Google testing Sun’s OpenSolaris, sources say, from digg.

Google is experimenting with the open-source version of Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Solaris operating system as a possible long-term prelude to replacing its massive global network of Linux servers, according to sources.

With dozens of data centers worldwide estimated to house hundreds of thousands of Intel servers, this would be huge for Solaris.

Google runs a stripped-down version of Red Hat Linux specially modified by its engineers. But another source, a Solaris systems administrator who recently interviewed for a job at Google, said he was told the company plans to create and test its own modified version of OpenSolaris.

Google officials declined to comment.

Dtrace http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTrace
Zones http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_Containers
ZFS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS

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