Sun Announces Linux Deal With Chinese Government

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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$50,000,000

[Leroy_Brown242]

Fifty Million Dollars

Congrats Sun.

Falun-Gong

[Anonymous Coward]

So now all the open-sores advocates will be fawning over the fucking chinks, despite the fact that they have arrested and tortured tens of thousands of followers of Falun Gong/Falun Dafa without any reason other than their faith.

But hey, they love open-sores, so they must be good, right?

Re:Linux or Java?

[1lus10n]

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.