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Sun witnesses tremendous growth in OpenSolaris community

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SINGAPORE: Sun

Microsystems
today announced that in the one year since OpenSolaris

community went live, it has experienced tremendous growth in the open source

community and customer adoption.

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Since open sourcing the Solaris Operating System (OS) in June 2005, Sun has

seen the OpenSolaris community grow to more than 14,000 members while Solaris 10

has exceeded five million registered license shipments - more than its

competitors have shipped collectively in the last 18 months, and more than all

current Solaris OS versions combined.

Rich Green, executive vice president of software at Sun Microsystems, said,

"Since open sourcing the Solaris

OS
last year, we have exceeded our business and adoption growth targets

year-over-year. Over 85 per cent of the Fortune 500 have the Solaris 10 OS in

development or production."

"This tremendous growth is a direct result of our three part strategy to

invest in and deliver the most advanced operating system on the planet, adopt a

new software as a service business model and reinvigorate the Sun developer

community with free and open source software," he added.

The OpenSolaris community has accomplished many milestones in its first year

with over 14,000 members, 29 user groups around the world, 40 communities, 27

active projects and more than 100 put backs. Key OpenSolaris customers include

Joyent, the creator of the Team Computer concept, who has built applications,

tools and unique on-demand service and hardware solutions on OpenSolaris and

Solaris ZFS.

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