Sun Microsystems: OpenSolaris is Industry’s Most Comprehensive Multi-Vendor Storage Operating System

Santa Clara, Calif. - Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) is donating storage technologies for storage developers within the OpenSolaris community. This will enable community members to combine OpenSolaris with hardware from any source to create compelling storage solutions at a fraction of the price of traditional proprietary storage vendors. This combination of open source and commodity hardware heralds a new stage in the storage industry.

Sun is taking the lead in creating a community-driven software development platform that speeds time-to-market for storage application development and which better addresses customers’ ever-evolving data management and archiving needs. Sun is donating the source code to the Storage community at http://opensolaris.org/os/community/storage/ which will feature email forums, design documents and open source code.

“Just as free and open source code has changed the way server and desktop operating systems are developed, evaluated and deployed, today marks a big step in repeating this model for storage software technology,” said Rich Green, executive vice president, Software, Sun Microsystems. “Sun is taking the lead in changing the market by enabling the creation of compelling low-cost storage solutions via the free and open availability of open source software, including Solaris, on commodity hardware from a wide-range of vendors including HP, Dell, IBM, and Sun.”