From: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Sun Microsystems to Support Linux O/S on its Hardware
Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 03:03:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ultrasparc-91287942724911@msgid-missing> (raw)
http://www1.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=CnMDSubKbytaXnJi
Sun Microsystems to Support Linux O/S on its
Hardware, REPORTS Computer Reseller News
Business Wire - December 04, 1998 17:15
MANHASSET, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4,
1998--Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) said it
will announce, as early as next week, widespread
support for the Linux operating system on its
hardware, according to an exclusive page-one story
to appear in the December 7 issue of CMP Media's
Computer Reseller News.
Sun has been working quietly with distributors and
a select number of Linux community representatives
to port Linux to its UltraSparc processor by as
early as February, channel sources and Sun
executives told the technology newspaper. The
initiative, unofficially called UltraPenguin,
mainly involves Sun hardware and not the company's
own Solaris operating system, they said.
This is not Sun's first attempt to cooperate with
those supporting the popular alternative flavor of
Unix. In November, the company committed to
helping port its Java Development Kit 1.2 to
Linux.
"We consider anyone who is using Linux to be in
the open standards camp and making good things
happen, especially since there is such great
interoperability between Linux and Solaris," Sun's
group manager for Power Workstations Robert Novak
told Computer Reseller News. "It offers a real
strong alternative to NT and Windows."
In addition to appearing in the December 7 issue
of Computer Reseller News, complete reporting by
Section Editor Joe Wilcox will be posted to the
technology newspaper's Web site,
http://www.crn.com.
...
CONTACT: Barry J. Zusman
(516) 562-7040
bzusman@cmp.com
or
Steve Rubel
(516) 562-7434
srubel@cmp.com
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