“Sun Microsystems on Wednesday will unveil its Solaris 8
operating system, which will include hundreds of new features and
enhancements over Solaris 7, a representative for Sun said
Monday.”
“Solaris 8, which has been available in beta version since
last November, is aimed at users looking to move their data centers
onto the Internet. Sun called reports that Solaris 8 will be “free
and open code” inaccurate.“
“One feature of Solaris 8 that has been anticipated is Live
Update, which keeps the old operating-system preferences and log
files intact as the user installs Solaris 8, according to
sources.”