Sun has made Solaris 9 binary downloads available.Link

The Solaris Security Toolkit (JASS) release (0.3.6) which
was released in parallel with the above BluePrint contains
the drivers referred to in the article.
The other notable new feature in this version of SST/JASS is
support for the recently released Solaris 9 by utilizing new
security features, including new profiles, updated finish
scripts, and a variety of other enhancements needed to fully
secure s9.Link

With the release of SunCluster 5/02 (sc3.0u3) it is possible
to deploy just about every Sun Cluster 3.0 agent in a
_supported_ and hardened configuration on Solaris 8.Link

InfoWorld has a favorable review of Solaris 9.Link

Sun will be stopping free downloads of StarOffice 5.2 at
midnight on Wednesday May 29th. Remember that OpenOffice
(at www.openoffice.org) is still a free download.Link

pkg-get, by Philip Brown, is a great interface/front-end to
the hundreds of precompiled software packages available from John
Christensen’s SunFreeWare site and its mirrors.Link

On this page, Sun appears to be offering a version of Solaris 9
for x86 on DVD-ROM. UPDATE: The page has been corrected to show
choices of either Solaris 9/SPARC or Solaris 8/Intel, and since
then, the offer has been discontinued.Link

On May 22nd, Sun Microsystems introduced the Solaris[tm] 9
Operating Environment. With the integration of an
application server, and by providing the foundation for
identity management, Sun redefines the operating system as a
services platform. The Solaris 9 OE delivers the security,
manageability and performance that enterprises need to
increase service levels and decrease costs and risks.Link

Sun has apparently changed their Free Solaris licensing
program. Solaris used to be free for noncommercial use on any
system with less than eight CPUs; it appears that it is now only
free for noncommercial use on systems with ONE processor. I guess
Sun doesent think that people might own multi-CPU systems at home.
Feel free to send me your comments or thoughts – I’ll start posting
a “reader review” section on both Solaris 9 and the new licensing
scheme for home/nonprofit use.
Link

This InfoWorld article details the upcoming Sun ONE Studio 7
Compiler Collection. This is an updated version of the Forte
developer tools based around command-line compilers and utilities
(no IDE), optimized for Solaris 9, and costing $995. A version with
an integrated IDE will be released next month for around $2000.Link

Sun is dropping Sawfish in order to go with the Metacity
window manager for its forthcoming GNOME 2.0 release.Link

According to this article at The Inquirer, Sun will be using
AMD’s K8/Opteron 64-bit CPUs in an upcoming line of Cobalt-branded
servers running Linux.Link

Sun has released StarOffice 6.0. It will retail for $75.95,
or $50-per-user under enterprise licenses.Link

According to this NEWS.COM article, Sun is working to
add features of Linux to Solaris, and vice-versa.Link

Sun has announced the Cobalt Raq 550 server appliance,
running Linux on Intel processors.Link