Sun Announces Support for PostgreSQL

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday November 17, 2005 @09:54PM from the open-for-business dept.

jadavis writes "Sun announces 24x7 support for PostgreSQL on Solaris 10. From the article: 'Today Sun announced that it will be integrating the Postgres open source data base into the Solaris 10 OS and providing world-wide 24x7 support for customers who wish to develop and deploy open source database solutions into their enterprise environments. Sun is working with the PostgresSQL community to take advantage of the advanced technologies in the Solaris 10 OS, such as Predictive Self-Healing, Solaris Containers and Solaris Dynamic Tracing (DTrace).'"

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Re:Solaris worth trying for a redhat based system? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-11-18 01:54 · Score: 0, Troll

The easiest way to install s/w on Solaris/OpenSolaris is using blastwave (www.blastwave.org) - for example, installing the entire KDE stack is done by :-

pkg-get -i kde

Simple enough? :-)