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Hooray! Acrobat Reader for [Open]Solaris x86

Today truly marks a milestone in the history of Solaris for the x86/x64 platform.  One of the most ubiquitous applications, Adobe Reader (notably Acrobat), is now available on [Open]Solaris for both Sparc and x86.

It's been a long time coming, one argument for the lack of Solaris x86 support till now was that [Open]Solaris didn't have the critical mass.  That's a hard one to swallow for the following reasons:

• There's been a Solaris Sparc version for a long time.  Solaris x86 downloads outnumber Sparc downloads by a large factor.
• Versions for AIX and HP-UX, which have a significantly smaller installed base, are available.  Maybe IBM and HP payed a lot of money for this?
• Until recently there were versions even for the likes of OS/2 and UnixWare.

Perhaps open source alternatives are becoming good enough to pose a threat?  Whatever the reason, we welcome the arrival of Acrobat Reader and Adobe's change of heart.

You can get your copy here.

Happy Downloading!

Posted at 05:17PM Mar 24, 2009 by jtc in Sun  |  Comments[0]