Oracle Solaris
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Oracle Solaris, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Oracle Solaris's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Oracle Solaris 11.4 | Free | Free download of installation images and the full Oracle Solaris IPS repository |
The facts
Each one read from Oracle Solaris's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Backward compatibility
- Oracle says its Application Binary Guarantee supports running new and legacy applications on modern infrastructure.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Cloud management
- Oracle says Solaris 11 is compatible with modern cloud provisioning and change management tools.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Compliance
- Oracle Solaris provides one-step, multinode compliance reporting.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Download architectures
- Solaris 11.4 CBE downloads include SPARC and x86 images, a Text Installer, an AI Boot Image, and the IPS repository.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Intended use
- Oracle describes Solaris as a platform for enterprise-grade clouds and data centers.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Lifecycle management
- Integrated lifecycle management can update a cloud installation, including firmware and virtualized environments, with a single command.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Observability
- Solaris Observability tools provide real-time and historical insight for diagnosing system and application problems.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Oracle workloads
- Oracle says Solaris is suited to Oracle Database and Java applications, with enhancements across CPU, memory, file system, I/O, networking, and security.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Product
- Oracle Solaris is an enterprise operating system designed for compatibility, administration, security, and compliance.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Security
- Oracle describes antimalware protection from hypervisor to application, system and VM lockdown, and Silicon Secured Memory protections against common memory attacks.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- Oracle directs customers with active support contracts to My Oracle Support for knowledge base answers, community participation, and service requests.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Virtualization
- Oracle offers Solaris templates for VirtualBox, Oracle VM Server for SPARC, and a Solaris 10 zone running on Solaris 11 releases.checked 11 Oct 2026
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