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Santa Clara, Calif.-based Sun Microsystems emulates Linux with new Solaris.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 2004

By Therese Poletti, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Nov. 15--Sun Microsystems will roll out today its latest version of its Solaris operating system, a product that is key to the Santa Clara company's future.

Solaris 10 for servers has been widely anticipated by Sun's current base of big corporate users. The Santa Clara company is introducing a high-end and low-end version of Solaris 10.

The launch marks a major effort to boost its low-end industry standard server business, which plans to offer Solaris 10 as an alternative to Linux, the open-source software that has been encroaching on Sun since the dot-com bubble burst in late 2000.

The Santa Clara company said it will offer its low-end...

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