Sun Microsystems Inc’s SunSoft Inc has picked Tuesday June 23, the start of PC Expo in New York, as the day to announce that Solaris 2.0-for-Sparc will be delivered to OEM customers within the week. It looks as if it’s got a few tricks up its sleeve about Solaris-on-Intel as well: expect announcements of some OEM customers. Meanwhile the Solaris-for-Sparc promised to OEM customers is said to include System V.4, Open Network Computing+, OpenWindows 3.0 with Tool Talk, the desktop metaphor and Open Look interface and multi-processor support that the OEM customers will have to fine-tune to their machines. Meanwhile, the latest issue of RISC Management claims that the multi-threaded SMP capabilities that are the core of Solaris 2.0 will not appear until the fourth calendar quarter – in time for the first multi-processor Sparcstation shipments, but a year behind schedule.
