Solaris 10 Operating System and Service Plans

Accelerate your applications. Maximize system efficiency and uptime.
Mitigate risk. Run on x64/x86 or SPARC.

Solaris 10 -- the most advanced UNIX operating system ever -- is here.

Whether you're a business manager, an IT consultant or an application developer, Solaris 10 lets you do things like scale on the fly to accommodate surging workloads, consolidate multiple platforms into one easy-to-maintain system and automatically identify component failures before they happen.

A Solaris Service Plan can help you keep it running smoothly with support from Sun's experienced support engineers and the latest software functionality delivered from upgrades and patches

• Premium Support: Access to updates, upgrades, and patches, plus technical support coverage around the clock, 7 days a week (includes interoperability support)
• Standard Support: Access to updates, upgrades, and patches, plus technical support coverage 12 hours a day, five days a week during local business hours
• Basic Support: Access to updates, upgrades, and patches

Solaris 9 Operating Systems

The Solaris Operating System redefines what an operating system should be. It is the premier OS for reducing cost and complexity throughout the boundaryless data center. Building on 20 years of experience, Sun provides customers with a secure and highly available environment by design. The Solaris OS can scale up and scale out, allowing customers to take full advantage of UltraSPARC or x86 processor-based systems, from smaller departmental servers to massive SunPlex clusters with hundreds of CPUs.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9 introduces new Linux features such as the 2.6 Kernel and provides attractive new pricing -- especially for High Performance Computing clusters * . As one of the top two Linux distributions for servers, SUSE offers Sun customers that require Linux a compelling distribution for Sun's x64 product line based on AMD Opteron processors. Each software license offering is subscription based and includes basic level support for SLES 9. This level of service provides access to SUSE's Linux Portal (web based self help), e-mail support, existing patches, and upgrades/updates. No technical phone support.