Only a few days ago, Transitive Corporation announced the release of QuickTransit for the Solaris operating system on SPARC to Solaris on x86/64 systems. If you aren't familiar with Transitive or their products, you might be surprised. The Transitive technology is the basis of the Rosetta software built into all of Apple's x86-based Macintosh computers, and it also forms the basis of IBM PowerVM Lx86, which is a Only a few days ago, Transitive Corporation announced the release of QuickTransit for the Solaris operating system on SPARC to Solaris on x86/64 systems. If you aren’t familiar with Transitive or their products, you might be surprised. The Transitive technology is the basis of the Rosetta software built into all of Apple’s x86-based Macintosh computers, and it also forms the basis of IBM PowerVM Lx86, which is available for IBM’s System p range of enterprise servers. The company has also recently achieved a notable milestone – they have now shipped their products in more than 10 million computer systems worldwide. And their momentum is just beginning having signed distribution agreements with HP, Fujitsu and Red Hat.So how does it work? The company’s QuickTransit hardware virtualization technology allows applications that have been compiled for one operating system and processor type to run on servers that use a different processor and operating system, without requiring any source code or binary changes. Sounds like magic? Try virtualization. Yet another member of the virtualization community that sounds like magic to the rest of the IT world, but for those of us who have embraced virtualization, it’s just another day at the office with the chance to work with cool technology. According to the company, this latest version of QuickTransit offers a solution to enterprise customers that have deployed the Solaris OS on x86 operating systems as it allows them to immediately run many thousands of additional applications. Customers that have opted to deploy the Solaris OS on x86 hardware platforms from Sun, IBM, HP, Dell and others can deploy QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Solaris/x86-64 to immediately start using a large range of Solaris SPARC-based applications that have been developed by independent software vendors (ISVs), open source developers and internal application development teams.“The release of QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Solaris/x86-64 is another important milestone for Transitive and occurs at a time of accelerated momentum in cross-platform virtualization,” said Bob Wiederhold, president and CEO of Transitive. “This release is also timely because of the increasing interest in the Solaris OS on x86 among enterprise datacenter managers seeking robust and reliable operating system options.” The company offers three configurations of its QuickTransit enterprise product line: QuickTransit Workstation – for use on desktop and laptop PCs QuickTransit Server – for large-scale datacenter consolidation projects QuickTransit Legacy – a specialized version intended for application re-hosting from extremely old legacy hardware running operating system versions that are no longer supported.Evaluation versions of QuickTransit can be downloaded from the Transitive Web site. Software Development