Solaris 11 / SPARC News

Here is a good summary of a recent online forum, "Solaris 11: What's new since launch?"

Solaris 11 Update 1 (late this year)

• Updated Virtual memory subsystem
This is probably what has been known as vm 2.0 earlier
•  Faster Solaris 11 updates with improved python performance 
•  Already running on the upcoming T5/M4 SPARC(R) chips
• VNIC configuration switch hosts with their zones

There are also hints on what future Solaris 11/hardware updates might bring

• Hotpatching similar to KSplice (Remember DUKS in Solaris 8?)
• Offloading of compression and Oracle arithmetics to CPU besides crypto
• Schedulers for DB or JVM workloads

Summary: What's new with Solaris 11 since the launch?