It looks like Sun Microsystems is gearing up to go after Linux as it announced a series of product and strategic updates to its Solaris 10 operating system due out this summer. The company is adding a number of new security and virtualization technologies to help push them further along within the x86 market. OpenSolaris, the company's open source version of their commercial OS, already includes Xen. Now, the co It looks like Sun Microsystems is gearing up to go after Linux as it announced a series of product and strategic updates to its Solaris 10 operating system due out this summer. The company is adding a number of new security and virtualization technologies to help push them further along within the x86 market.OpenSolaris, the company’s open source version of their commercial OS, already includes Xen. Now, the company plans to add clustering technology via the Xen hypervisor to its latest Solaris OS sometime in 2007.Other virtualization technology enhancements have also been made, such as Logical Domains and enhanced Solaris Containers. With Logical Domains, Sun has added a server virtualization and partitioning technology that will allow customers to enable up to 32 OS instances on each UltraSPARC T1-based system. Solaris Containers adds isolation for software applications and services to give each application their own private memory space within a single instance of Solaris. When combined with Sun’s high availability software, Solaris Cluster 3.2, the software can monitor the application in the container and then fail over when needed. The new Solaris support subscriptions are priced much lower than an equivalent offering from competitor Red Hat. And so, the company appears to be gearing up for quite a battle to grab at the x86 server market. Software Development