Sun Opens Up Enterprise Software

abscondment writes "Stating that "open source is the future" of the software industry, Sun's President and COO Jonathan Schwartz announced that Sun will be opening its enterprise software in a manner similar to Solaris 10. Sun is opening up the Java Enterprise System, Sun N1 Management software, and Sun developer tools, etc. - practically everything except Java - hoping to lure more developers and chief executive officers worldwide to use and deploy its enterprise software."

Comments

Their hardwarre's getting better

[EvilMagnus]

The new x4100 servers look pretty sweet - dual core, dual proc Opteron 252 in a 1U low-power chassis. And N1 will work with RHEL as well, so long as it's on Sun hardware. It lets you do complete bare-metal installs from the OS up over the network and remote firmware patches, as well as the usual centralized patching and management. If you have to manage a bunch of similar machines, that's pretty nifty.

Free as in "freedom" "beer" or "strings attached?"

[mikaelhg]

See the license for the new offering:

4. Your Service Provider Use is limited to a ratio of two hundred non-Employees for each Employee (200:1) accessing the Software.

If only someone from Sun would clarify the language, we'd know they're not pulling a MySQL on us.

Java's Source Code is Downloadable

[jonathanbearak]

Java's source code is available for free. See http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/source_license.html .

"I want some software (security stuff) to stay closed-source forever"

The source isn't closed. It's not Free Software, but you can see it. I guess now this means you shouldn't use Java, seeing as all those evil hackers are gonna be rummaging through it.

And if you hadn't recalled, there already was a Java runtime from Microsoft. Wasn't compatible with Sun's Java. Doesn't exist anymore. Trademarks are sweet.

Re:You sir are a true genius

[aled]

That's FUD. You can read the source of Java anytime. You can compile it and colaborate on the new versión (6.0). You can't distribute AFAIK. There is no obscurity, all is there.