At JavaOne, one of the big announcements was a hookup between Amazon, specifically EC2, and OpenSolaris (finally generally released as a full open source OS). The collaboration between Amazon and OpenSolaris will give customers access to OpenSolaris (for feree) and MySQL premium technical support, and more. The key selling points are ZFS and D-Trace. Now, I am a big Linux guy, but options are always good and enterprise relationships/partnerships are just a sign of the maturing and relevance of cloud computing.
Sun and Amazon jump into the pool together
At JavaOne, one of the big announcements was a hookup between Amazon, specifically EC2, and OpenSolaris (finally generally released as a full open source OS). The collaboration between Amazon and OpenSolaris will give customers access to OpenSolaris (for feree) and MySQL premium technical support, and more. The key selling points are ZFS and D-Trace. Now, I am a big Linux guy, but options are always good and enterprise relationships/partnerships are just a sign of the maturing and relevance of cloud computing.
Aside. It’s interesting that Sun talks about OpenSolaris as the OpenSolaris community
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