In offering support for Solaris 10 OS and OpenSolaris, 3Tera takes the first step towards delivering a complete web services solution based on Sun products to be incorporated into the Cloudware architecture, which the company announced earlier this year.

"Sun's proven infrastructure software powers many of the most sophisticated online delivery environments," says Peter Nickolov, president and CTO of 3Tera. "Our announcement today is the next step in delivering on our Cloudware architecture announced earlier this year, providing an open cloud computing environment where users can leverage the best software technology available. Clearly Solaris is an important part of that solution."

AppLogic 2.3 Beta is now available for virtual private data center users and for download by licensed users. The release includes new OpenSolaris based appliances as part of the virtual appliance catalog.

Solaris 10 OS appliances are not distributed with AppLogic because of licensing requirements and users can find information on running the Solaris 10 OS in the 3Tera forums (forum.3tera.com/), says the company.

AppLogic 2.3 also includes many other new featuers, such as a new user interface, application state and start/stop controls added to the application list, new design annotations, documentation links and scratchpad notes provided with infrastructure editor, improved hardware device support for new chipsets, self-serve file system check/repair and support for locked appliances.

The AppLogic grid operating system is the first commercial platform designed specifically to enable true utility computing. The system converts commodity servers into scalable grids on which users can visually deploy, operate and scale transactional Web applications without any modification of code.

3Tera introduced in April its Cloudware architecture "for cloud computing without compromise," offering access to hosted computing power based on the company's AppLogic grid hosting operating system.