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Why Solaris 10?

Solaris 10 Versus
Red Hat Enterprise
Linux:
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14 Points of Interest
Companies are under increasing pressure to “do more with less”,
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prompting IT professionals to continually look for a low-cost, open

“Solaris is a better Linux than

platform with broad hardware and application support. The following list
Linux.”

compares Solaris 10™ and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® on the 14 Points of
— Mark Andreessen,
Interest—designed to help technical professionals make the operating
system choice appropriate for their environments, but with full knowledge
Founder, Ning

of the tradeoffs. Of course Solaris, Linux, Windows and VMware all run on
Sun hardware, allowing users to chose the best operating system for their
needs while still using Sun hardware.

1. Solaris 10 is Lower Cost than Linux

Whether you look at OS support fees or subscription costs, Linux does not
save you money—quite the contrary.
› Marc Andrreessen, former co-founder of Netscape and founder of Ning,
documented a 36-month OS support fee of $3,840 (Enterprise Linux)
versus $360 (Solaris 10)
› Support plans up to 56% cheaper than equivalent Red Hat offerings

Figure courtesy of Sun Microsystems.

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2. Solaris Runs on Scalable Risc and Commodity X86 Hardware Solairs Reviews
Solaris 10 is fully supported on more than 800 SPARC-based and x64/x86
systems from top manufacturers including from Sun, Dell, HP, and IBM.
“With the release of the

› Runs on 800-plus x64/x86 platforms

Solaris 10 Operating System,
Sun has once again delivered
state-of-the-art technology
that is both invaluable and
compelling to SAS and our
customers.”
— Paul Kent, Vice
President, Research &
Development, SAS

Figure courtesy of Sun Microsystems.

3. Sun X4600—“Best” X86 4- and 8- Socket Systems

Solaris 10 is available on servers top-rated by the distinguished InfoWorld
technology awards.
› InfoWorld 2007 Technology of the Year Awards—Best high-performance
server: x4600
› x4600 is InfoWorld #2 best server, x4200 is #3

4. Sun/Solaris has Won 145 World Records

To date, Solaris 10 has set 145 performance and price/performance
records.
› More about Solaris world records

5. Solaris 10 Unmatched Feature – Compatibility Guarantee

Solaris 10 includes the industry’s only application compatibility
guarantee—both binary and source—to protect IT investments.
› Solaris 2.6 through Solaris 10 binary guarantee – no recompile needed,
move the binaries and they will run
› SPARC & X86 source code guarantee – compile C or C++ on one
platform and it will compile and run on the other
› More about the Solaris application guarantee program
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6. 5,190 Applications Supported Solairs Reviews

Solaris 10 has over 5,000 unique applications shipping on Solaris 10—
SPARC, x64, or both (no double counting across architectures).
“… about 75 percent of
correspondents think Sun’s
Solaris 10 is better on x86
severs than Linux.”
— Merrill Lynch survey of 75
U.S. and 25 European CIOs

Figure courtesy of Sun Microsystems.

7. Solaris Has Longer Product Lifecycles

The chart below shows the varying support lifetimes, starting at the year of
release and progressing through the subsequent years. A longer product
lifecycle helps ensure stability in the datacenter and longer service life
from your systems.

Figure courtesy of Sun Microsystems.

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8. 6.8+ Million Downloads of Solaris 10+ From Sun’s Web Site Solairs Reviews
More than 6 million licenses have been distributed for Solaris 10 and the
community is continuing to grow. Learn why customers and partners
"Due to its market share

choose Solaris 10 to help make their businesses more successful.

lead in the Unix market, the

› Solaris 10 success stories

size and vibrancy of its
independent software vendor

9. Solaris 10 Unmatched Feature—DTrace (ISV) software portfolio and

DTrace is unique trouble-shooting software that provides significantly

its technical quality, we rate

more observability than the industry’s best debuggers, and also run on
production systems with no impact before or after testing.
Solaris a ‘strong positive’.”
— Gartner Report,Vendor

› Breakthrough observability, production use, zero performance impact

before or after use, problems solved in minutes, instrument every line in
Rating: Sun Microsystems

every application, no code change required

› Use to debug non-Solaris 10 application problems (run the application
on Solaris 10, find the problem, then port the fix to the non-Solaris 10
system)
› Winner of the Wall Street Journal 2006 Innovation award

10. Solaris 10 Unmatched Feature—ZFS

ZFS is a next-generation file system with unmatched scalability, reliability,
features, and management.
› Breakthrough file system, infinite scale, self-healing, spindle-speed
performance, end-to-end data integrity, easier administration
› Built-in snapshots, clones, replication, compression

11. Solaris 10 Unmatched Feature—Security

Solaris 10 includes some of the world’s most advanced security features,
that allow users to safely deliver new solutions, consolidate with security,
and protect mission-critical data.
› Solaris 10 includes containers, least-privilege model, ipfilters-based
firewall, certificates everywhere, crypto infrastructure, secure by default
networking, trusted extensions.

12. Other Important Solaris 10 Features

Solaris 10 includes more than 600 features that make it the most efficient,
secure, and reliable operating system ever built.
› Service Management Facility (SMF), predictive self-healing, virtualization
› Open source, FREE
› More about Solaris robust feature set
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13. Gartner Just Rated Sun “Positive” Solairs Reviews

In April of 2007, Gartner cited Sun Microsystems’ improved revenue,
substantial progress towards sustainable profitability, and return to Unix
"A subsidiary of Siemens

server market leadership as warranting an increased vendor rating of

Power Generation saved 30

“positive.”
percent of its capital budget

› Solaris received a “Strong Positive” rating

for CPUs by purchasing Sun

› Technology/methodology received a “Strong Positive” rating

equipment, and the Solaris 10
OS ran the company's

14. Corporate Technologies is a Leading Sun Reseller software 11 percent faster—-

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technologies with unique values we bring to our clients:

› Corporate Technologies is one of 15 "Executive-Level" VARs—the
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› Our extensive R&D lab provides customers access to state-of-the-art
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› Our "virtual warehouse" allows us to pre-allocate equipment based on
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› Corporate Technologies is staffed with industry-recognized
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textbook) and speaking engagements at leading institutions.

Summary: Make the Move to Solaris 10

› It’s Easy Solaris 10 delivers exactly the same functionality whether it's
running on a SPARC system or x64/x86 servers from Dell, HP, IBM, Sun
and many others. Sun has engineered a comprehensive suite of tools and
services to help you safely move to Solaris 10 while staying focused on
your core business.
› It’s Ready for the Long Haul When you install a system, you want to
get years of service life out of it. That's why the Solaris lifecycle model is
designed to let the systems you deploy remain on the same release for
years to come.
› It’s Powerful How powerful? Solaris 10 has set 145 performance
records since its release.
› It’s Cost Effective Zero-cost licensing and a range of flexible support
offerings at prices lower than Red Hat's.
› It’s got the Features you Need Just when it seems like other operating
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systems are taking an innovation break, here come some of the coolest
features seen yet: award-winning DTrace, Solaris Containers, ZFS,
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Predictive Self-Healing, Security, Optimized Networking, and more.

"Ning planned to use
Linux/Intel hardware for its
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demonstrated that Sun Fire™

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much over a 36-month

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period."

plus industry-leading server, storage, networking, and security

—Ning

technologies.

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