Dell, Sun announce Solaris 10 distribution agreement
ConvergenceAsia staff
17/11/2007

Dell and Sun Microsystems have signed an OEM agreement for Dell to make the Solaris Operating System (OS) and Solaris support services available directly to customers for select Dell PowerEdge servers.

The multi-year distribution agreement was announced live from Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, where Sun President and CEO, Jonathan Schwartz and Dell Chairman and CEO, Michael Dell, are keynote speakers.

With this announcement, Dell is expanding the range of enterprise-class operating systems it offers to its customers and Sun is expanding the reach of its Solaris OS.

As part of the relationship, Dell and Sun will cooperate on system certification and the development of offerings based on Solaris and Dell solutions. In addition, Dell and Sun have agreed to work together to secure support from key ISVs (independent software vendors) for Solaris on Dell PowerEdge servers.

Dell's offering of Solaris redefines the market opportunity for both companies, said Jonathan Schwartz, president and CEO, Sun Microsystems.

Both companies will work to ensure the combination of Dell PowerEdge servers and the Solaris OS delivers customer choice and value for applications that demand reliability, security, scalability, performance and integrated virtualisation.

"The relationship gives Dell broader reach into the global free software community with Solaris and OpenSolaris and gives Sun access to channels and customers across the volume marketplace," Schwartz added.

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