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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 [...]
Open Source Vendors welcome new UK Government policy, but want more action
Simon Phipps, Chief Open Source Officer at Sun Microsystems was the first person The H called. He was pleased to see the updated policy, “It’s a great thing to see it published, as the 2004 policy didn’t help very much”. The new policy had “a lot of good things in it” such as the costing [...]