Nearly Half a Million!!!

Well Sun certainly has captured the interest of both the existing Solaris Community and hopefully some new converts with the FCS ship of Solaris 10! As of last night around 19:30 when I received the RSS feed, the stats for downloads of Solaris 10 were as follows, as extracted from a blog by Jonathan Schwartz:

**SPARC**: 151,039

**x64/x86**: 269,856

**Total**: **420,895**

Now that's a *truckload* of downloads of a *free* *quality* *mature* *supportable* *scalable* *dependable* operating environment (who else gives you all that?).

If you haven't downloaded Solaris 10 yet, what are you waiting for? Get downloading! Intel/AMD64/SPARC all supported! StarOffice (derived from OpenOffice) productivity suite included. And GCC!

And hardly forgetting the cutting edge diagnostic ability with DTrace, which provides unparalleled visibility of Kernel operation; and Solaris Containers (Zones) - create multiple running Solaris instances on a single PC or SPARC system!

And coming to a screen near you ( ;-) ) a revolutionary way of managing your Megabytes through Terabytes through to Zettabytes of your disk storage (if you are lucky enough to have either of the latter two ;-) ) with ZFS!

And OpenSolaris is gathering momentum by the day, and the number of participants on the Pilot is still increasing. Watch the Press closely for announcements!

The Solaris Revolution is only just beginning! Let the Good Times Roll!