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Saturday, September 27. 2008

Sometimes you find Opensolaris at places where you won´t expect it: How the FAA Is Bringing Its Air Traffic Systems into the 21st Century. It´s an interesting article about the upcoming flight plan distribution system of the FAA.

Sun's open-source OpenSolaris/ZFS/SunFire server/Thumper storage infrastructure—which features built-in, state-of-the-art virtualization capability—was a key building block on which the FAA IT evaluation group settled. Some of the new software is already being used in the air traffic system; ZFS (Sun's open-source Zettabyte File System) is being used in the FAA's air traffic data center.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Solaris at 21:11 | Comments (3) | Trackback (1)

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Ehhh ... was not one big difference between Solaris and OpenSolaris that the first had professional support which the latter lacks ?

I would feel more comfortable, if they would use the supported version for air security ...

#1 Alex on 2008-09-28 13:18 (Reply)

You can buy support for OpenSolaris 2008.05 and following versions without any problems. You just can´t buy support for Opensolaris Community Edition.

And to speak in general: When commercially viable, custom aggreements may make even unsupported things supported

#1.1 Joerg+M. (Homepage) on 2008-09-28 13:32 (Reply)

Thx for the clarification

Seems like I have to read up on the different versions, again ^^

#2 Alex on 2008-09-28 16:19 (Reply)

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