The agreement, announced on Wednesday, extends the market reach of the Solaris platform and helps Sun and Rackable Systems expand their integrated offerings, the companies said. Sun’s Solaris platform will be able to run on Rackable systems based on AMD, Intel and Xeon processors.
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“In addition to offering Solaris for x86 systems as an enterprise-class operating system choice to our customers, we will now be able to go one step further and offer hardware configuration certification,” said Tom Barton, president and CEO of Rackable Systems. “Customers will now benefit from fully-integrated Sun software and management tools, as well as the solid Solaris product life cycle that guarantees release-to-release binary compatibility.”
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Sun said the agreement will help it extend Solaris into key vertical markets where Rackable Systems has a strong base of customers.
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“Partnering with Rackable Systems is part of Sun’s core strategy to aggressively work with original equipment manufacturers and independent software vendors to increase market penetration, solutions availability and application support for the Solaris operating system,” says Ann Wettersten, vice president of software systems marketing at Sun Microsystems. “Integration partners like Rackable Systems are building new business opportunities with Solaris by leveraging Sun’s investment in its x86 offerings.”
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According to Netcraft’s most recent Web server survey, SunOne held 3.34 percent of the Web server market.
