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Solaris 10 operating system preview
Solaris 10 Operating System, the upcoming release of the industry's leading UNIX platform, integrates revolutionary technologies and delivers extreme levels of performance, availability and security. Over 80,000 Sun customers are already experiencing the benefits that true operating system innovation can deliver, regardless of their platforms, applications or the environment they are running in.
Break away from the rest of the pack - see what it's like to be a generation ahead using the Solaris 10 OS and experience:
- Application performance improvements up to 30x with DTrace
- Up to 80% reduction in system administration tasks with Dynamic File System
- Up to 80% system utilization with N1 Grid Containers
- System performance improvements up to 2x with Chip Multithreading (CMT).
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