HP and Sun Sign Solaris on ProLiant Distribution and Support Deal
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Today, Sun and HP announced a multi-year OEM agreement enabling HP to distribute and support the Solaris 10 OS on HP ProLiant servers and blades. Although the knee-jerk reaction here--given that HP is the last of the top five systems vendors to ship Solaris--might be to ask: What took so long? HP's commitment is a very real demonstration of its recognition of the growing demand for Solaris on non-Sun platforms. And, today the two companies made a crucial step toward addressing those customer needs.
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As part of the deal, HP will sell standard and premium (9x5 and 24x7) one year and three year Solaris subscriptions. Also, Sun now becomes a strategic HP ProLiant OS distribution partner, and
Solaris has been elevated to the lineup of key operating systems in HP's OS portfolio, which already includes operating systems from Microsoft, Red Hat and Novell. Ultimately, this announcement demonstrates Sun's commitment to offering customers a wide range of systems for Solaris. As part of that commitment, Sun and HP will provide Solaris sales training to HP Sales and partner closely on certification and solution development
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It's a little discussed secret that Solaris enjoys the largest installed base of any commercial UNIX or Linux distribution. It is also true that the Solaris OS is supported on more than 1000 platforms, with more than
150 HP/Compaq systems on Sun's Hardware Compatibility List (HCL). Plus there are currently more than 7,800 x86 applications shipping for Solaris.
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| So, what's behind the deal? Well, the recognition of strong customer demand can, in part, be explained by features like ZFS, Predictive Self-Healing and DTrace that help customers improve uptime, cut costs and speed time to market.
Add to that release-to-release binary compatibility, which provides excellent application performance
on today’s and tomorrow’s multi-core 64-bit x86 processors. And, throw in a dose of the fact that
the Solaris OS is an open source, indemnified, highly secure and commercially-
supported platform. Add it all up, and you get a great deal for both parties that goes a long way to giving customers what they want, Solaris, where they want it.
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With this deal, HP and Sun will do good business
Posted by Computer Service Toronto on July 18, 2009 at 03:07 PM PDT #
One more step against Microsoft. Don't know if it is a good news for Microsoft supporting services.
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