Sun Microsystems has announced a set of upgrades and enhancements to its Solaris 8 operating environment (OE) designed to reduce overall development costs and time to market for deploying services on demand.
These include an easy path to developing applications on the iPlanet Application Server while delivering improved Java application performance and increased manageability of storage.
Solaris OE is a core component of the Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) - an open architecture and integratable product portfolio to deliver services on demand.
"With immediate effect, the iPlanet Application Server Enterprise Edition 6.0 is being offered for unlimited development and evaluation at no additional cost on the Solaris OE, SPARC Platform Edition," says Tertius Bezuidenhout, national SE manager at Sun Microsystems SA.
"By combining the iPlanet Application Server with the Solaris 8 OE, Sun is providing developers with easier access to the highly integrated and interoperable Sun ONE platform, thereby reducing overall development costs and time to market for deploying services on demand," he says.
Complementing the enhancements for services on demand, the Java 2 Platform Standard Edition software development kit is now embedded in the Solaris 8 OE. It's specifically tuned to the latest UltraSPARC III CPU to deliver up to a 300% performance improvement, including twice as much private memory, more efficient application and memory clean up and automatic synchronisation.
"As Sun delivers on the promise of Web services with Sun ONE, we are ensuring that the Solaris 8 OE provides the most comprehensive platform for developing and deploying Web applications," adds Bezuidenhout.
"The application server is rapidly becoming the primary application development interface into the operating environment as Java Standard Edition becomes the preferred development platform for the enterprise. Increasing the level of integration between the iPlanet Application Server and Solaris OE creates more value for our customers."
To further fine-tune manageability, the Solaris 8 OE now enables reduced costs and more flexibility in storage configuration with Disk Soft-Partitions. These allow administrators to more effectively manage large storage devices, define virtually any number of logical drives of any size, and manage large amounts of data storage without the need to purchase additional storage management software.
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