Solaris Express Developer Edition Heroes

From the SXDE Community:

See who has installed SXDE and how it is working out for them.

Lally Singh, Ph.d Student at Virginia Tech
"My CS research is in the scalability of massively multiplayer online games.

Solaris's robustness and the DTrace toolset make a perfect environment for my work. I can run many copies of the Torque game engine, and then profile the server instance with DTrace, interactively building a model of it's memory/network/cpu needs as I add more users.

I'm also setting up containers to independently house multiple server instances so that they don't interfere with each other—partially simulating a clustered server environment."

Mark Scheck, Senior Unix Administrator
IPC Information Systems
"I've been using Solaris for almost 20 years, but in the last 5 years have started supporting more and more Linux systems. Solaris seemed like it was getting old in the tooth. The common GNU tools I use daily weren't included. Now with SXDE Sun has committed to being back in the forefront of technology and for the first time in years I'm excited about Sun!"

Serge Bornow, Jeveloper Consultancy, Toronto, Canada
"I was very glad to see the new and improved SXDE and installed it on my Sun Ultra workstation. I use Netbeans heavily in my projects. I have been pushing Netbeans everywhere I go (since I'm a consultant J2EE developer). Solaris 64bit OS works like a charm, very quick for everything X have to do, when deploying the web app from NB hitting F5 the built script says it took 0 seconds to deploy, I LOVE IT. Solaris is great for server [applications] and I wanted a powerful OS to work for my needs so when Sun released a Developer version, was thrilled, it helps me develop quicker indeed. "

James Cornell, Developer
"I chose to evaluate Solaris Express Developer Edition as a preferred environment for general software development, and was pleasantly surprised that it is a solid product with great tools and a very innovative community behind it. I'm using it to develop a Solaris version of a project management system called Radium, which uses server/client architecture and ideally native toolkits."