Specifications

Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Oracle Solaris Porting Guide
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GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) and other GNU tools are also available on both RHEL and Oracle
Solaris 11.
Availability of Open Source Software on the Oracle Solaris Platform
Most of the popular open source software is either already available on Oracle Solaris 11, or the ported
binaries as well as source code are made available through various popular open source repositories,
such as http://www.sunfreeware.com/, http://www.blastwave.org/, http://www.sourceforge.net
,
http://www.solaris4you.dk/, http://www.unixpackages.com/, and many more.
Advantages of Porting to Oracle Solaris 11
There are many advantages moving to Oracle Solaris 11.
Figure 1-2. Oracle Solaris is part of Oracle’s integrated hardware and software stack in which the components are
optimized to work together to enhance performance, availability, and security.
The following list highlights some of the key capabilities of Oracle Solaris 11 that can make a big
difference, particularly in demanding environment for large enterprise-wide deployments.
• Complete integrated stack (hardware to applications) optimized to work together
• Portability across architectures (SPARC, X64)
• Standards compliance
• Tools optimized to work best on the integrated stack
• Support for a wide range of hardware
• Infrastructure designed to scale on large systems without touching code
• Investments in new-feature development and technology advancements (R&D spends)