Sun Ships Solaris 9 For IntelSun Ships Solaris 9 For Intel

Updated version of operating system for Intel servers is designed to compete with Windows.

information Staff, Contributor

February 6, 2003

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Sun Microsystems on Thursday disclosed the availability of its Solaris 9 operating system for Intel servers. The company introduced the Solaris 9 x86 Platform Edition, designed to compete with Windows servers.

Source code is available.

Previous versions of Solaris x86 have more than 1.1 million registered licenses, Sun said.

The new version includes SunScreen 3.2 software firewall, Sun One Directory Server, IPQoS services for bandwidth management, and management tools.

The software is free for noncommercial usage; pricing starts at $99 for commercial use.

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