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  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • February 2, 2005
    Stephen Shankland writes about Solaris 10 being available now, free of charge:

    ``Sun Microsystems has fulfilled its pledge to make its newest version of the Solaris operating system available for free.

    ``On Monday evening, the server and software company began offering Solaris 10 as a free download for those who register. Anyone may use Solaris for commercial or noncommercial use, and Sun will supply security fixes as they're released, but those wanting bug fixes and support must sign a support contract with Sun.

    ``Solaris 10 is a crucial part of the company's attempt to fend off Linux and Windows and to maintain leadership against its two main Unix rivals, IBM's AIX and Hewlett-Packard's HP-UX. Elements of the attempt include major technological upgrades, the no-charge licensing, and an effort to build an open-source community that helps Sun develop the software.''

    Full story at News.com:
    http://news.com.com/2100-1016-5559021.html

    Source code will be available in the second quarter, but there has been some concern expressed about the rights of contributors:
    http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050121014650517

    And Michael Kanellos writes about Sun's idea to sell compute cycles on their planned grid:

    ``In the Sun Grid, consumers pay $1 for each CPU-hour--an hour's worth of work by a computer's central processing unit--and then run their computing problems on a bank of servers and storage systems owned and maintained by Sun.

    ``Multiple servers, and thus multiple CPUs, are used simultaneously to solve these problems. In a demonstration, Sun Chief Operating Officer Jonathan Schwartz submitted a project to the Sun Grid--graphically rendering data from a protein folding experiment. It took only a few seconds, but cost $12. The 12 hours of CPU time for which Schwartz was billed was consumed by hundreds of machines simultaneously clicking away at the rendering problem for a few seconds each.''

    Full story:
    http://news.com.com/2100-7784-5559559.html

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