What is the current status of Solaris for x86 systems?
The Solaris OS has supported both x86 and SPARC systems since the mid 1990s, but support for x86 systems has shown major advances starting in the early 2000s, fueled by Sun acquisitions, the introduction of x86 systems into its own hardware product line, and alliances with AMD and Intel. Solaris 10 introduced support for 64-bit x86 systems (“x64” systems) and the Solaris Hardware Compatibility List Solaris Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) , available on the BigAdmin site, now lists hundreds of 32-bit and 64-bit x86 systems from a large number of vendors such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and of course Sun itself. Solaris support for peripheral hardware devices has also grown phenomenally; supported components are also listed in the HCL.
