developing scalable 32- and 64bit applications on Sun’s newest Ultrasparc, Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processor-based systems. Sun Studio 10 software is fully compatible with previous releases, making it easy for users to upgrade.

*Horizon Open Systems 01-8055600
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