Sun's CEO is happy to find that Google chose Java and Linux. The perfect match?
[Sun CEO:] Congratulations Google, Red Hat and the Java Community!
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| I just wanted to add my voice to the chorus of others from Sun in offering my
| heartfelt congraluations to Google on the announcement of their new
| Java/Linux phone platform, Android. Congratulations!
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http://biz.yahoo.com/sunblog/071105/congratulations_google_id.html?.v=1
Palm: assimilate with Android or die
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| Getting their apps and services on the largely crappy, disparate mobile
| platforms that exist today has proven to be a huge pain; rich mobile
| application standards are scarce in the wireless software world, and Google's
| business is in serving information anytime, anywhere, on any device. It's
| easy for Google to guarantee their services will work on just about any
| computer purchased in the last decade, but the same is totally untrue of
| cellphones -- so they set out to change that, and it seems as though they
| will do just that. So yeah, a mobile play it's really a no-branier.
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http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/palm-assimilate-with-android-or-die/
Sun Microsystems posts 1Q profit
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| Sun Microsystems Inc. swung to a first-quarter profit that matched Wall
| Street's expectations Monday, marking the server and software maker's first
| full year in the black since the dot-com meltdown.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071105/ap_on_hi_te/earns_sun_microsystems
Free software returns.
Related:
Sun: Open source Niagara 'successful'
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| The success Sun Microsystems has seen from publishing the hardware designs of
| its Niagara processor is pushing the server and software company to continue
| its open source chip initiative, and release the source codes of its
| latest "Niagara 2" processor.
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/hardware/0,39042972,62030524,00.htm
Scott McNealy's five reasons that free, open source software is good for Sun
and our customers
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| # Free means low barrier to entry.
| # Open source as a research and development multiplier.
| # Security.
| # Partnering and proliferation of our technology.
| # Low barriers to exit.
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http://blogs.sun.com/jimlaurent/entry/scott_mcnealy_s_five_reasons
Open Source -- Then and Now: A Conversation With Ray Gans of the OpenJDK
Community Program
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| Few have been closer to the day-to-day processes involved in open sourcing
| the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) than Ray Gans, a manager at Sun
| Microsystems with a long history of working with Java compatibility programs.
| He currently manages the OpenJDK and Mobile & Embedded community programs,
| where he works to improve the collaboration between Sun and the open-source
| Java developer community. We met with him to gain a better understanding of
| how the open sourcing of the Java SE platform is going and where it is
| headed.
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http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Interviews/gans_qa.html
Sun CEO: "Proprietary"...did more damage to sun than any market downturn
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| Sun has discovered the exact same thing. Freedom sells. Or, rather,
| services around freedom sell. The freedom itself is, well, free.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/04/sun_ceo_proprie.html
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