The first thing we would see is the applications popping up on things like Solaris and Linux, which would bring them more strongly into play and potentially clear the way for other manufacturers to build Linux processors, ... But they still wouldn't have the benefit of all the legacy software, so I don't see that this is suddenly going to cause the whole Windows thing to fall over flat on its face.
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The migration to Solaris 10, the most advanced operating system on the planet, is no more complicated than that of the transition HP customers are facing. Solaris 10 has great momentum in the marketplace, including four million registered licenses, a growing community, and broad support for existing applications and systems that can help these customers get the most out of their existing investment.
Sun delivers enterprise-class reliability and performance on an industry-standard x64 platform by offering greater choice and flexibility, especially in the areas of capacity and scalability, which are so vital for our business. Sun continues to provide innovative products and solutions for competitive, mission-critical environments by providing reliable technology for high-volume transaction processing. In an electronic trading environment where every second counts, leveraging technology for competitive advantage is a necessity - not a luxury - for our customers. From our first SPARC-based systems to our recent migration toward Sun Fire x64 servers powered with the AMD Opteron(TM) processor running the Solaris 10 OS, we depend on the reliability and scalability of Sun's systems to meet our requirements for growth and rapid application development.
Proprietary technology relegates you either to a niche or to the ditch. We're growing our market opportunity by steadfastly open sourcing the entirety of our software portfolio -- from the Solaris OS to Java developer tools -- and now we're taking the next step by open sourcing the world's most innovative microprocessor under the GPL. Giving our customers more choice and driving community innovation expands our economic opportunity and is forcing our competitors to sit up and take notice -- we are back on offense.
Sun has seen overwhelming demand from customers scrambling to move away from proprietary operating systems, such as IBM AIX and HP-UX, to the most advanced operating system on the planet, Solaris 10. Partnering with some of the world's largest integrators to deliver this program will enable more customers to take advantage of the performance and cost savings available from adopting the most advanced OS on the planet.
This collaboration is yet another illustration of Sun's steadfast commitment to the EDA and desktop markets. We are very pleased that Cadence has chosen to support the Solaris 10 OS. As a result of dedicated investments in engineering and testing focused on product interoperability, performance optimization and timely delivery, Cadence customers will be able to easily run Solaris 10, the most advanced operating system on the planet. The key features of the Solaris 10 OS, including Dynamic Tracing and Solaris TM Containers, running on SPARC and x64 processor-based Sun Fire servers, will help our customers get better service levels and application performance, as well as protect their software investment.
Solaris has done very well as far as it being a leading Unix operating system for Sun, but how much attention has Solaris attracted outside of Sun ... You could go through the other key software products and say the same thing.
We've really got availability nailed (with Solaris 8) and have completely removed scalability issues. IPv6 can bring China online because they're running out of IP (Internet Protocol) addresses.
We don't own 100 per cent of the IP in Solaris. This is a different platform. We own 100 per cent of the IP that goes into it. We can faithfully deliver it into the free marketplace under a license that promotes freedom and choice.
The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.
With the announcement today, Sun is making an early move to capture the growing integration market with a complete and affordable Java ES stack to address both security and integration, two of the leading concerns for IT managers today, ... Adding the premier suite for integration and composite application development to the Java ES and then combining with Solaris 10 further establishes Sun as a mainstream, end-to-end provider of software for the development and deployment of enterprise applications. And we're just warming up.
The Philadelphia Stock Exchange is close to that -- its entire mission-critical trading system is based on either Sparc or x86-based Sun servers, all of which run Solaris. The exchange in July went live with a new options-trading platform running on x86-based Sun servers, and CIO Bill Morgan plans to evaluate the Galaxy systems as well as new Sparc systems next year. I'm in a business where we handle 120,000 messages a second now, and it's going to be over 200,000 next year, ... Whenever I hear a vendor is striving to upgrade capacity, that's music to my ears.
In e-commerce, application hosting and Internet applications, we needed an enterprise-class storage offering that was scalable across a number of operating system platforms, including Linux, Solaris and Windows NT,
The suggestion is that open source would be a good thing for Solaris. However, there are trade-offs to the open-source model in terms of intellectual property ... and the stability, predictability, and support needed in a production environment.
We are extremely impressed with the functionality and stability of the Sun Ultra 40 Workstation. Running both the Solaris 10 OS and Linux on the Sun Ultra 40 Workstation has vastly improved our performance and analysis times, which enables us to do more in less time and has resulted in more robust designs with shorter design cycles. I can see how the features and benefits of the new Sun workstations will be invaluable to any company involved with MCAD or visualization.
With Symantec's support of the Solaris 10 OS on Sun Fire x64 servers, together we are bringing cost savings, seamless migration and flexibility and industry-leading functionality to a broader range of customers.