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Essay on Sun Microsystems & their use of open source
A leader in the open source community, Sun will add this project's half million lines of code to its total of more than 8 million lines of code already contributed to open source efforts. Sun is coordinating this worldwide project with CollabNet, a leading provider of collaborative software development solutions based on open source concepts. Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision "The Network Is The Computer(TM)" has propelled Sun Microsystems to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that power the Internet and allow companies worldwide to ".com" their businesses. With $14.2 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 170 countries.
Sun is trying to ally itself with the open-source programming movement as part of a strategy to turn around its ailing fortunes. The company's revenue and stock price have remained largely flat in recent years despite a recovery in Sun's core market, powerful server computers at the heart of corporate networks. Unlike competitors, Sun is actually contributing real code to the open source community. Open source software development is a core part of Sun's strategy. It's a model that has value for both Sun and for developers. And with SunSource.net, developers now have one focused resource through which to directly engage Sun in conversations regarding all our open source projects."
SunSource.net is a one-stop access point for developers, featuring links to all of Sun's free and open source projects, including Sun-sponsored projects (Netbeans.org, OpenOffice.org, Jxta.org, Brazil, and Java Reliable Multicast Service[tm]) and community projects Sun is contributing to or sponsoring (Apache-based projects, such as Ant, Batik, Crimson, Struts and Tomcat; and other projects, such as GNOME, Mozilla[tm] , TI-RPC for NFSv4, NFS v4 on Linux, Solaris[tm] X Internationalization Framework). Developers also have access to mailing lists to begin conversations with developers inside Sun and also with members throughout the global open source community regarding Sun's policies and involvement with open source and about open source in general. (Colin C. Haley)....
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