The server and software company said Thursday in the United States that it will integrate PostgreSQL into its Solaris operating system, and will begin offering support services to business customers running the software.
At a press conference here, company executives said Sun engineers will participate in the PostreSQL open-source project to tune the database for Solaris and beef up its high-end capabilities.
John Loiacono, Sun's executive vice president of software, said Sun will seek to integrate the Postgres database capabilities with Sun's operating system and its management system.
"We're going to take (the database) and do tighter integration with Solaris and support it on a worldwide basis," Loiacono said. The company expects to offer database-related services by next month.
As previously reported, Sun also said that it is releasing its 128-bit file systems, Solaris ZFS, into the OpenSolaris open-source project. The software will be available next month to developers and fully integrated into "update one" of Solaris in the first half of next year, executives said.
In addition, Sun will add the Xen virtualisation software into OpenSolaris and make it available with next year's update.
Sun also said it intends to add a feature called Solaris Containers for Linux applications into OpenSolaris by the end of the year. The software allows RedHat Linux applications to run on OpenSolaris.
Sun's decision to back Postgres ends months of speculation. Top company executives earlier this year voiced plans to offer services for an open-source database without specifying one product.
