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Sun Announces Linux Deal With Chinese Government

Posted by simoniker on from the one-million-users dept.

Infonaut writes "Scott McNealy announced today at Comdex that Sun Microsystems has made a deal with China for a million desktop Linux deployments under the new $50/seat licensing plan for Sun's desktop software, which includes its Star Office 7.0 productivity program. Whether this will translate into renewed profits for Sun remains to be seen, but according to McNealy, it represents 'the No. 1 Linux desktop play on the planet'."

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  1. $50,000,000 by Leroy_Brown242 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Fifty Million Dollars

    Congrats Sun.

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  2. Re:Linux or Java? by 1lus10n · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Well Staroffice and the JVM/JRE integration is key. blackdown is crap compared to the performance of Suns JRE's.

    but support is the big thing. Mandrake offers nothing even close in support terms to what sun can offer. The only Company that could compete with what Sun can offer is IBM. and IBM is not backing mandrake. at this point this decision is going to come down to redhat vs SuSe. and it seems like everyone is siding with SuSe right now.

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