Looking to make its Solaris Unix OS more palatable to Linux users, Sun Microsystems has an effort under way called Project Indiana that aims to make Solaris more like Linux in some respects.“It’s taking Solaris and making it more familiar to the Linux community and Linux users,” said Marc Hamilton, Sun vice president of Solaris Marketing, at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco on Wednesday. In talking to Linux users, Sun has found they have had concerns about Solaris such as it having a different install procedure than Linux and commands in unfamiliar places, Hamilton said. Sun plans to make changes to Solaris to placate Linux users, with these changes first to appear in OpenSolaris, the open source variant of the OS. Also, Sun plans to make sure Solaris functions with applications familiar to Linux users, such as the AMP stack, which features the Apache Web server, MySQL database and the Perl, PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) and Python scripting languages. This combination of technologies usually is linked with Linux in the so-called LAMP stack. Some of these technologies already function with Solaris, Hamilton said. Software Development