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OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows up
Sun will release its May 2008 build of OpenSolaris (2008.05) the Open Source operating system based on the source code of the Solaris 10 enterprise UNIX OS, the first to be designated with “Production” support offerings. While very much community software and not yet at the level of polish for end-user adoption that many of the latest Linux distributions are now enjoying — shows promise and enormous potential as an enterprise-class UNIX desktop and server with an Ubuntu-like flavor.
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Sun Launches Solaris On Demand Program
Sun has announced Solaris On Demand, its software as a service (SaaS) program for the independent software vendor (ISV) community. This program provides ISVs with the technology, hosted infrastructure and services needed to offer their software as a service. It is especially targeted at ISVs with a traditional, on-premise license model who want to offer their existing application on-demand without having to use a multitenancy application architecture. To provide the hosting services, Sun is working with several partners such as NaviSite for U.S.-based and European Union companies, AT&T’s USi for U.S.-based companies and NTT Europe Online for European Union companies. With the Solaris On Demand program, ISVs can create offerings that meet the application availability, security, scalability and cost requirements of their own customers. To join the Solaris On Demand program, visit http://www.sun.com/ondemand.
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Sun Solaris to adopt NSA security model
The National Security Agency and Sun Microsystems have begun work on a patch that will outfit Sun’s Solaris operating system with the National Security Agency’s mandatory access control (MAC) mechanism, the two organizations announced last week.
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Researchers turn Sun Solaris utility into fuzzing tool
Security researchers have developed a way to turn a utility for Sun Microsystems’ Solaris operating system into a rootkit-like, reverse engineering tool that can be deployed to quickly locate application vulnerabilities and create exploits.
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Web pioneer quits OpenSolaris project
A high-profile figure in Sun Microsystems’ OpenSolaris community has quit, accusing Sun of retaining too much control over the open-source counterpart to its Solaris operating system.
Roy Fielding, co-founder of the Apache HTTP Server Project and a key contributor to the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), announced his resignation last week in a message on the community’s discussion forum.
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Editors Still Needed and Wanted!
You may have noticed Solaris Central has gone through some design changes. Some even day to day. The current look and feel of Solaris Central will remain until a redesign is due. That said, Solaris Central is looking for Authors and Editors for this blog. We’re looking for help keeping it updated with the latest Solaris News plus whatever you can offer to make it a valuable resource to the users of the Solaris Operating System.
If interested, please contact us and we’ll get you started! 
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Aonix’s ObjectAda Brings Eclipse to Sun Solaris Platforms
Eclipse enables best-selling Ada technology to better serve large project groups. ObjectAda V8.3 for Sun’s popular Solaris platforms running on SPARC and Intel processors provides a complete enterprise-level environment for the development of native Unix applications using the Ada programming language.
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Solaris and Dell
Dell and Sun Microsystems have signed an OEM agreement for Dell to make the Solaris Operating System (OS) and Solaris support services available directly to customers for select Dell PowerEdge servers.
Dell to carry Solaris 10 on PowerEdge servers
Love Fest at Oracle Confab: Sun and Dell
Solaris and Dell… and Virtualization, Of Course
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Dell to carry Solaris 10 on PowerEdge servers
Sun Microsystems and Dell announced Wednesday a distribution agreement under which Dell will distribute Sun’s Solaris 10 operating system on Dell PowerEdge servers.
Under the multiyear agreement, Dell also will provide Solaris support services to its PowerEdge customers. The agreement brings two rivals together, with Dell gaining a relationship to better serve its customers already running Solaris on their systems and Sun a potentially larger market base for Solaris.
Four years and 1000 promises land Solaris at Dell
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Implementing Sun Solaris on IBM BladeCenter Servers
This IBM Redpaper describes how to install Solaris on supported BladeCenter servers, either natively or with the use of a Solaris Installation Server.
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Sun Confirms Multiple Vulnerabilities Affecting Solaris
A member of Sun’s X Window System engineering team is recommending that users should turn off the X font server if they don’t need it.
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Sun Solaris With Ease?
Sun Microsystems has gone to great lengths in recent years to make its Solaris operating system more open by going open source. But “open” doesn’t always mean “easy.”
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