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Sun Releases OpenSolaris, Available Through Amazon's Cloud

Monday, May 5, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Sun Microsystems has released the open-source version of its Solaris operating system, called OpenSolaris. At the same time, Amazon announced that OpenSolaris will be available on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) online computing service.

OpenSolaris marries Solaris technology with modern open-source applications from groups such as Gnome and Mozilla. "Solaris has a very strong following and a very strong user base," said Jim McHugh, vice president of Solaris marketing at Sun. "Now we're taking all the benefits Solaris has had and making it more familiar and accessible to what people who have used other open-source operating systems know."

OpenSolaris is available for free on Amazon's EC2 (aside from the basic EC2 charge) on a beta, invitation-only basis. Users will get free e-mail technical support from Sun. Vendors offering OpenSolaris software on EC2 include application server vendor GigaSpaces, collaboration software developer ThoughtWorks, and backup provider Zmanda.

Source(s): LinuxInsider, Computerworld




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