- Solaris is a Unix operating system originally developed by Sun Microsystems, which superseded their earlier SunOS in 1992.
- Oracle Solaris, as it is now known, is owned by Oracle Corporation after Oracle's acquisition of Sun in January 2010
- Solaris is known for its scalability, especially on SPARC systems, and for originating many innovative features such as DTrace and ZFS.
- Solaris supports SPARC-based and x86-based workstations and servers from Sun and other vendors, with efforts underway to port to additional platforms.
Solaris for their x86 server systems:
