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ORACLE DATA SHEET
ORACLE SOLARIS 10
KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS
Innovation matters—increase business
efficiency and lower costs with the industry’s
#1 UNIX
BENEFITS
• Virtualization. Optimize resource
utilization to deliver predictable service
levels with Oracle Solaris Containers.
• Networking. Attain near-wire-speed
throughput with minimal CPU overhead
using the Oracle Solaris networking stack.
• Security. Implement a secure foundation
for deploying services with Oracle Solaris
leading-edge security features.
• Availability. Minimize unplanned
downtime with the predictive self healing
feature.
Oracle Solaris 10 is the strategic platform for today’s demanding
enterprise, delivering proven results on everything from missioncritical enterprise databases to high-performance Web farms, and from
the latest generation of symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) SPARC
systems to industry-standard x86 systems. For customers facing
challenging business and technical requirements—such as lowering
costs, simplifying system administration, and maintaining high service
levels—Oracle Solaris 10 is the ideal cross-platform choice
Meeting the IT Challenge
Enterprises are under tremendous pressure to show stronger returns on their
investment in IT, rolling out new business services faster, increasing processing
and storage capacity while reducing space and power usage, and complying with
new regulations. With Oracle Solaris innovative built-in features deliver
breakthrough virtualization and utilization, high availability, advanced security, and
industry-leading performance—all at a great price.
Unparalleled Innovation
The demonstrated innovation of Oracle Solaris 10 pays off by delivering benefits
that can reduce administrative overhead, hardware costs, and power and cooling
while preserving investments in software and training. In short, innovation matters
because it saves you money. Oracle Solaris is fully tested and tightly integrated
with the Oracle database, middleware and applications and is a key component in
the Oracle “stack”.
Application Compatibility
Oracle Solaris 10 guarantees binary compatibility from release to release and its
architecture neutral programming interfaces ensure source code compatibility
between SPARC and x86 processors. To assist in rehosting legacy applications, use
Oracle Solaris 8 and Oracle Solaris 9 Containers on Oracle Solaris 10. This
provides a “physical to virtual” way to quickly and easily run your legacy
application environments on the latest SPARC systems.
Single Source Code Base
With a single source code base, Oracle Solaris 10 runs on x86 and SPARC
processor–based systems—delivering the same features on both platforms. This
means that you can develop and optimize applications on Oracle Solaris 10 for use
across the entire Oracle hardware product set and on a range of non-Oracle systems.