OpenSolaris 2008.05 is Now Available
Take your idea from experiment to global deployment on a single platform in a familiar environment. Complete with free, built-in features, OpenSolaris can be deployed on nearly 1000 systems.
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Optimal Sun Studio compiler options for MySQL
This blog entry describes the changes that were made to improve MySQL performance using Sun Studio in SXDE 01/08. Sun Studio was used to compile MySQL on both Solaris SPARC and Solaris AMD64 platform.
Atomic SPARC: Using the SPARC Atomic Instructions
This article introduces the SPARC memory model and atomic instructions, then implements some IBM AIX interfaces for use on the Solaris OS (SPARC Platform Edition).
Young Developers
These tools and web sites teach young people how to program using the Java programming language, as well as languages developed for ease of use.