Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL – News) and Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW – News) today announced that Oracle has chosen the Solaris(TM) 10 Operating System (OS), Sun’s multi-platform, open source OS, as its preferred development and deployment platform for most x64 architectures, including x64 (x86, 64-bit) AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon processor-based systems and Sun’s UltraSPARC®-based systems. The Solaris 10 OS will be used throughout Oracle’s development organization. Oracle also plans to release and ship 64- bit versions of all Oracle products on the Solaris OS prior to or simultaneous with the release of its products on other operating systems.
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