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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. Not surprising at all by malikvlc · · Score: 0, Troll

    Not when you consider Sun's maligning attitude towards all things purely Open (see Java, CDDL, etc). We've all seen the warnings against swimming in the JDS waters for ages now.

    Maybe Sun and Microsoft have made a pledge to just be honest with us from now on? Maybe they've abandonned they're FUDdy ways? Maybe.

    More likely that Sun realised they could not tread open source waters and eat their cake too.

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