Solaris is a proprietary Unix operating system originally developed by Sun Microsystems. It superseded the company’s earlier SunOS in 1993. In 2010, after the Sun acquisition by Oracle, it was renamed Oracle Solaris.

What is Solaris OS based on?

Solaris is an operating system based on Unix developed in 1992 by Sun Microsystems. In 2009, Oracle Corporation came to an arrangement to buy Sun Microsystems, owning Solaris and Sun’s Java with it. The first Sun’s operating system was born in 1983 and its name was SunOS.

What is difference between Unix Solaris?

UNIX is an Operating System (OS) and Solaris is an Operating System based on UNIX (a commercial variant of UNIX). … Solaris is licensed to use the UNIX trademark. Solaris contains features like DTRace and the ZFS file system that is not present in other UNIX implementations.