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Solaris Express, Developer Edition 1/08 or SXDE 1/08 is out!  The Nevada build corresponding to the release is 79b.

 What is new? 

Project WebStack

Project Webstack is the most commonly used components for webservices development namely Apache,  MySQL, PHPoptimized for OpenSolaris.  You can call it SAMP!  Now bringing up this stack should take just  a few minutes. And yes, it does include the PostgreSQL db also! 

NetBeans 6.0

It includes support Ruby Projects.  Also the JDBC driver for PostgreSQL is included!

Other highlights include:

 - Interoperability with Microsoft's CIFS protocol.  
 - Support for virtual machines via Sun xVM hypervisor, based on technology developed by the Xen community.

 - Sun HPC ClusterTools based on the Open MPI effort.

More reasons to adapt OpenSolaris!
 

The first release of Solaris Cluster Express is now available for download from the following link: http://www.sun.com/download/products.xml?id=46a94a22. You can run it on build 67 of Nevada. Remember, in this release, the agents are open sourced! The next project planned for open source is cluster's DR solution - Geographic Edition!

Just to re-iterate, the software can run on *32 bit platforms as well* !!  That means you can form a cluster on your laptop itself!  Yes.  Download the software on your laptop with Solaris OS * (S10u3) and make a single node cluster. Create multiple zones within the node and failover applications between zones!  All you need to do is check if the SUNWscka package is installed.  If it is not, add it from the distribution.

This great for consultants who need to demo failover between nodes to customers without the luxury of having 64 bit boxes.  Hopefully this release will do to Sun Cluster what OpenSolaris did to Solaris!!