OpenSolaris Accepts Emulex

COSTA MESA, Calif. -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX) today announced its Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) driver is the first to be accepted and publicly available within the OpenSolaris(tm) project. The open source process provides a highly recognized assurance of quality and long-term support for leading technologies, such as innovative SAN connectivity solutions.

Sponsored by Sun Microsystems, the OpenSolaris project is an open source community and a place for collaboration and conversation around open source technologies. It is a nexus for community developments effort where developers can collaborate on designing and improving operating system technology.

"Emulex continues to work closely with Sun to lead the way in defining and implementing SAN connectivity for its open source environment,"said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing, Emulex Corporation. "We are committed to bringing technology advancements to the OpenSolaris community and Emulex's HBA driver for OpenSolaris provides enterprise scalability, maximum performance and superior quality and reliability."

Emulex Corp.