OPEN SOURCE: Sun shifting to Free and Open Source Software

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Some figures about SUN:

  • 4.5 million Java developpers

  • OpenSolaris community of 10’000 members

  • 196 million downloads of Java

  • 53 million downloads of StarOffice and OpenOffice

  • 1 billion Java mobiles

Java Enterprise System

First, having seen tremendous momentum with the Solaris Operating System (OS) as free and open source software, Sun is making the Java Enterprise System, Sun N1 Management software, and Sun developer tools available at no cost for both development and deployment and further, is reaffirming its commitment to open source this software. Second, Sun is announcing that it is integrating all of this software along with the Solaris OS into the Solaris Enterprise System, the only comprehensive and open infrastructure software platform available today.

Included at no cost in the new Solaris Enterprise System are:

  • The award winning and open sourced Solaris 10 OS, with the recently announced PostgreSQL database;

  • The entire Sun Java Enterprise System infrastructure software platform, including the Sun Java Identity Management Suite, Sun Java Integration Suite, Sun Java Communications Suite, Sun Java Application Platform Suite, Sun Java Availability Suite and Sun Java Web Infrastructure Suite;

  • The N1 Management Software including the Sun N1 System Manager, the Sun N1 Service Provisioning System, the Sun N1 Grid Engine;

  • All tools for C, C++ and Java development, including Sun Studio 11, Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8 and Sun Java Studio Creator;

  • SunRay ultra-thin client software;

  • Sun Secure Global Desktop Software.

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