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More than 11 millions licenses have been distributed for Solaris 10 and the community is continuing to grow. Learn why customers and partners choose Solaris 10 to help make their businesses more successful.

Bancaribe

Sun Helps Drive Business Expansion at Financial Services Firm with Server Consolidation and Scalable Architecture
Sun helps drive business expansion at Bancaribe with server consolidation and scalable architecture providing increased performance and availability..

C.A. Mobile

Solaris Containers Greatly Improves Operational Efficiency
"...the system overall has improved in stability by utilizing Solaris Containers to distribute services on virtual OS. And for day-to-day system administration, it really helps...routine tasks" Soichiro Nedate, System Group Sepecialist, C.A. Mobile

Chicago Board Options Exchange

Largest U.S. Options Exchange Achieving a Competitive Lead with the Solaris 10 Operating System, Java Technology and Sun Systems
The Chicago Board Options Exchange leveraged Java, the Solaris 10 OS, Sun Servers, Sun Storage and Sun Services to create and maintain the ultra-high performance environment needed to support its unique business requirements of speed and availability.

Dow Corning Corporation

Three-Person IT UNIX Team Supports 4.4 Billion Dollar Global Corporation Using Solaris 10
"The stability of Solaris 10 has been simply outstanding. It's delivered additional key functionality while continuing to provide the same outstanding level of availability to which we've become accustomed." - Ken Karls, Manager of Network and Datacenter Engineering, Dow Corning

eBay, Inc.

eBay Drives Explosive Growth using Sun Technology and Sun Services
eBay relies on a spectrum of Sun servers, storage and software solutions, which reduce the company's total cost of ownership, optimize application performance and gains a 20% improvement in application performance with Solaris 10.

Glasses Direct

World's Largest Direct Seller of Prescription Glasses, and Sun Startup Essentials Member, Migrates From LAMP to SAMP
"Linux as a platform was fine up to a point, but Red Hat can't provide the level of support that Sun has given us. I also ran a comparative test of Apache on Red Hat Linux and Apache on Solaris. Apache on Solaris was about 450 percent faster." - Derek Colvin, Head of IT, Glasses Direct

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Global System Services Corporation

Sun Fire X4200 Server with Solaris 10 and VMWare Replaces 10 Intel Machines, Pays for Itself in Under Three Months
GSS purchased a Sun Fire X4200 server with Solaris 10 and installed VMWare. The combination replaced 10 Intel servers. Now GSS is experiencing higher productivity, increased server utilization and a rapid return on investment.

Moodlerooms, Inc.

Open Source Software Delivered on Sun Platform Allows Services Company To Support Education Community
"By basing our datacenter infrastructure on Sun Fire T2000 servers and the Solaris 10 Operating System, we know we can guarantee uptime. We haven't taken service down once in a single year, and we need only one person to run the entire operation. The thing just runs itself, and we designed it that way from the ground up." - Stuart Sim, CTO and Chief Architect, Moodlerooms

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netINS Inc.

50% Reduction in TCO for Servers Virtualized Using Solaris 10 Containers
"We're able to consolidate four of our old boxes onto one newer box using Solaris Containers. We plan to do this with a number of other systems." - Steve Guntly, Manager, Systems Administration, netINS Inc.

OmniTI

Optimizing Database Solution With PostgreSQL and Solaris 10
"PostgreSQL is very smart. It can look at data and figure out exactly how to answer a question most efficiently. It's also far less expensive than Oracle with comparable features." - Theo Schlossnagle, Principal, OmniTI

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OurStage, Inc.

OpenSolaris Helps Media and Entertainment Venture Capital Funded Startup Improve I/O Performance
OurStage moved its production storage systems to OpenSolaris to improve load balancing and I/O performance. OpenSolaris and ZFS have provided OurStage with an easily scalable enterprise solution to accommodate future growth of the Web site.

Customer Video
Alex Plant of Sun Global Communications speaks with Mark Niedzielski, Infrastructure manager at OurStage about the benefits seen by moving the OurStage.com production storage systems to OpenSolaris. Additionally, Mark discusses how ZFS and OpenSolaris have enabled the company to scale its website to accommodate future growth.

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Postful

Postful Migrates to Solaris 10
New web-based service gains 30% faster performance and 45% reduction in hosting costs by moving from Linux to Solaris 10 and Sun.

Qualcomm

Qualcomm Improves Reliability and Availability of Critical CRM Applications
Wireless technology leader achieves 99.99% availability for Oracle CRM applications with Sun Fire v490 servers and Solaris 10.

Reliant Security

OpenSolaris Drives Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI) Compliance Solution to a Significantly Lower Cost
Reliant Security depends on OpenSolaris, Solaris 10 and Sun servers to run its Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliant information security products. Many companies in the retail industry have adopted it's secure, low cost PCI compliant solution enterprisewide.

Sapotek

Sapotek Sees Sixfold Increase in Server Performance With the Solaris 10 OS vs. Linux
"...we migrated to the Solaris OS for three reasons: better scalability, enhanced performance, and high availability. We got them all." - Joshua Rand, CEO, Sapotek Inc.

Saudi Telecom

Protect Investments While Minimizing IT Investment Risks
The Solaris 10 Operating System gives Saudi Telecom carrier-grade reliability, security and performance and advanced management tools for real-time application debugging.

SearchForce, Inc.

Sun Startup Essentials Program Used to Implement a Fast, Reliable Web 2.0 Services Platform
SearchForce, Inc. uses Solaris Containers for optimized system performance and offers its customers 99.999 percent service levels.

Siteworx

Siteworx Optimized its Platform to Create Fast and Innovative Web Properties Using Solaris 10
"The Solaris 10 Operating System is extremely reliable and has provided us with 100 percent availability since our implementation about a year ago. We bought Sun solutions because of their superior technology." - Tim McLaughlin, Founder and President, Siteworx, Inc.

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TransactTools

Enabling Faster High-Volume Electronic Trading
In the financial services industry where timing is everything, a Sun Fire V20z system with AMD Opteron processors running the Solaris 10 OS drives TransactTools' TCM5 transaction connectivity server 50 to 200 percent faster than similar systems running Windows or Red Hat Linux.

UCLA

Brain Research Lab Powered by Solaris 10 and Sun Servers
This deployment includes 306 Sun Fire V20z servers running Solaris 10. The organization worked closely with a Sun Solution Center to evaluate operating systems. While they were originally considering Linux, their benchmark tests showed that Solaris 10 would provide the best price/performance for the UCLA Laboratory of Neuro Imaging.

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UGS Corp.

Sun Helps UGS Corp. Realize Massive Cost Savings by Reducing Server Sprawl
Solaris Containers—Sun's virtualization and software partitioning technology—provide UGS with exceptional flexibility that has increased server utilization by 25 percent. UGS expects more than $300,000 in cost savings.

Ventyx

Virtualizing Data Center and Delivering 18:1 Server Consolidation
Ventyx saved 30 percent of its capital budget for CPUs by buying Sun equipment and straight out of the box, Solaris ran Ventyx's software 11 percent faster than on Linux.

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ZhengTu Network Technology Ltd.

Online Gaming Company with 40,000,000 Users Migrates From Linux to Solaris 10, Increases Performance by 50%
Solaris 10 gave ZhengTu Network a high level of reliability and security and a simple, cross-platform solution that protects the company's investment.