Free and Open Source Software

Read Gartner's report "Open Source at Sun Microsystems, 2008" where Gartner discusses an increasing role for open source within business strategies in coming years.

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.

Spotlight

Open Source is Open for Business
Sun collaborates with open source partners to enable you to better run your business without additional hardware and licensing costs.
Open HA Cluster
Access and build complete and more complex open source clustering and disaster recovery solutions.
Sun xVM VirtualBox
Software is available to run on a more of host platforms than any other virtualization platform.
Sun Open Storage Solutions
Join the Open Storage Revolution - Find freedom from vendor lock-in with Sun Open Storage Solutions.
MySQL
Sun completes the acquisition of the world's most popular open source database.
$1m Open Source Community Innovation Awards
Multi-year Program Expected to Payout Millions to Foster Global Community-based Innovation.
Patron of the FSF
Sun Microsystems announces at FOSDEM in Brussels that it has become a Patron of the Free Software Foundation.


Java
Sun's Java platform implementations and Free Software unite.
$1M Community Innovation Awards
Sun Sponsors Open Source Community
Give your business a boost