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Solaris
An Unix-based operating system that was developed for the SPARC platform, since 2010, belongs together with Oracle's Sun assets. Despite the fact that Solaris is an operating system with closed source code, most of it is open and published in the OpenSolaris project.
| First released | 1990s |
| Developed by | Sun Microsystems |
| Latest stable version | Solaris 11 |
| Open-source | No |
| Used by | Oracle, Spring Cloud, Google |
