Oracle has mapped out plans for Solaris 11

Friday, December 17, 2010 News , Open-Source , Open-Source-News , Oracle , Solaris , UNIX 0 Comments

Oracle executives have talked over the plans for Solaris 11 that is set to be released in 2011. Advancements are to be made in availability, security, and virtualization.

Solaris 11 will feature next-generation networking capabilities for scalability and performance, said John Fowler, Oracle executive vice president of systems, at a company event in Santa Clara, Calif. "It's a complete reworking of [the] enterprise OS," he said. Oracle took over Solaris early this year, when they acquired Sun Sun Microsystems.

Also at Thursday's event, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison expressed Oracle's intention to dominate the Linux space. "Solaris is clearly the number one Unix, and we're working very hard at making Oracle Enterprise Linux the number one Linux," he said.

Oracle has already released Solaris 11 Express, a version of the OS geared for developers and a preview for the upcomming Solaris 11. This Express release of Solaris cannot be used in production or commercial environments.