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Oracle Solaris

Solaris
Screenshot of Java Desktop System on Solaris 10
DeveloperSun Microsystems (acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2010)
Written inC, C++
OS familyUnix (SVR4)
Working stateCurrent
Source modelMixed
Initial releaseJune 1992 (1992-06)
Latest release11.4 SRU61[1] / September 18, 2023 (2023-09-18)
Marketing targetServer, workstation
PlatformsCurrent: SPARC, x86-64
Former: IA-32, PowerPC
Kernel typeMonolithic with dynamically loadable modules
UserlandPOSIX
Default
user interface		GNOME[2]
LicenseVarious
Preceded bySunOS
Official websitewww.oracle.com/solaris

Solaris is a proprietary Unix operating system originally developed by Sun Microsystems. After the Sun acquisition by Oracle in 2010, it was renamed Oracle Solaris.[3]

Solaris superseded the company's earlier SunOS in 1993, and became known for its scalability, especially on SPARC systems, and for originating many innovative features such as DTrace, ZFS and Time Slider.[4][5] Solaris supports SPARC and x86-64 workstations and servers from Oracle and other vendors. Solaris was registered as compliant with the Single UNIX Specification until 29 April 2019.[6][7][8]

Historically, Solaris was developed as proprietary software. In June 2005, Sun Microsystems released most of the codebase under the CDDL license, and founded the OpenSolaris open-source project.[9] With OpenSolaris, Sun wanted to build a developer and user community around the software. After the acquisition of Sun Microsystems in January 2010, Oracle decided to discontinue the OpenSolaris distribution and the development model.[10][11] In August 2010, Oracle discontinued providing public updates to the source code of the Solaris kernel, effectively turning Solaris 11 back into a closed source proprietary operating system.[12] Following that, OpenSolaris was forked as Illumos and is alive through several illumos distributions. In September 2017, Oracle laid off most of the Solaris teams.[13]

  1. ^ "Announcing Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU61". September 18, 2023. Retrieved October 1, 2023.
  2. ^ "Oracle Solaris 11 Desktop Feature Summary".
  3. ^ "Oracle Solaris Documentation". Operating Systems Documentation, Oracle official website. Oracle. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
  4. ^ Michael Totty (September 11, 2006). "Innovation Awards: The Winners Are..." Wall Street Journal. Retrieved July 5, 2008. The DTrace trouble-shooting software from Sun was chosen as the Gold winner in The Wall Street Journal's 2006 Technology Innovation Awards contest
  5. ^ "2008 Technology of the Year Awards: Storage – Best File System". InfoWorld. January 2008. Archived from the original on July 3, 2008. Retrieved July 5, 2008.
  6. ^ "Open Brand Certificate, Unix 03, Oracle Solaris 11 FCS and later" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on October 22, 2019.
  7. ^ "The Open Brand Register of Certified Products, Wayback machine, January 11, 2020". The Open Group. Archived from the original on January 11, 2020.
  8. ^ "The Open Brand Register of Certified Products". The Open Group.
  9. ^ Michael Singer (January 25, 2005). "Sun Cracks Open Solaris". InternetNews.com. Retrieved April 12, 2010.
  10. ^ Steven Stallion / Oracle (August 13, 2010). "Update on SXCE". Iconoclastic Tendencies.
  11. ^ Alasdair Lumsden. "OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express". osol-discuss (Mailing list). Archived from the original on August 16, 2010. Retrieved November 24, 2014.
  12. ^ Solaris still sorta open, but OpenSolaris distro is dead on Ars Technica by Ryan Paul (Aug 16, 2010)
  13. ^ "Oracle staff report big layoffs across Solaris, SPARC teams". September 4, 2017.

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