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Sun to Support PostrgreSQL

Sun just announced they'll be supporting PostgreSQL, a.k.a. "The world's most advanced open source database" in their new Solaris 10, a.k.a. "The most advanced operating system on the planet".

Postgres for Solaris, the Solaris-optimized version of PostgreSQL, is just one part of Sun's push to support more open source software under Solaris 10, according to yesterday's press release. There's also Solaris Containers for Linux Applications for running Red Hat Linux binaries inside secured "Containers" under Solaris.

Solaris 10 will also interoperate with the Xen virtualization project, working with XenSource, Inc.. Check out the Open Solaris Xen Community project for more details.

Last but not least, Sun also announced Solaris ZFS ("zettabyte file system"), a.k.a. "The Most Advanced File System on the Planet" (of course), designed "to meet the emerging needs of a general-purpose file system spanning the desktop to the data center." Here's the OpenSolaris ZFS community, for more details.

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