The software is also designed to lay the foundation for grid computing, which IBM touts as a way for businesses to buy computing power on demand, similar to the way electricity and other utilities are purchased.
New features in Solaris 9 for Intel include the Solaris 9 Resource Manager, which lets system administrators confine a program to a 'container' that limits how much processor power and memory it's allowed to use.
Sun is also working to boost software support for the version of Solaris that runs on "x86" chips, such Intel's Xeon or AMD's Opteron. But it's not just a Linux strategy: the company's Linux-based Java Desktop System software product in the future...
Sun also has an answer to micro-partitioning: N1 Grid Containers, a feature due to arrive by year-end in Solaris 10. These containers make a single version of the operating system appear to have multiple independent instances, and the technology...
Symantec said in an advisory: "The impact of this vulnerability is exaggerated by the fact that many email and other traffic routing gateways make use of file-scanning utilities that make use of the vulnerable library.
The deal, announced on Tuesday, will see Parallels Virtuozzo Containers running on HP Integrity servers, including the largest, 64-processor HP Integrity Superdome servers. Parallels' Containers partition an operating system into different...