Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Fri 9th Oct 2009 22:45 UTC
"Sun Microsystems announced the Solaris 10 10/09 Operating System. The Solaris 10 OS has been extended with new performance and power efficiency enhancements, more streamlined management of system installations, updates and fixes, new updates for Solaris ZFS and advancements to further leverage the functionality of the latest SPARC and x86 based systems. Solaris 10 10/09 provides new features, fixes and hardware support in an easy-to-install manner, preserving full compatibility with over 11,000 third-party products and customer applications, including Oracle database and application software."
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The biggest problem with compatibility is compiler and library implementation (glibc et al) pitfalls - or kernel specific stuff obviously. It always has been, even when POSIX compliance was supposedly all the rage in the 80s and 90s. We still got a ton of incompatible software then, which is why people talked about a 'fragmented' Unix world.
Still, things are a lot better now than they were then. The BSDs seem to have no trouble porting over a great deal of open source software that was probably originally written on a Linux based platform, but that's probably because they're largely using the GNU toolchain. Still, it shows that portability on a practical basis has definitely improved.
The only thing that Solaris/OpenSolaris seems to lack is the manpower to port more updated software.
Edited 2009-10-13 21:31 UTC