Breaking News - Operating Systems
& Software:
Sun Confirms Property Rights For
Its UNIX OS
Sun Microsystems, Inc. confirmed with its customers and partners that it
has
licensing rights to UNIX code, on which the Solaris Operating System is based
for both SPARC and recently available x86 systems. In light of SCO's legal
dispute with IBM over UNIX licensing rights, Sun announced it has absolutely
no licensing issues with SCO today. Sun's previous licensing agreements give
Sun complete UNIX IP rights in relation to Sun's operating systems. This makes
the Solaris Operating System a safe choice for customers moving forward. With
the Solaris multiplatform product line, customers can have a consistent
Solaris environment from low-end x86 servers, up to hundreds of processors, in
a SPARC mainframe-class system.
Sun confirms that:
- As part of a series of licensing agreements, Sun acquired rights to make
and ship derivative products based on the intellectual property in UNIX. This
forms the foundation for the Solaris OS that ships today.
- Sun's complete line of Solaris and Linux products -- including Solaris
for the SPARC and x86 platforms, Trusted Solaris, the industry's premier
highly secure operating system, and Sun Linux -- are covered by Sun's
portfolio of UNIX licensing agreements.
- Solaris and Sun Linux represent safe choices for those companies that
develop and deploy services based on UNIX systems.
About Solaris Operating System
The Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) is the premier OS for the
enterprise. With over 300 new features, the Solaris OS is the most scalable,
available, manageable and secure services platform for the networked world. By
focusing on industry standards, the Internet, innovation and integration, the
Solaris platform delivers a documented lower cost of operation. The Solaris OS
is the leading UNIX platform operating system with Sun servers owning 54
percent worldwide UNIX market share in shipments and 34 percent worldwide UNIX
revenue share, according to Gartner Dataquest's 3Q02 Servers Quarterly
Statistics.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The
Computer" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. to its position as a
leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that
make the Net work.
www.sun.com
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