Verwacht wordt dat Sun binnenkort bekend zal maken dat het Solaris 8, waarvan de release voor midden februari gepland staat, onder de gratis Sun Community Source License zal introduceren. Solaris zal concurreren met Windows 2000 Datacenter en Linux, die met de steun van IBM, Intel en Hewlett Packard hard op weg is om een serieus alternatief te worden in het wereldje van de network operating systems:
Sun is expected to make its "free Solaris" campaign the centerpiece of its Solaris 8 unveiling, which takes place this Wednesday in New York City. At that event, Sun also is expected to announce it will open up access to Solaris 8 source code. Solaris 8 is due to ship in February, around the same time Microsoft is due to ship Windows 2000.Sun has been working for over a year to offer Solaris under the Sun Community Source License but was stymied by the fact that it didn't own all the intellectual property inside Solaris. SCSL is a quasi open-source license that requires developers to return bug fixes to Sun, maintain compatibility and pay fees to Sun when they ship binaries based on Sun source code. [break] Fiets richting dit nieuwsbericht van ZDNet om het complete verhaaltje na te lezen. Techweb geeft meer info over de nieuwe features in Solaris 8: [/break] A new feature in the upgrade -- fault detection and analysis -- lets IS administrators establish policies for problematic conditions. For example, if a processor gets too hot, the capability may instruct a system to shut down the processor and reboot. Another feature -- the reconfiguration coordination manager -- lets administrators write policies that automatically redistribute system capacity. Processing capacity has been increased from 30,000 to one million concurrent processes.
New Internet features in Solaris include support for an unlimited number of IP addresses and an Internet security standard specification called IPSec.
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