Sun Microsystem
The Solaris Operating Environment
The Solaris Group in 1999
Responding to the NT Challenge
Sun Microsystem
Software
Workstations & Servers
Sun and Open Standards
Next Decisions
The competitive Environment
Competitors
Independent SW Vendors
Customers
OS Operating System
is an operating environment - collection of softwares programs that allowed an application program to interact with computer HD.
KERNEL is the central module of an OS
The situation in 1999: The most famous OS producer in the world was Microsoft with 90% of market share (MKS).
Apple computer has 4% of MKS - few niche players such as Amiga
Open Source Software Movement
GNU/Linux
Servers
Late 90's development of client-server architecture