Sun boosts Solaris with open source database

This news of Sun giving folks a real database option is great news for many people out there. The availability of PostgreSQL could be a real time saver.

Boosting its Solaris OS, Sun Microsystems plans to distribute the PostgreSQL open source database with Solaris and will enable Red Hat
Linux binaries to run unmodified on the OpenSolaris open source version of the operating system.

The company’s multifaceted announcement Thursday also includes intentions to offer ZFS (Zettabyte File System), a 128-byte file system with enhanced error detection correction capabilities, to open source via OpenSolaris.

In accommodating customer requests for an open source database, company officials acknowledged the PostgreSQL arrangement’s potential to clash with a renewed relationship Sun has with commercial database vendor Oracle. Oracle was aware of today’s move with PostgreSQL, but the company lacks an open source database, according to Sun. [Read the rest]

[tags]open source,solaris os,sun microsystems,postgresql[/tags]