If you take a look anywhere on the Sun website, listen to any speech by a Sun executive or review any piece of Sun marketing material, you can't help but notice that when it comes to Sun there is one universal truth: open source is the ideal development and business model for today and tomorrow.
We are one of the largest contributors to the open source community thus quelling any criticism that Sun is proprietary. We have done this for both hardware and software and we will continue to open source more of our technology in the future.
Unfortunately, we have not done a good enough job of spreading the “gospel.” Too often we still are portrayed as a proprietary solution by our competitors, the media and even some long-time customers that may not be aware of our innovations over the past several years.
At Sun, our business is based on three key pillars:
1. Build software as a foundation.
2. Grow developer and customer communities.
3. Improve product quality for enterprise solutions.
Starting with Solaris 10 and the T1 processor we have begun to open source our operating systems and hardware, and eventually all our software.
Every Sun operating system and chip has been open sourced and has been indemnified. Open source is secure. Open source is efficient. In short, open source is the answer. All of our software stack is either open sourced today, or is in the process of being open sourced under the Open Source Initiative (OSI) license.
See for yourself. You can download all our software for free.
And, if you want all our SPARC open standards chip information, simply go to the SPARC Industry Standard Organization.
We want everyone to fully understand the benefits of open source and open standards, whether they use Sun or anyone else. It is that important to us. Check out our new web portal, OpenYourMindToday to find out more about Sun Federal's open source capabilities and general information about the benefits of open sourcing your data centers, your storage and your systems.
