Rayson was the first person on the SGE users list to notice this big announcement from Sun Microsystems.
The key bits from the release:
Included at no cost in the new Solaris Enterprise System are:
- The award winning and open sourced Solaris 10 OS, with the recently announced PostgreSQL database;
- The entire Sun Java Enterprise System infrastructure software platform, including the Sun Java Identity Management Suite, Sun Java Integration Suite, Sun Java Communications Suite, Sun Java Application Platform Suite, Sun Java Availability Suite and Sun Java Web Infrastructure Suite;
- The N1 Management Software including the Sun N1 System Manager, the Sun N1 Service Provisioning System, the Sun N1 Grid Engine;
- All tools for C, C++ and Java development, including Sun Studio 11, Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8 and Sun Java Studio Creator;
- SunRay ultra-thin client software;
- Sun Secure Global Desktop Software.
What does this mean for you?
The biggest change is that now people will have access to Grid Engine components that were previously only available to paying Sun N1 Grid customers. The biggest items include:
- The ARCO job and resource usage monitoring and reporting subsystem
- Windows Grid Engine exec host client code
If I had to summarize industry coverage it would be something like this from the Reuters article:
“…Although more of Sun’s software will now be free, customers will have to pay for service and support, which is how Sun aims to boost revenue.”
Other coverage:
- The Register: “Sun continues great software giveaway”
- Information Week: “Sun Says It’s Free: Java Enterprise System Now Available”
- Newsforge: “Sun furthers open source commitment”
- Reuters via Yahoo News: “Sun to bundle software, offer as free downloads”