Open Java, Open Standards
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| Sun Microsystems has always been slow to change Java. For years, developers
| howled for generics and annotations, and only in the past three years did
| these features arrive. So too, had open source zealots been screaming for Sun
| to make Java into an open standard backed by open source. And finally, in
| 2007, almost 12 years after the creation of the language, Sun released the
| language's development kit and runtime environment under GPLv2.
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http://www.sdtimes.com/article/story-20071215-14.html
Sun's Game: Friends Close, Microsoft Closer
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| Sun is increasingly moving toward a more cooperative competitive environment.
| Sun, before Schwartz, was extremely hostile toward its competitors. The two
| biggest sore spots, IBM and Microsoft, have been successfully turned into
| allies. Well, at least partners who compete. Sun is keeping its enemies, as
| well as its friends, close at hand.
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http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/nethub/article.php/3718476
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Sun Opens Up UltraSPARC T2 Core
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| Sun Microsystems is expanding its open source program around its SPARC
| processors with the announcement Tuesday that it would provide the OpenSPARC
| T2 RTL (register transfer level) processor design to the open source
| community under the GPL license.
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http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3715726
Sun Microsystems offers incentives for open source developers
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| Sun Microsystems today unveiled a program that offers prize money as
| incentives for open source developers to come up with new technologies that
| Sun can put to use.
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http://www.betanews.com/article/Sun_Microsystems_offers_incentives_for_open_source_developers/1196895251
Sun CEO: "Proprietary"...did more damage to sun than any market downturn
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| Sun has discovered the exact same thing. Freedom sells. Or, rather,
| services around freedom sell. The freedom itself is, well, free.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/04/sun_ceo_proprie.html
McNealy says Sun evaluating OpenSolaris on GPL
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| There have been nearly 8 million downloads of Solaris in the last
| two years, and there are 900 systems certified to run Solaris,
| which is more than any Linux distribution, McNealy said.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070509/tc_infoworld/88402
Sun hopes for Linux-like Solaris
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| Basic operations, such as the "ls" command to see a listing of
| files in a directory, behave differently in Solaris, and Solaris
| lacks Linux tools for packaging, downloading and installing
| software such as Debian's apt-get, Murdock said. And Linux's
| installation process is much better than that of Solaris, in
| part because of better hardware support, he said.
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62011784,00.htm
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