For those who think Solaris is dead and "Linux" will take over the world, a recent survey by Forrester Research (NOT paid for by Sun) points out that Solaris is one of the top three "strategic" OS platforms. This shows the value of communities and openness in the software space. More about this at Jonathan Schwartz blog.
Some interesting quotes include:
Solaris is back on the winner's podium. Sun Solaris has regained its "historical significance" in European financial services.
Linux has lost traction.
Pure J2EE is still strategically very important.
Want to get Solaris for free? Download Solaris 10 today or participate in the OpenSolaris community.
Sun invites you to read the independent Forrester report titled "European Financial Services Architecture Shows Clear Strategic Direction"(January 2008) in which Forrester reports Solaris as one of the top 3 most strategically positioned operating systems in European Financial Services Firms.
Solaris has been receiving EAL4 evaluations against the Controlled Access Protection Profile (CAPP) since the Solaris 2.5 days. With Solaris 8 we added the RBAC PP. To the best of my knowledge the Linux variants (RHAT 4 and Suse) have only recently (2006) received EAL 4 evaluations. We were the first to have a multi-level OS with TSOL 2.5 and some versions of SunOS 4. (aka Solaris 1.X) Several versions of Trusted Solaris (2.5. 2.6, 8) have received EAL4 evaluations including the LSPP. No Linux or MS Windows variant has ever received this evaluation yet.
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