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Java Technologies Extend Global Distribution with Canonical's Latest Ubuntu Linux Release
Sun and Canonical today announced the immediate availability of a complete, production quality Java technology stack and developer tools with the latest release of Ubuntu, v7.04, making it easier for GNU/Linux developers to leverage the Java platform in their applications. This stack, which is comprised of key popular Java technologies such as GlassFish(TM) v1 (the open source Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 implementation), Java Platform, Standard Edition (JDK 6), Java DB 10.2 (built from Apache Derby) and NetBeans(TM) IDE 5.5 -- will be available in the Multiverse component of the Ubuntu repository on April 19. These technologies will be available for Ubuntu users to install easily over the network with apt-get and other standard software management tools.
Jonathan's Latest: What Brand Means,"For those that deliver service via the network (or free software), brand is all you've got
But a brand must go beyond a promise. To me, a brand is a cause - a guiding light. For fulfilling expectations, certainly, as well as dealing with the ill-defined and unexpected. It's what tells your employees how to act when circumstances (and customers) go awry, or well beyond a training course. My first real experience with that was a personal one.
Sun Microsystems Inc. has pledged to shrink its carbon footprint by 20 percent by 2012 from its 2002 total, As the 27th anniversary of Earth Day approaches on Sunday, more companies are realizing that embracing energy conservation is good business, not just good public relations:
Many technology companies highlight energy-efficient products they make for their customers, but more than 100 U.S companies, including AMD, have pledged to reduce energy consumption in their own operations, taking steps as complicated as converting to renewable energy or as simple as selling a vacant office building.
Posted at 03:53PM Apr 20, 2007 by barkodar in 99 Sec Sun News | Comments[0]