Sun Launches Solaris 10 for AMD's New Dual Core Opteron Platform

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (www.sun.com) announced its award-winning Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) supports servers based on the new industry-standard Dual-Core AMD Opteron[TM] processor, including the recently unveiled Sun Fire[TM] V40z server powered by AMD64 dual-core technology.

Leveraging more than 20 years of Symmetric Multi-processing (SMP) expertise, Sun has been able to tune the Solaris 10 OS and optimize it for the AMD64 platform to deliver near linear scalability.

"Solaris 10 is the operating system that can unleash the power and capability of systems based on AMD's new dual-core Opteron processors," said Tom Goguen, vice president of product marketing, Operating Platforms Group at Sun.

"The arrival of multi-core gives Opteron(TM) processor-based systems a path to ever escalating performance gains," said Gordon Haff, Senior Analyst and IT Advisor, Illuminata, Inc. "Add the innovative new features available in Solaris 10 - such as DTrace and Solaris Containers - and you have a very nicely performing and feature-rich option for enterprise customers."

Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (www.sun.com) to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work.