Solaris 10 operating system won creative awards

Solaris 10 operating system of Sun Microsystems applied Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) technology, was awarded the leading creative award by Wall Street Journal.

Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) technology, a key element in the free open source Solaris 10 operating system, was chosen to award thanks to a breakthrough real-time approach to failure diagnosis systems. Reduces time to identify problems from days, weeks to hours, even minutes and real-world application performance increases by more than 30 times.

Since the introduction of Solaris 10 in January 2005, Sun has granted more than 5 million copyright licenses - more than the total number of competing companies' licenses in the same period. Solaris 10 operating system is supported on more than 700 systems of many suppliers such as Sun, HP, IBM and Dell.

Meanwhile, Sun's UltraSPARC T1 Niagara processor is ranked second in the field of " energy and power creation ". UltraSPARC T1 is the first open source processor architecture specifically designed for large-scale Web 2.0 infrastructure that delivers outstanding performance and unmatched energy and space savings. The combination of DTrace technology and the multi-threaded feature in the UltraSPARC T1 processor are considered the core technologies that Sun provides for free to promote Web 2.0 architecture.