Sun Free Solaris Program Surpasses 100,000 Shipments in Nine Months
Business Editors/High-Tech Writers
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 5, 1999--
Membership In Solaris Developer Connection Surges, Strong
Demand From Microsoft Windows and Linux Developers
Sun Microsystems announced today that its Free Solaris
Program(SM) has shipped more than 100,000 copies of the Solaris
Operating Environment during the first nine months.
Sun also announced that membership in the Solaris Developer
Connection(SM) program has increased more than 200 percent with
Windows and Linux developers making up the majority of new Free
Solaris licensees. Due to the positive response, Sun will expand the
program to include the Japanese version of Solaris and will extend the
Free Solaris Program indefinitely.
"Developers are adopting Solaris because it allows them to focus
on creating innovative applications without having to compromise
world-class reliability and scalability," said Rich Green, vice
president, Solaris Products Group, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
"And through our involvement with the open source community, we
are making it easier to run Linux applications unmodified on Solaris
and to develop applications that are compatible across both platforms.
Free Solaris is further evidence that Sun's industry-leading software
technologies are enabling developers to '.COM' applications for the
Net economy."
"Sun's Free Solaris program offers developers the opportunity to
work with Solaris with little or no investment or risk," said Dan
Kusnetzky, program director, operating environments and serverware,
International Data Corporation. "They can load up the operating
environment, bring up some of their own software, and see for
themselves how Solaris compares with the operating environments
they're currently using. This gives the developer an opportunity to
determine where Solaris should fit in their development plans."
Developers worldwide have licensed Solaris through Sun's Free
Solaris Program for advanced computing research in areas such as
security, Internet, networking, software management and quality, and
computer architecture. Over 2,000 colleges and universities have
licensed Solaris software and are participating in numerous
collaborative computing initiatives with Sun.
Examples of collaborative efforts include Networks of
Workstations and Clusters at U.C. Berkeley, 3D Graphics and Java3D(tm)
technology at Brown University, and the World Wide Web Consortium at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Availability
Solaris software for either the SPARC(tm) or Intel platform
obtained through the Free Solaris Program can be used for academic and
other non-commercial purposes. Students, educators and non-profit
research organizations can order Solaris software via the Web at
sun.com and developers can order at
sun.com.
The Free Solaris Program currently offers Solaris in six
languages including: English, German, French, Spanish, Swedish and
Italian and Sun will begin offering the Japanese version this fall.
Non-commercial and educational developers pay only the cost of media,
shipping and handling.
Solaris 7 Product Line
The Solaris 7 Operating Environment is reliable, highly scalable,
Year 2000 compliant, and delivers expanded capabilities for
workgroups, data centers, and Internet Service Providers who need
"anytime, anywhere" access to computing resources. The Solaris 7
product line is the best network computing environment to support the
business demands of today and the business innovations for tomorrow.
Sun Developer Connection(SM) Program
The award-winning Sun Developer Connection(SM) program is a
comprehensive program of resources and information tailored to meet
the needs of Sun's developer community. With over 1,000,000 members,
the Sun Developer Connection is the fastest-growing and second-largest
developer community in the industry.
Membership in the Sun Developer Connection program is free and
enables unlimited access to the Java Developer Connection(SM) and
Solaris Developer Connection developer portals. Program, registration
and eligibility information can be found at
sun.com.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, "The Network is
the Computer(tm)," has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc.,
(Nasdaq:SUNW), to its position as a leading provider of hardware,
software and services for establishing enterprise-wide intranets and
expanding the power of the Internet. With more than $11.5 billion in
annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 150 countries and on
the World Wide Web at sun.com.
Note to Editors: Sun, the Sun logo, Sun Microsystems, Solaris,
Java3D, Sun Developer Connection, Solaris Developer Connection, Java
Developer Connection and "The Network Is The Computer" are trademarks
or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc., in the United
States and other countries.
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CONTACT: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Mike Shuster, 650/786-9037
michael.shuster@sun.com
or
GCI Group
Todd Tornga, 415/974-7288
ttornga@gcigroup.com
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