Solaris Features - from Solaris 7 to 10

The Solaris Operating System has evolved significantly since Solaris 7 was released almost 10 years ago. There's a nice page on Sun's web site that has a matrix of Solaris Release by Feature Category. The listed categories are:

• Data Management
• Install/Upgrade
• Networking/Interoperability
• Observability
• Performance
• Platform Choice
• Security
• Usability
• Virtualization

Dennis Clarke, from blastwave.org, told me recently that many of the pre-compiled FOSS packages downloaded and installed from blastwave.org are still for Solaris 8 and 9.

For those organizations that have not upgraded to Solaris 10, have a look at the matrix to see how much you are missing.