SunSoft Unveils the Most Comprehensive and Scalable Network Operating Environment for Next Generation Processors; Solaris 2.5 Designed For Business' Most Critical Network, Internet, Desktop Applications

Business Wire, Oct 31, 1995

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 31, 1995--SunSoft, Inc., the leading information and communications infrastructure software company, today unveiled Solaris(tm) 2.5 for information technology professionals who deliver network computing solutions that give businesses a competitive advantage through improved communications, and the ability to quickly adapt to business change.

SunSoft's new release is the most scalable and secure operating system for network servers, Internet servers and high performance desktop systems.

Solaris is an enterprise-wide operating environment with a suite of infrastructure software for developing, deploying and managing advanced information and communications applications including data warehousing and customer management systems such as overnight mail package tracking systems or stock trading on Wall Street.

"Businesses worldwide know that their success is tightly coupled to improving the quality of information and driving and adapting to change," said SunSoft president Janpieter Scheerder. "Only Solaris provides the infrastructure software to achieve those business objectives. It is the only open network operating environment with integrated Internet and networking services and advanced development and management tools and the only one that can work across multiple processor and software environments, serving thousands of users per node as well as tens of thousands of users across the network. No other software company can make that claim."

Scheerder said SunSoft will introduce the new SPARC(tm) edition of Solaris next week at Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation's UltraComputing(tm) event and will announce the new Intel(r) edition of Solaris tomorrow at Intel Corporation's Pentium Pro(tm) introduction. Scheerder also said that the Solaris 2.5 PowerPC Edition is now in beta testing and will be demonstrated in the PowerPC(tm) Pavilion at Fall/Comdex `95 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Solaris 2.5: Scalable and Secure

Designed to run and manage a company's mission-critical technical and business applications such as software development, financial modeling, transaction processing, multidimensional databases and 3-D image processing and rendering programs, Solaris features new performance enhancements that include:

-- Industry-leading scalability from 1 to 64 processors.

-- More than 150 percent improvement in timesharing performance.

-- Up to 30 percent increase in NFS(tm) performance with support for NFS v3, delivering increased scalablity, file transfer performance, and security.

-- Superior database performance supporting over 1.5 terabytes.

-- Solaris Common Desktop Environment (CDE) graphical user interface optimized and enhanced for SunSoft environment with network-ready integrated applications including Mail, Calendar and File Manager.

-- Enhanced administration and security from ACLs and AdminTool within AdminSuite.

-- Increased 3D graphics speed and rendering performance including improvements in XGL, PEX, and XIL libraries for visual computing applications.

-- Support for new processors in particular, UltraSPARC(tm) and Pentium Pro.

"Solaris represents the only real competitor to NT. Its database support, advanced development tools and its scalability -- the ability to make efficient use of additional processors in a single system -- makes Solaris the operating system of choice for mission-critical database applications," said Joseph Vassallo, vice president of Oracle(r) Corporation's Open Systems Division. "Solaris can scale from one to 64 processors. If you can do 64, you can do four in your sleep."

Solaris 2.5 is SunSoft's most tested software release ever. SunSoft's focus on quality has produced the most scalable, secure and reliable operating environment available for today's most powerful desktop computers and servers.

Develop, Deploy, Run and Manage

Solaris is available with a comprehensive suite of infrastructure software for developing, deploying, running and managing a company's advanced information and communications applications. The suite of infrastructure software includes:

-- Solstice(tm) - systems and network management software, including security products, that allow administrators to manage the network from anywhere.

-- SunSoft WorkShop(tm) - an award-winning set of visual tools for rapidly developing mission-critical applications.

-- Solaris NEO(tm) - the first products for building applications based on networked objects that can be shared by applications anywhere on the network.

-- Java(tm) - the first network-enabled programming language for quickly prototyping and building platform independent applications that must run securely over enterprise networks and the Internet.

For more information call 1-800-SUNSOFT (1-800-786-7683), option 1, or 512-345-2412; or visit our World Wide Web site at http://www.sun.com/sunsoft/solaris/.>SunSoft Inc.

SunSoft, Inc. is the leading provider of information and communications infrastructure software. SunSoft's products - designed for information technology professionals, systems integrators, value added resellers and computer manufacturers - are used to deliver network, Internet, and desktop computing solutions that improve a company's internal and customer communications, and lets them quickly adapt to business change. SunSoft products are distributed through computer manufacturers and resellers worldwide. SunSoft is a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc. For more information, contact SunSoft on the Internet at http://www.sun.com/sunsoft/.>