Solaris upgrade from 2.6 to 7.0 to be unveiled:
news.com
Major Solaris revision
this week
By Ben Heskett
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
October 26, 1998, 8:30 a.m. PT
Sun plans to trumpet Solaris 7.0 as an
alternative that provides mainframe-class
reliability and stability. It will also stress
the benefits of centralizing software
functions on a single Solaris-based Sun
system over a more distributed model as
well as advances ease of use, which has
been a criticism of Unix-based software
in the past. The new version, which will
include backwards compatibility for all
current 32-bit applications written for
Solaris, will include also include an
updated Java Development Kit (JDK),
version 1.1.6.
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Sun hopes that the availability of Solaris
7.0. due to ship next month, will prompt
the creation of new types of applications
that take advantage of 64 bits. "When
you throw this kind of capability out
there in volume, you're going to see a lot
of crazy things," said Brian Croll,
director of marketing for Sun's Solaris
products.
Sun also plans to offer three
vertically-oriented add-ons to Solaris as
well: an upgrade to its Easy Access
Server, part of the company's NT
interoperability effort code-named
Cascade, an Enterprise Server, and an
Internet service provider server,
according to sources, each with tailored
features.
The most significant of these additions is
the Easy Access Server, a tool that Sun
hopes will allow it to convince users to
go with its own systems over those
based on software from rival Microsoft,
a company that continues to plow ahead
with work on its NT 5.0 upgrade, a
delayed improvement to current versions
that should see the light of day sometime
next year.
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