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Sun Microsystems, from its inception in 1982 to its acquisition by Oracle Corporation in 2010, became known for being "something of a farm system for Silicon Valley." [1] It had a number of employees credited with notable achievements before, during or after their tenure there.
Oracle Solaris is a proprietary Unix operating system offered by Oracle for SPARC and x86-64 based workstations and servers.Originally developed by Sun Microsystems as Solaris, it superseded the company's earlier SunOS in 1993 and became known for its scalability, especially on SPARC systems, and for originating many innovative features such as DTrace, ZFS and Time Slider.
The following updates were released by Oracle under the new license agreement; the final release is Solaris 10 1/13. [ 88 ] Previously, Sun offered a separate variant of Solaris called Trusted Solaris , which included augmented security features such as multilevel security and a least privilege access model.
Solaris Nevada b148 RAID-Z/mirror hybrid allocator 30 Solaris Nevada b149 ZFS encryption 31 Solaris Nevada b150 Improved 'zfs list' performance 32 Solaris Nevada b151 One MB block support 33 Solaris Nevada b163 Improved share support 34 Solaris 11.1 (0.5.11-0.175.1.0.0.24.2) Sharing with inheritance 35 Solaris 11.2 (0.5.11-0.175.2.0.0.42.0)
The former next-generation Solaris OS version under development by Sun to eventually succeed Solaris 10 was codenamed 'Nevada', and was derived from what was the OpenSolaris codebase and this new code was then pulled into new OpenSolaris 'Nevada' snapshot builds. "While under Sun Microsystems' control, there were bi-weekly snapshots of Solaris ...
The acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation was completed on January 27, 2010. [1] After the acquisition was completed, Oracle, only a software vendor prior to the merger, owned Sun's hardware product lines, such as SPARC Enterprise, as well as Sun's software product lines, including the Java programming language.
Oracle Solaris Cluster (sometimes Sun Cluster or SunCluster) is a high-availability cluster software product for Solaris, originally created by Sun Microsystems, ...
ZFS (previously Zettabyte File System) is a file system with volume management capabilities. It began as part of the Sun Microsystems Solaris operating system in 2001. Large parts of Solaris, including ZFS, were published under an open source license as OpenSolaris for around 5 years from 2005 before being placed under a closed source license when Oracle Corporation acquired Sun in 2009–2010.