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Solaris is the right choice for open source.
Unwanted upgrades, software incompatibilities and frequent code fixes are not only time-consuming and costly, they disrupt critical business operations and stall IT innovation. Yet many systems administrators will face just such disruptions, now that Red Hat is limiting support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3.
A better option: Transition to the Solaris.
Not only is Solaris 10 free and built on open source, it runs across more hardware systems and supports more applications than RHEL4, and comes with the industry's only guarantee of source code and binary compatibility between releases.
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Benefits
The Right Price
Cost was one of the reasons for adopting Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the first place.
Solaris 10, runs on commodity hardware, supports more than 770 x86 and SPARC systems, and comes with zero-cost licensing for both development and deployment.
The Right Way Forward
Sun introduced the Solaris Application Guarantee back in 2000. Six years later, the Solaris OS is still the only operating system that guarantees binary compatibility between releases.
A Solaris OS release stays on level 1 support for a minimum of seven years; Red Hat Linux releases drop to maintenance support after three years.
The Best in Performance
Since its release, the Solaris 10 OS has set over 100 performance records? Running on entry-level x86 servers and enterprise SPARC systems, and powering Java and C database and Web applications.
DTrace For Maximized Availability
Our award-winning Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) technology in Solaris 10 lets you safely analyze all the applications running on your system and troubleshoot performance problems in real-time, without taking systems offline or out of production. DTrace reveals insights into performance gains and increases throughput to speed services to more users.
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Sun Studio For Speeding Development
Take advantage of one of the industry's best compilers and development environments, for free. Sun Studio 11 is a no-cost-license suite of tools and compilers optimized for the Solaris OS on both SPARC and x64/x86 platforms.
The Right Choice for Virtualization
Solaris 10 works with VMware to virtualize machine hardware so you can run multiple operating systems on a single platform. Solaris 10 also features innovative Virtualization technologies such as Dynamic System Domains and Solaris Containers for isolating applications, increasing application flexibility and maximizing server utilisation.
Predictive Self-Healing For a More Stable Environment
Predictive Self-Healing brings enterprise-class stability to industry standard systems. It has been shown to reduce annual system downtime by as much as 54 percent. With Predictive Self-Healing in Solaris 10, low-level diagnostics correct hardware problems before they become your problem. It also makes the operating system responsible for software service availability - a feature Red Hat says is "not matched, but may not be an issue" in RHEL 4.
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