SUN MICROSYSTEMS MAKES SUN GRID ENGINE SOFTWARE AVAILABLE TO OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITYSUN MICROSYSTEMS MAKES SUN GRID ENGINE SOFTWARE AVAILABLE TO OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITYSun Works with CollabNet to Continue its Strong Support of Open Computing and Encourage Adoption of Powerful Grid Computing Model
SAN DIEGO, CA -- O'REILLY OPEN SOURCE CONVENTION -- July 23, 2001 -- Reaffirming its commitment to the open source movement, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) announced today the Sun Grid Engine Project, an initiative to offer the source code for Sun Grid Engine software to users and the developer community. Sun Grid Engine software is an advanced distributed resource management (DRM) tool. It has been available as a free download at www.sun.com/software/gridware since its introduction in September 2000. 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, in making the code available for download at www.gridengine.sunsource.net. The project is designed to further remove the cost and implementation barriers associated with deploying DRM software in a compute farm. Additionally, both open source users and Sun Grid Engine software customers should benefit from this open source project through enhanced industry support. For example, service and support providers should be able to customize the powerful software for specific customer needs, and software developers should be able to reduce complexity for end users by creating applications that are tightly integrated with Sun Grid Engine software. Over time, the open source effort should facilitate the adoption of open standards for DRM software, facilitating interoperability with applications and easing integration. "As cluster computing scales up towards grid computing, tools like Sun Grid Engine software will become ubiquitous and essential," said Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of technology information firm O'Reilly & Associates. "Computing is moving towards the development of what you might call an Internet operating system. Sun recognizes that key components of that operating system shouldn't be controlled by any one company, and they're putting their money where their mouth is by releasing it as open source." "Sun will continue to deliver products that support our core philosophy that the network is the computer," said Robbie Turner, vice president of Client and Technical Market Products at Sun Microsystems. "Sun is encouraging the grid computing model via free downloads of Sun Grid Engine software--and now by making its code available to the open source community--because the productivity gains of the grid computing model will increasingly serve as a decisive factor in a business's ultimate success or failure." CollabNet is providing the Web infrastructure and comprehensive development platform that enables geographically dispersed groups of developers to collaborate on Grid Engine projects. Based on CollabNet's SourceCast environment, this platform includes tools for revision control, issue tracking, mailing list creation and management, and Web-based administration. This open source project follows on the heels of the successful OpenOffice.org initiative--also supported by CollabNet--which made available the source code for Sun's StarOffice software under the same industry-accepted Sun Industry Standards Source License. Full details of Sun's involvement with open source projects can be seen at www.sunsource.net. "The Grid Engine Project continues to demonstrate Sun's true leadership within the open source community," said Brian Behlendorf, co-founder and CTO of CollabNet. "CollabNet is delighted to be working with Sun on yet more compelling open source software. Sun's decision to open this previously proprietary software demonstrates its understanding of the technical community's fundamental need and interest in scalable DRM technology." Delivering Network-Wide Compute Power to the DesktopSun Grid Engine software was introduced in September 2000 as the first product resulting from Sun's acquisition of Gridware, formerly a privately-owned commercial vendor of advanced DRM software tools. Since then, the software has been downloaded nearly 8,000 times in more than 90 countries. A comprehensive web-based training course for installing and managing the software is also available at no cost at www.sun.com/software/gridware. By distributing Sun Grid Engine software as a free download and with all Sun systems, Sun is changing the economics of technical computing and breaking down the barriers of employing distributed computing. Sun Grid Engine software is designed to aggregate compute resources, match them to individual job requirements, and deliver network-wide compute power to the desktop. Through this horizontal scaling, Sun's powerful DRM tool manages an organization's compute resources and job distribution, which:
About CollabNetCollabNet provides companies with solutions for collaborative software development by combining a comprehensive Web-based environment and suite of consulting services. CollabNet develops collaborative networks that enable companies to share code within an enterprise, to give select customers and business partners access to code, or to open the code to the wider open source community. These solutions are designed to facilitate software development across globally disparate communities and enable corporations to reduce costs and increase revenues. CollabNet is currently working with customers ranging from hardware and software providers to companies from industries such as finance, wireless, and healthcare. Brian Behlendorf, co-founder of the Apache Software Foundation, established CollabNet in July 1999. For more information, see www.collab.net. About Sun Microsystems, Inc.Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW), to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that power the Internet and allow companies worldwide to take their businesses to the nth. With $18.3 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 170 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com.
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