Author: Liu Yanqing, 2004 at 09:48 on October 30 Source: CCID SAN FRANCISCO Sun officials on Friday confirmed that a press conference will be held at the Sun Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, November 15 It officially launched a new Solaris operating system.
Solaris10 will have many new features, including a new error discovery system, a file system with high scalable capability called ZFS, called DTRACE diagnostic tools. In addition, the performance of Solaris10 will also have great improvements, such as new TCP / IP stacks and improved multi-threaded capabilities.
One of the most interesting features of Solaris10 is that it will be the first Solaris operating system that supports the AMDopteron chip. Currently, the X86 version of the Solaris operating system only supports 32-bit computing modes.
According to Sun, another new feature in Solaris 10 is N1GridContainers that allows customers to break down Solaris to up to 4000 independent computing environments called "container". Applications can run in these "containers" to improve system performance and security.
The release positive of Solaris10 is challenge Linux on the X86 architecture platform. Sun officials have admitted that they mistakenly judge the potential of the X86 architecture platform. Last year, it has taken a variety of measures to strengthen Solaris as the status of the X86 platform operating system, for example, so that Solaris can run in competitors including Dell, IBM. The launched x86 system.
Sun also plans to release an open source Solaris operating system at the end of this year, which will create opportunities to sell Solaris on new hardware platforms.
Charles, chief analyst of Pund-IT Information, said Sun must take a balanced strategy that makes Solaris a "best choice" on the Ultrasparc and X86 two hardware platforms. (N105)
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