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Open source cuts across Sun’s growth strategy
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The open source route has generated more money for Sun Microsystems than before, says its open source chief, and staying on this path will be central to the company’s growth strategy.
Sun made more money from Solaris today than it did four years ago after it moved the server platform to an open source [...]
Sun Enhancements to OpenSolaris Take Aim at Linux
Sun Microsystems’ OpenSolaris 2008.11 includes improvements around software package management and incorporating community packaging efforts. The updates to the free Solaris-based OS shows that Sun will not follow IBM and HP in letting Linux take over the platform space once dominated by Unix.
OpenSolaris 2008.11, the second major release of Sun Microsystems’ freely-licensed, Solaris-based operating system, [...]