Wednesday October 25, 2006

Not so long ago, Sun hardware and the Solaris operating system used to be synonymous with having an Internet presence of any kind. Then the NASDAQ crashed, the bubble burst and unfortunately Sun and Solaris pulled back from its position of pre-eminence.

Fast forward to 2006. Sun is back into the game with AMD 64 based Opteron servers. And then, there is Solaris 10!

As I mentioned in a previous blog entry, Solaris 10 now ships with a recent release of BIND 9, the defacto standard implementation of DNS client and servers on Unix/Linux. What better than the stringent performance and security requirements of one of the nodes of a root DNS server to demonstrate that Solaris 10 can do the heavy lifting of virtually anything one can throw at it?

Solaris 10 now powers one of the global nodes of F-Root, itself one of the 13 root DNS servers of the Internet. Just one more confirmation that Solaris 10 is helping Sun get back to its position of eminence. ( Oct 25 2006, 07:47:19 PM PDT ) Permalink