OpenSolaris is becoming more like regular Solaris
Lines are beginning to blur between the open source and commercial versions of the Sun Microsystems Solaris Unix operating system.
The company will unveil the open source OpenSolaris 2009.06 release at the CommunityOne conference in San Francisco Monday, one day prior to the opening of the JavaOne conference. A key improvement in the release is the addition of Sparc processor support.
As part of the announcement Sun, which is in the process of being acquired by Oracle, also will offer a Spectrum support contract for OpenSolaris equal to Solaris 10, said Jim McHugh, vice president of datacenter software marketing at Sun. Previously, there were different levels of support involving factors such as turnaround time for bug fixes.
Solaris has been positioned as Sun's enterprise-level OS while OpenSolaris has been geared to developers and has served as a proving ground for the latest OS features.
"We have two different delivery vehicles [for Solaris]," McHugh said. But OpenSolaris is becoming enterprise-ready, he added.
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