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Solaris

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Solaris is a Unix operating system originally developed by Sun Microsystems, first released in 1992 as the successor to Sun's earlier SunOS. Acquired by Oracle along with the rest of Sun in 2010, it became known for scalability on SPARC hardware and for originating features later widely copied elsewhere, including the DTrace dynamic tracing framework and the ZFS filesystem. Solaris remains a proprietary Oracle product for SPARC and x86-64 workstations and servers. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Year
1992 1
Significance
A proprietary Unix system for SPARC and x86-64 hardware known for scalability and for originating features such as DTrace and ZFS. 1
Classification
License
Proprietary (Closed Source) 1
FAQs

Is Solaris the same thing as SunOS?

SunOS is the operating system core; Solaris is the product name built on it.

Closely related. Solaris 1.x was a retroactive name for SunOS 4.1.x, and the Solaris 2.x line that most people mean by the name is built on SunOS 5.x, an SVR4-derived Unix. So SunOS is the core operating system and Solaris is the broader product name that also bundles other software such as networking and a desktop environment.
Connections

Associated With

Bill Joy, Pioneers

In Field

Operating Systems, Fields

Licensed Under

Proprietary Software, Concepts
In the Other Atlases

Developed By

Oracle Corporation

Also in Business Atlas: the developer of this subject.

Sun Microsystems

Also in Business Atlas: the developer of this subject.

Sources
1. Wikipedia: Solaris
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    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 Originally developed by Sun Microsystems as Solaris, it superseded the company's earlier SunOS in 1993 and became known for its scalability, especially on SPARC systems, and for originating many innovative features such as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.
  • Lead section
    Oracle Solaris is a proprietary Unix operating system offered by Oracle for SPARC and x86-64 based workstations and servers.
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