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2. OpenSolaris
May 2008
Vassilis Boulogiorgos
Software Practice Leader
Greece, Balkans & Adriatic Sea
Sun Microsystems Inc.

3. Perspectives
“Every software asset we produce is open
source. If it isn't today, it will be pretty
damn quickly.”
Jonathan Schwartz
CEO, Sun Microsystems
January 2007

4. Sun's Contribution to Linux
Estimated
Rank Company $ value
1 Sun Microsystems Inc 404 m Estimated Substitution
Cost of Sun’s contribution
2 IBM Corp 116 m to Debian GNU/Linux
3 Red Hat Corp 76 m
includes code in
4 Silicon Graphics Corp 61 m GNOME
Linux kernel
5 SAP AG 60 m Mozilla
OpenOffice.org
6 MySQL AB 45 m X.org
and other projects
7 Netscape Communications Corp 41 m
Source: UNU-MERIT report for the
8 Ximian Inc 39 m European Commission
“Economic impact of FLOSS on innovation
9 RealNetworks Inc 35 m and competitiveness of the EU ICT sector”
January 2007
10 AT&T 34 m

5. 2008: Sun acquires MySQL
Driving market-tipping change in
the $15B database marketplace
Positioning Sun as the leading platform for
the Web economy
Expanding Sun’s reach into MySQL’s
extraordinary LAMP user base
Expanding MySQL’s capacity to deliver
global service and support
Affirming Sun’s position as the largest
commercial open source contributor
World’s Most Popular Open Source Database

6. Sun's Open Stack
Flexible and Heterogeneous with Zero Barrier to Exit
Database Platform
Application Java Enterprise System
Infrastructure Composite Application Platform
Virtualization Sun xVM
Operating System
Partners
Architecture

7. What is OpenSolaris?
ZFS
DTrace
CIFS
Clearview
IPS
FMA
Community Participation + Solaris Innovation

8. OpenSolaris OS Release
Redistributable LiveCD image
Graphical installer
GNOME/compiz desktop
GNU tools; AMP/MARS deployment software
Network package repository
Leverages unique Solaris capabilities
Easy to Get, Install, Use, Maintain
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9. OpenSolaris 2008.05
First release of the OpenSolaris OS
First OS with ZFS as default file system
Enhanced DTrace with D-Light
Fast in kernel CIFS server
New OpenSolaris package repositories
Integrated & optimized AMP/MARS stack
Fully supported for production deployments

10. Innovate in Real Time with DTrace
“ [expletive deleted] It’s like they
saw inside my head and gave
me
the One True Tool.
”
View everything—from high
level scripts to low level
hardware
Solve the gnarliest problems on
the fly
Safe enough to use in
production, any time
Serious fun for developers

11. Best
Solaris ZFS File
System
End-to End Immense
Data Integrity Data Capacity
64-bit checksums World’s first
Copy-on-write 128-bit file system
transactions
Easier Huge
Administration Performance Gains
Pooled storage model–
no volume manager Especially architected
Move volumes between for speed
systems

12. ZFS + DTrace
Demo

13. OpenSolaris. Start It Up!
Get It Experience It Install It
Available Live CD Easy
everywhere Graphical
See the best
Smaller faster in OpenSolaris, Supported on
download risk free ~1000 systems
Runs in popular
virtualization
environments

14. OpenSolaris Unlocks Your Potential
opensolaris.com/get
OpenSolaris: Get it. Use it. Learn it. Be Brilliant.

15. Thank you!
Vassilis Boulogiorgos
vassilis.boulogiorgos@sun.com