Hi Sriram, Thanks!
> Here's an interview with Sun's Chief Open Source Officer: > > http://www.sun.com/emrkt/innercircle/newsletter/0906feature.html > > I learnt from this interview that Sun is very very seriously > investigating how to open source _all_ of their code ! > > This is a monumental task, IMO. For starters I can think of the following : > 1. investigate code > - that may be licensed from others > - to which the license may not be available > - owned along with other companies > - which may directly affect several business divisions. > > 2. What do you do with all those developers ? > - Do they work on the open source version ? > - Sun pays the developers while the world benefits from that work. > > 3. Selling services > - Sun is developing the code, and competes with other service > providers for the service market. Exactly! Unfortunately, a lot of people do not understand how difficult open-sourcing any significant piece of code is. It took a dedicated team a whole year before Solaris code could be open-sourced. > I think, if planned well, this could be as good an offering like IBM > does in the Eclipse eco system. > > Best of luck, Sun, and I hope you folks do well ! Thanks! And it benefits not only Sun but also the entire open-source community. Appreciate the vote of confidence! Regards, Venky.
