System managers are under constant pressure to do more with the resources they already have and to rationalize and consolidate. The products available today to integrate the Solaris and PC environments greatly help achieve these objectives. The Sun PCi coprocessor card effectively co- locates a powerful PC within the Sun system hardware, allowing it to take advantage of the Solaris system resources and eliminating the need for two separate systems on the desktop. Solaris PC Netlink delivers sufficient Windows NT integration to replace NT servers completely with significantly fewer Solaris systems, thanks to the reliability and scalability that the Sun platform is renowned for. Interoperability between UNIX and PC environments has been high on the Sun Microsystems agenda for several years . The StarOffice productivity suite of software is now considered to be a serious rival to the traditional Microsoft Windows environment. |
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