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Designed and created to enable high performance, Solaris provides services suited to the requirements of evolving business needs. Solaris, being a Unix-based system, incorporates all the power of Unix, reinforced with the expertise of Sun to render it as one of the most stable operating systems. The stability of Solaris is well established through an analysis of the uptimes for various running Solaris servers, which span years of non-stop and trouble-free performance.

Solaris 9.0 Operating Environment is the latest version of Solaris. It provides a wide range of administration tools that assist both user and system administration tasks. Solaris ...

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