At a Glance
Sun's commitment to Free and Open Source Software
Build software as a foundation.
Grow developer and customer communities.
Improve product quality for enterprise solutions.
Developers: Innovate & Influence
The open source model offers an entirely new way for developers and increasingly knowledgeable,
interactive users to collaborate and build upon the best of the commons. The result: open source is
reaping tremendous leaps in innovation, and standards-based, interoperable solutions.
Open Source for Developers
Enterprises: Cutting Edge Innovation
Successful businesses are built on innovative
software, freedom of choice, and security. Open
source software offers all that. And so much more.
Open Source for Enterprises
Driven by Open Source
Sun has some great offerings influenced by Free and Open Source innovation, including:
- Solaris OS and
OpenSolaris OS - free enterprise-class OS offerings, driven by the OpenSolaris community
- Linux from Sun - leading, branded GNU/Linux operating systems
- StarOffice - the full-featured office productivity suite alternative
- NetBeans - an open source developer tools platform and IDE
- OpenSPARC - Open source project based on the 64-bit, multithreaded UltraSPARC T1 processor
- Java - Sun's implementations of the Java specifications are all based on Free and Open Source code.
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Spotlight
Sun xVM VirtualBox
Software is available to run on a more of host platforms than any other
virtualization platform.
MySQL
Sun completes the acquisition of the world's most popular open source database.
Patron of the FSF
Sun Microsystems announces at FOSDEM in Brussels that it has become a Patron of the Free Software Foundation.
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Java
Sun's Java platform implementations and Free Software unite. |
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