“About 300 users of the software have begun testing
Solaris 8, Sun said today. The final version is expected in
the first half of 2000… The new version will include better
support of Java techology, the ability to spread jobs across
‘clusters’ of 8 servers together instead of the current limit of 4,
and will be more reliable…”
“The new version of Solaris adds to the commotion in the area of
server operating systems… Some of that commotion is being caused
by computers–expected to arrive in the second half of 2000–that
will use Intel’s Merced chip and other members of the ‘IA-64’
family.”
“Sun has Solaris working on an IA-64 simulator, but not yet on
prototypes of the new chips…”