Author: JT Smith
Microsystems today
announced the launch of
SunSource.net, a new developer Web portal that
centralizes critical
information on all of Sun’s free and open source
projects and acts as a
focal point as developers inside Sun and throughout
the community engage in
conversations on open source issues. SunSource.net
further demonstrates
Sun’s commitment to advancing open source software.
It provides yet another
tool for open source developers to engage with Sun
on co-development efforts
and focuses on Sun’s rapidly growing open source
efforts, including five
Sun-sponsored community projects that total more
than 8 million lines of
source code and ten additional community projects to
which Sun contributes. Sun has made a serious commitment to open source
software development over
the last two years, including the single largest
contribution to date
through OpenOffice.org, the site that hosts the
StarOffice(TM) source code.
The benefits of developing software based on open
source are well defined
and well known throughout the community — shared
development, shared
debugging, shared support. And most importantly, no
vendor lock-in or
monopoly.
“Unlike our competitors, Sun is actually
contributing real code to the open
source community,” said Doug Kaewert, vice
president, Sun Developer Network
organization. “Open source software development is
a core part of Sun’s
strategy. It’s a model that has value for both Sun
and for developers. And
with SunSource.net, developers now have one focused
resource through which
to directly engage Sun in conversations regarding
all our open source
projects.”
SunSource.net is a one-stop access point for
developers, featuring links to
all of Sun’s free and open source projects,
including Sun-sponsored projects
(Netbeans.org, OpenOffice.org, Jxta.org, Brazil, and
Java Reliable Multicast
Service(TM)) and community projects Sun is
contributing to or sponsoring
(Apache-based projects, such as Ant, Batik, Crimson,
Struts and Tomcat; and
other projects, such as GNOME, Mozilla(TM), TI-RPC
for NFSv4, NFS v4 on
Linux, Solaris(TM) X Internationalization
Framework). Developers also have
access to mailing lists to begin conversations with
developers inside Sun
and also with members throughout the global open
source community regarding
Sun’s policies and involvement with open source and
about open source in
general.
CollabNet, a leading provider of collaborative
software development
solutions based on open source concepts, has been
contracted by Sun to
provide the infrastructure for SunSource.net, which
follows three other
community sites that Sun and CollabNet have built in
the last year,
including Jxta.org, Netbeans.org, and
OpenOffice.org. For SunSource.net, Sun
worked with CollabNet to port its SourceCast
platform to Solaris 8, rated
the #1 UNIX® operating environment by D.H. Brown
Associates for reliability,
availability, serviceability, and security and a
powerful platform for
collaborative, open source software development
projects. CollabNet will
continue to offer SourceCast on Solaris Operating
Environment as an optional
platform for its customers.
The CollabNet SourceCast platform provides a
comprehensive Web-based
development environment that enables geographically
dispersed groups of
developers to collaborate on software projects.
SourceCast tools for
revision control, issue tracking, mailing list
creation and management,
Web-based administration, and custom branding and
content. In addition,
SourceCast provides the flexibility and security
needed to support both
proprietary and open source software development
projects.
“The SunSource site provides developers with a
single location from where
they can easily link to all of Sun’s Open Source
Networks,” said Brian
Behlendorf, co-founder and CTO of CollabNet. “Since
CollabNet is providing
our SourceCast platform for all of Sun’s major open
source initiatives,
developers can use the same tools to work on any of
the projects. In
addition, SourceCast on Solaris allows CollabNet to
offer our customers an
additional platform option to help meet their
business requirements.”
For more information on SunSource.net, go to:
http://www.sunsource.net
About Solaris Operating Environment
The Solaris 8 Operating Environment (OE) is the
leading operating system for
UNIX servers and is the highest ranked UNIX
operating environment by D.H.
Brown Associates. With better than a 30 percent
share of the worldwide UNIX
server operating environment shipments in 2000,
Solaris leads with double
the market share of the next most popular UNIX
operating environment. The
Solaris 8 OE combines new levels of availability and
reliability with
support for massive scalability, sophisticated
manageability and advanced
security. It is available for both SPARC(TM) and
Intel Architecture
platforms and supports more than 12,000
applications. Integrated with
Planet’s LDAP Directory, Solaris 8 OE enables
enterprises adapting to the
Internet age, and dot-com businesses adopting the
disciplines of the data
center, to increase service levels while at the same
time reducing service
costs and risks.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision —
“The Network Is The
Computer(TM)” — has propelled Sun Microsystems,
Inc., to its position as a
leading provider of industrial-strength hardware,
software and services that
power the Internet and allow companies worldwide to
dot-com their
businesses. With $19.2 billion in annual revenues,
Sun can be found in more
than 170 countries and on the World Wide Web at
http://www.sun.com.
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CONTACT: Jim Grisanzio of Sun Microsystems, Inc.,
408-517-7091, or
jim.grisanzio@eng.sun.com.
SOURCE: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
