Google Inc. is experimenting with the open-source version of Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Solaris operating system as apossible prelude to running it alongside Linux in its massive global network of servers, according to sources.

With dozens of data centers housing hundreds of thousands of Intel servers supporting its flagship search engine, a move by Google toward Solaris would be a vote of confidence for Sun’s operating system.

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Google considering a move to OpenSolaris?