The article summary I'm including talks about Sun Microsystems' Linux offerings. They've partnered with Red Hat to distribute Linux on Intel hardware for servers. They're developing their own distribution for Linux on Intel desktop systems.
What makes this really interesting is that Sun was one of the companies that paid SCO Group for licensing. So now Sun is going to be distributing source code (along with the binaries) that SCO group claims violates their copyrights. Will SCO file a giant lawsuit against them now? Mark Post SUN'S LINUX: NOT DEAD AFTER ALL ======================================================================== Posted July 28, 2003 11:32 AM Pacific Time Although Sun Microsystems Inc. discontinued sales several months ago of its customized Linux distribution, the company hasn't entirely abandoned its do-it-yourself Linux strategy: In its forthcoming bundle of desktop software, code-named Mad Hatter, the included Linux operating system will be Sun's own. Sun, based in Santa Clara, California, decided in April to stop marketing its Sun Linux 5.0, saying customers hadn't shown interest in having another version of Linux available. Several weeks later, Sun partnered with leading Linux distributor Red Hat Inc., whose operating system software it now sells on its x86 server hardware. For the full story: http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=40FFD8:1F5EAC5
