The open source Solaris 10 operating system (OS) from Sun Microsystems will be Oracle's preferred development and deployment platform for most x64 architectures, including systems based on the rival AMD Opteron, Intel Xeon and Sun UltraSPARC processors.
Oracle plans to release and ship 64-bit versions of all Oracle products on the Solaris OS prior to, or at the same time as, product releases on other operating systems.
Oracle says one of the main aims of the move is to give development teams access to Solaris 10 features like Dynamic Tracing, Solaris Containers and TCP/IP performance enhancements.
It was impossible to ignore the market opportunity created by the growth of Solaris 10 along with Sun's industry-standard x64 and UltraSPARC-based systems, says Oracle CEO Larry Ellison in a statement.
The continued 20-year collaboration will help assure customers of virtually seamless integration between Sun and Oracle technologies, says Sun CEO Scott McNealy in a statement.
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