HP offers Solaris on ProLiant

Stephen Withers
Thursday, 26 February 2009 03:34

IT Industry - Market

A relationship refresh between HP and Sun sees Solaris become a key operating system for the market-leading ProLiant server family.

An expanded relationship between HP and Sun means ProLiant server purchasers who want to run Solaris can do so with just one throat to choke.

"We're responding to our customers who have asked for expanded HP ProLiant operating environment support to address their diverse application requirements," said Mark Potter, senior vice president and general manager, BladeSystem and Insight software, HP.

"Backed by industry-leading HP Technology Services, the agreement gives our joint customers complete confidence to grow their businesses while also controlling costs."

HP will sell Solaris subscriptions for the ProLiant range and provide technical support.

The companies hope to take Solaris on ProLiant servers and blade systems into new markets, and will collaborate on the integration of Solaris and HP's Insight server management software.

HP's not saying how many of its ProLiant customers are already running Solaris, only that the number is "significant".

The announcement comes at a time when server revenues are dropping, but Unix and HP are travelling relatively well - please read on.