Sun Makes Digital Archiving Free, Open With Code Donation of Fixed Content
Object Storage System
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| The latest effort in Sun's commitment to open source and open storage
| solutions, the Sun StorageTek 5800 (previously known as “Project Honeycomb")
| code has been donated to the OpenSolaris storage and Java.net communities.
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080227005465&newsLang=en
Sun and Ministry of Education for the People's Republic of China Announce
Landmark Agreement Based on Sun's OpenSPARC Technology
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| Sun Microsystems, Inc., (Nasdaq:JAVA) and the Ministry of Education (MOE) for
| the People's Republic of China today announced a three-year collaboration
| agreement designed to meet China's demand for cultivating integrated circuit
| (IC) engineering talent and industry development. The agreement is based on
| Sun's OpenSPARC(TM) program.
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http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/industries/technology/article/sun-ministry-education-peoples-republic-china-announce-landmark-agreement_496840_12.html
Also on OSS:
Central Coast Tech: How SLO’s Shopatron uses open source is focus of meeting
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| Open source software, which is based on source code open to users to rework
| as needed, is an option for companies wanting to develop custom software at a
| lower cost.
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http://www.sanluisobispo.com/business/story/287496.html
First Annual Open Source Commerce Survey Results
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| The results are in for the first annual Open Source Commerce (OSC) Survey and
| you may be surprised at the winners. This included both a "beauty contest"
| store design contest for store owners and Web professionals, and a serious
| opinion survey on what actual users consider to be the best of the industry.
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http://www.ecommerce-guide.com/resources/market_research/article.php/3729961
Related:
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| Sun Microsystems plans to release on Tuesday the underlying design of
| its UltraSparc T1 "Niagara" processor under the terms of the General
| Public License.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6051800.html
Sun's Niagara chip breaks like the Wind River
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| Wind River this week lent a helping hand to one of Sun Microsystems'
| more interesting processor efforts. The software maker announced that
| its telco hardened version of Linux will be tuned for Sun's UltraSPARC
| T1 processor.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/02/sun_windriver/
Perens set to tackle open-source hardware
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| On Monday, Perens plans to announce the TAPR Open Hardware
| License, a document written by John Ackerman designed
| specifically to govern hardware designs that can be
| modified and redistrubuted. Perens plans to submit the
| license to the Open Source Initiative for its as an
| open-source license.
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http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-6156093.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
http://tinyurl.com/2noydh
Sun, allies broaden open-source chip push
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| Sun Microsystems' open-source chip plan is bearing some early fruit,
| but the server and software company hopes to increase further
| involvement by sharing the designs of its forthcoming "Niagara
| 2" processor.
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| Simply RISC, too, was drawn by the open-source license. Sun chose the
| General Public License (GPL), which also governs the Linux kernel
| and thousands of other software projects.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6183562.html
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