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Sun to enhance Solaris with Linux like features

Sun Microsystems Inc. is said to be working on enhancing their Solaris operating system products to add Linux features in it as they aim to attract more developers to code for their product.

Analysts say that Solaris is set to receive key pieces from Linux operating system so that the platform becomes more lucrative to open source developers.

IDC software analyst Al Gillen added in a statement: “This is a big deal to the extent that it lowers the barrier for adoption of Solaris.”

Ladislav Bodnar, founder of Distrowatch.com had this to say: “Solaris is hard to set up. It doesn’t have good hardware support. The hope is that things may change.”

George Weiss, an analyst with Gartner added: “Everything that the Linux developer likes to have at their fingertips, I think they would like to have for Solaris.”