Sun to offer new Solaris as &#39;open-source&#39; software
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It cost Sun Microsystems $5 billion to develop Solaris, a powerful computer operating system used by governments and giant corporations worldwide.
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Hoping to attract developers and customers, Sun Microsystems will announce its next-generating operating system will be offered for free. The company spent roughly $500 million and years of development time on the software.
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Sun Microsystems formally launched its Solaris 10 operating-system upgrade on Monday as a free, more advanced, multiplatform OS alternative to Red Hat Linux, with backing from new partners such as eGenera and SAP.
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Ziff Davis - The company will launch an OpenSolaris site on Friday, but an open-source version of Sun's operating system is still a long way off.
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Like Linux code but better - grr By the end of this month Sun Microsystems will release the first developer version of OpenSolaris in its "Project Indiana" incarnation.â¦
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InfoWorld - Sun plans to announce on Monday that it will provide support for the OpenOffice.org productivity software suite, citing a wave of momentum behind the open-source project.
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Sun Microsystems is going to unveil its newest version of Solaris operating system. In. Sun Microsystems is going to unveil its newest version of Solaris operating system.
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The Japanese government has approved Sun Microsystems&#39; open-source desktop software for use within one of its ministries, Sun is expected to announce.
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By releasing the code for its new Niagara 2 processor into the open source community today, Sun is paving the way for its underlying architecture to eventually pop up in wireless and other embedded systems, and maybe even in future game consoles.
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Sun Microsystems has quietly begun seeking official open-source status for a new software license that likely will be used to govern its Solaris operating system.
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California-based Sun Microsystems Inc. released its Unix-based operating system Solaris 10 for free Monday, Web Host Industry Review Magazine reports.
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Ziff Davis - Sun's plans to offer Solaris code to the open-source community leaves some analysts scratching their heads.
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Sun plans to release most of the OS code to an open-source community development process. The company also promises a Red Hat Linux execution environment (the Janus project) by 1Q05.
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Offering its new Unix-based Solaris 10 operating system for free &quot;is a critical development for Sun,&quot; says Yankee Group analyst Dana Gardner.
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Sun Microsystems will create an open-source project around its Solaris 10 operating system by the end of the year, company executives said on Monday.
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Targets Linux developers with gateway IDE Sun Microsystems today releases Sun Studio 12, its latest IDE (integrated development environment) for C, C++ and Fortran. It's freely available for Solaris and Linux software platforms and the update will be useful for developers building multi-core and multi-threaded applications, the company says.â¦
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Sun Microsystems Inc.  is  revamping its Solaris operating system, incorporating key  pieces of rival Linux software in a move that could gain better  support from developers who have massed behind Linux.