Sun offers an alternative to Windows with the Solaris Enterprise System, a unified platform
of Solaris 10, Java Enterprise System, developer tools and N1
management software. Pay only for the support you need.
Advanced Solaris OS Features
A $500-million investment produced the most advanced operating system ever built, with more than 600 new features
in Solaris 10, such as DTrace, Predictive Self-Healing, Solaris Containers, and ZFS.
Agile Business Integration
Easily develop, deploy, and manage enterprise integration projects with the secure, scalable SOA-based Java Composite Application Platform Suite.
Identity Management
The industry's most complete and integrated suite of tools to securely manage user identities across a variety of
computing infrastructures and environments.
Integrated Open Source Applications
188 of the leading open source packages are included, pre-compiled and ready to go. Use them out of the box or
interchange them with parts of the Sun infrastructure software stack to best meet your needs.
Run Enterprise Databases
From Oracle to MySQL, including the open source PostgreSQL for Solaris, the Solaris Enterprise System is the database platform of choice for enterprise customers.
Ensure Regulatory Compliance
With the Solaris OS and the Sun Java System Identity Manager, the Solaris Enterprise System helps customers
with regulatory compliance and top security challenges.
Serve the Web Out of the Box
Solaris 10 is optimized for running Web services and includes Apache and Tomcat software to let you deploy services right away.
(1) SPEC OMPM2001 results: Sun Fire V40z server, 12,434 (four cores, four chips, four threads).
Sun Fire V40z server, 11,223 (four cores, four chips, four threads). IBM eServer OpenPower 710 server, 10,750
(four cores, two chips, eight threads). IBM eServer pSeries 655 server, 8356 (four cores, four chips, four threads).
Hewlett-Packard AlphaServer GS1280 7/1300, 8225 (four cores, four chips, four threads). HP rx7620 server, 6886
(four cores, four chips, four threads). SPEC & SPEComp are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance
Evaluation Corporation. Results on www.spec.org as of April 7, 2005.
“We favor Solaris because we've seen it's faster than Linux for the same applications with no changes, especially large memory footprint applications.”
— Neal Tisdale Vice President of Software Development NewEnergy Associates, a Siemens Company
