HP signs deal with Sun to sell ProLiant servers with Solaris

HP will be selling Sun’s Solaris 10 operating system with its blade systems and ProLiant servers.

It is the first time that the hardware maker, under a multi-year deal, endorsed Sun’s operating system which is rival to its own HP-UX Unix implementation. The terms of agreement, which exclude HP’s Integrity servers, make Sun a strategic partner in HP ProLiant OS distribution, as stated by both the companies.

HP’s participation will also increase in the OpenSolaris community for interoperability and feature development.

John Fowler, executive vice president for systems at Sun, commented that deal with HP will dramatically expand market for Solaris on x86 servers.

The deal has made Solaris a ‘peer’ to Microsoft Windows among HP’s partners, wrote Sun’s chief executive and president, Jonathan Schwartz, on his blog. He declared that deal was meant for increasing market for Solaris.

Schwartz further added, Sun was announcing biggest and most important distribution/OEM deal ever signed for open source Solaris – and will join forces with Hewlett-Packard, the world’s biggest supplier of high-volume servers

The announcement follows release of worldwide server revenue figures by research firm IDC a day earlier. It revealed 14.1% fall in Sun’s revenue from servers in the quarter and 8.4% decline for whole of 2008.

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