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Sun Steps Back from Linux JDS

Posted by timothy on from the crowded-house dept.

chill writes "ZD Net UK is reporting that Sun is pulling back from their JDS desktop Linux initiative. The big question is what happened to those half-million to million-plus units that were supposed to ship in China in 2004? One hint may be that in April, Novell announced a deal with CSSC to 'cooperate to provide technology, services and marketing to optimise and promote Linux to the Chinese market.' Sun's JDS was based on SUSE Linux, now owned by Novell."

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  1. What happened to those units by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    One hour later, they were hungry for Windows again.

  2. Now we know what Microsoft's $2 billion bought. by team99parody · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is what the highly hyped partnership is all about

  3. I own SUN stock... by Captain+BooBoo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why wasn't I told about this? I swear if I lose another grand from this SUN company I am going to sell. O.o