solaris

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Definition of solaris in English English dictionary: {i} operating system in a UNIX environment produced by Sun Microsystems that includes several graphic interfaces and windows systems (used primarily on servers); The Sun workstation operating environment, including SunOS and the OpenWindows windowing environment; A version of Unix, based initially on BSD Unix and later on system V Release 4, distributed by Sun for use on Sun workstations and 486 PCs; The operating system product of Sun Microsystems Solaris is a UNIX operating system; A Unix-based operating system developed by Sun Microsystems Originally developed to run on Sun's SPARC workstations, Solaris now runs on many workstations from other vendors; The Unix-like operating system supplied by Sun Microsystems on Sparc and Intel servers; Sun's version of UNIX based on AT&T System V and runs on Sun workstations; A UNIX operating system developed by Sun Microsystems that runs on multiple platforms; Created in 1992 by SUN as a fully multi-threaded and real-time reimplementation of their previous UNIX OS named generically SUN OS It is a very robust and scalable platform, working on small workstations to extremely large (64 CPU) servers The phrase "We are the dot in dot com" refers to the fact that the central domain-name servers are run on Solaris machines; Sun Microsystem’s software platform for networked applications Solaris includes an operating system, SunOS; Solaris is a multitasking, multiprocessing operating system and distributed computing environment for Sun's SPARC computers from SunSoft It provides an enterprise-wide UNIX environment that can manage up to 40,000 nodes from one central station Solaris is known for its robustness and scalability, which is expected in UNIX-based SMP systems An x86 version of Solaris is available that can also run applications written for Sun's Interactive UNIX