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A2LL

The application server was developed using Microsoft's (D)COM technology and uses an Informix 9.4x database running on a Solaris machine containing 80 CPUs and a 300 GB Cache-RAM.

Automounter

Linux has an independent implementation of an autofs-based automounter; version 5 of that automounter generally operates compatibly with the Solaris automounter.

For example, an organization with a mixture of Linux and Solaris systems might arrange to host their software package repositories for each on a common file-server using export names like depot:/export/linux and depot:/export/solaris respectively.

Beyond the Tesseract

In 1988 the game was ported to Atari ST, MS-DOS and Solaris environments and, in 2003, to interactive fiction standard of machine-independent Z-code.

Bryan Cantrill

Upon completing his B.Sc. in 1996, he immediately joined Sun Microsystems to work with Jeff Bonwick in the Solaris Performance Group.

CA Workload Automation AE

The Application Servers and Schedulers are supported on: Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Linux and Windows servers.

Cliff Martinez

Martinez’s longstanding relationship with Soderbergh has continued through the years and they have worked together on ten theatrical releases including Kafka, The Limey, Traffic, Solaris and 2011’s Contagion.

Comet Kohoutek

The English techno group 808 State wrote and recorded the instrumental "Kohoutek", which appeared on their 1996 album Don Solaris.

Facing the World

The charity was launched publicly on 15 February 2003 at a charity fund-raising premiere of the film Solaris attended by George Clooney and his co-stars.

Galahad library

Support is provided for many operating systems, including Digital UNIX, Tru64 UNIX, Linux, HP-UX, AIX, IRIX and Solaris, and for a variety of popular Fortran 90 compilers on these platforms and operating systems.

Glen Cook

# "Shaggy Dog Bridge"---appeared in Fearsome Journeys: The New Solaris Book of Fantasy edited by Jonathan Strahan, published by Solaris (2013)

GNU toolchain

Parts of the GNU toolchain are also directly used with or ported to other platforms such as Solaris, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows (via Cygwin and MinGW/MSYS) and Sony PlayStation 3.

Greenplum

Greenplum Database was supported for production use on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.2 (64-bit), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x (64-bit), CentOS Linux 5.x (64-bit) and Sun Solaris 10U5+ (64-bit).

Hertfordshire Chorus

Hertfordshire Chorus is renowned for its innovative programming, frequently involving commissions such as "Mass in Blue" and "Ode to a Nightingale" by Will Todd, "Ice" by Orlando Gough and "Solaris" by Steve Block.

IBM mainframe

There are software-based emulators for the System/370, System/390, and System z hardware, including FLEX-ES and the freely available Hercules emulator which runs under Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.

InMage

It also supports VMware, XenServer, Hyper-V, Solaris Zones and a few other server virtualization platforms.

IPMP

IP network multipathing, a facility provided by Solaris to provide fault-tolerance and load spreading for network interface cards

Kernel-based Virtual Machine

A wide variety of guest operating systems work with KVM, including many flavours of Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows, Haiku, ReactOS, Plan 9, and AROS Research Operating System.

Lempel–Ziv–Oberhumer

Various LZO implementations are reported to work under Win32, AIX, ConvexOS, IRIX, Mac OS, Palm OS, PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Wii, Solaris, SunOS, TOS (Atari ST), Linux and VxWorks.

Michael Larabel

Larabel is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite - an open-source benchmarking software package for Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, BSD, and Windows operating systems - and related software such as Phoromatic and PTS Desktop Live.

MMDF

A re-coded variant of MMDF, called Pascal MDF (PMDF) was written at the University of Pennsylvania for VMS and was eventually commercialized through Innosoft, which subsequently ported PMDF to Tru64 Unix and Solaris.

Nohup

The AIX and Solaris versions of nohup have a -p option that modifies a running process to ignore future SIGHUP signals.

Page fault

Contrary to what the name 'page fault' might suggest, page faults are not always errors and are common and necessary to increase the amount of memory available to programs in any operating system that utilizes virtual memory, including Microsoft Windows, Unix-like systems (including Mac OS X, Linux, *BSD, Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX), and z/OS.

Pandora FMS

They run on any type of platform (Microsoft, AIX, Solaris, Linux, IPSO, Mac OS or FreeBSD), also SAP, because the agents can communicate with the Pandora FMS Servers to send data in XML using SSH, FTP, NFS, Tentacle (protocol) or any data transfer means.

Paul Kearney

However, Kearney was quickly signed-up by publisher Solaris Books, who contracted him to write a new fantasy epic entitled The Ten Thousand and based loosely on the Anabasis of Xenophon.

PKG

the pkg Image Packaging System used to install the Solaris Operating systems and its applications

Pragmatic General Multicast

It is not yet a standard, but has been implemented in some networking devices and operating systems, including Windows XP and later versions of Microsoft Windows, as well as in third-party libraries for Linux, Windows and Solaris.

SciTech SNAP

SciTech SNAP Graphics has been ported to MS-DOS, OS/2, Microsoft Windows (CE, NT, 2000, XP), QNX, SMX (the SunOS/Solaris port of MINIX), Linux, On Time RTOS-32, Unununium OS operating systems.

Starlink Project

Between 1992 and 1995 the project switched to UNIX (and switched the networking to TCP/IP), supporting Digital UNIX on Alpha-based systems, and Solaris on systems from Sun Microsystems.

Sun Java Calendar Server

The Calendar Server version 6.3 is supported on multiple operating systems including Sun's Solaris and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Sun Open Storage

Core features provided by Solaris include the operating environment, the ZFS file-system, an analytics tool based on Dtrace, the Network File System (NFS) and CIFS protocol interfaces and other core features.

SWsoft

Parallels Desktop for Mac - Enables Mac users to run Windows, Linux, Solaris, etc. with their Mac OS X on any Intel-powered iMac, Mac mini, MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacPro Towers.

USB mass storage device class

However, a keydrive or any other device may be formatted using another filesystem (for example HFS Plus on an Apple Macintosh, or Ext2 under Linux, or Unix File System under Solaris or BSD).

Virtual resource partitioning

VRP can be implemented in any OS and is available on Windows, Red Hat, Suse, HP-UX, Solaris, tru64, AIX and others.

WideStudio

This enables you to develop GUI applications that can run on Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/CE, Linux, FreeBSD, SOLARIS, Mac OS X (w/X11), BTRON, T-Engine, mu-CLinux (wo/X11) in various programming languages such as C/C++, Java, Perl, Ruby, Python, OCaml.


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