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Sun Opens OpenSolaris.Org

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the good-faith-effort dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Sun has launched the first version of opensolaris.org, featuring a small initial drop of source code. The idea is to make a display of good faith to the Solaris community while the rest of the source code due diligence is completed. The source code for Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) is available for download under the terms of the newly OSI-approved CDDL license."

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  1. Now that's a concept by lphuberdeau · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sun really seems to like the Open-.org naming convention. They are probably trying to oppose Steve Jobs' iNaming.

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  2. Re:Thank you to the folks at Sun... by acg6764 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    On a personal level, I agree. On an investor level, your comment scares me a bit. Sun still makes up for a decent percentage of my tech portfolio. I would like to understand what Sun is hoping to achieve through this investment.

    They are continuing to face declining market shares. They could have used the money to build better hardware and marketing campaigns. They could have also provided enhancements to the existing Linux infrastructure to be better compatible with their hardware.

    Still, the geek in me is happy with Sun and I guess that's a start.

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