November 9, 2011 — Oracle has duly and at last announced the Solaris 11 Unix system, developed under the code-name “Nevada” at the former Sun Microsystems and representing the foundation of the future Sparc systems business that Oracle hopes to rebuild.
Solaris 11 is perhaps a little later coming to market than planned because of the Oracle acquisition of Sun in January 2010 and the changes in chips and systems before and after the deal. More importantly, the delay is the result of Oracle’s desire to fully leverage the Sparc processor, the Solaris operating system, and the Oracle stack of database, middleware, and application software as a highly tuned system with a better system for testing and patching software in the entire stack as it changes and thereby allowing Oracle to command a premium for Sparc-based systems because they are easier to operate and support. Read more
