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Oracle Solaris is a proprietary Unix operating system offered by Oracle for SPARC and x86-64 based workstations and servers.Originally developed by Sun Microsystems as Solaris, it superseded the company's earlier SunOS in 1993 and became known for its scalability, especially on SPARC systems, and for originating many innovative features such as DTrace, ZFS and Time Slider.
The following updates were released by Oracle under the new license agreement; the final release is Solaris 10 1/13. [88] Previously, Sun offered a separate variant of Solaris called Trusted Solaris, which included augmented security features such as multilevel security and a least privilege access model. Solaris 10 included many of the same ...
Oracle Developer Studio, formerly named Oracle Solaris Studio, Sun Studio, Sun WorkShop, Forte Developer, and SunPro Compilers, is the Oracle Corporation's flagship software development product for the Solaris and Linux operating systems.
Solaris Containers (including Solaris Zones) is an implementation of operating system-level virtualization technology for x86 and SPARC systems, first released publicly in February 2004 in build 51 beta of Solaris 10, and subsequently in the first full release of Solaris 10, 2005.
The acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation was completed on January 27, 2010. [1] After the acquisition was completed, Oracle, only a software vendor prior to the merger, owned Sun's hardware product lines, such as SPARC Enterprise, as well as Sun's software product lines, including the Java programming language.
Solaris 11.4, Oracle ZFS Storage Simulator 8.7 [6] RAID-Z improvements and cloud device support. [7] 44 Solaris 11.4 [7] Device removal 45 Solaris 11.4 SRU 11 [8] Lazy deadlists 46 Solaris 11.4 SRU 12 [9] Compact file metadata for encryption 47 Solaris 11.4 SRU 21 [10] Property Support for ZVOLs 48 Solaris 11.4 SRU 45 File retention support [11] 49
Java Desktop System OpenSolaris 2009.6 Desktop (discontinued). Java Desktop System, briefly known as OpenSolaris Desktop, is a legacy [1] desktop environment developed first by Sun Microsystems and then by Oracle Corporation after the 2010 Oracle acquisition of Sun. Java Desktop System is available for Solaris and was once available for Linux.
SPARC T-series servers can be partitioned using Oracle's Logical Domains technology. Additional virtualization is provided by Oracle Solaris Zones (aka Solaris Containers) to create isolated virtual servers within a single operating system instance. Logical Domains and Solaris Zones can be used together to increase server utilization.