At the Oracle Open World "Sun and Dell announced their cooperation. The Unix operating system Solaris 10 will be in this part of Dell's servers, and also with software vendors to work together.

Dell expanded its range of operating systems for business customers to Solaris.

Specifically, this means that there will PowerEdge servers with Solaris 10 will come. The two companies also want to work the system certification and also with other software vendors together to ensure that Solaris on Dell servers.

Solaris was previously primarily available for SPARC, Sun's own architecture. Meanwhile, however, Sun reinforces the fact the x86-Variante of the operating system to disseminate and advance into areas that were previously other Unix variants or Linux reserved. The agreement, the market opportunities for both party redefine, Schwartz in his keynote.

Dell's competitors IBM and HP both offer has been for some time server with Solaris.