From: koberoi on
We are pleased to announce the availability of Oracle Solaris Studio
Express 6/10, which can be freely downloaded here:

http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/downloads/express/

Sun Studio Express has be renamed Oracle Solaris Studio Express.
Supporting both Solaris 10 (SPARC, x86) and Linux distributions (OEL
5, RHEL 5, SuSE 11), Oracle Solaris Studio Express 6/10 will be made
available on OpenSolaris in the near future. Downloads included both
the package installer (SVR4, RPM) and non-package tarballs.

Highlights include the following:

* C/C++/Fortran compiler optimizations for the latest UltraSPARC
and SPARC64-based architectures such as UltraSPARC T2 and SPARC64 VII
* C/C++/Fortran compiler optimizations for the latest x86
architectures including Intel® Xeon® 7500 processor series (Nehalem-
EX) and 5600 processor series (Westmere-EP)
* Enhanced debugging and code coverage tooling
* Improved application profiling with the Performance Analyzer
* Updated IDE based on NetBeans 6.8

Please provide feedback via the Customer Feedback program, where you
can file bugs/rfes, make your voice heard via a short survey, and
discuss the product in the Studio forums:

http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/customerfeedback/

Thanks!

/kso