Sun: Open Source Niagara 'Successful'

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"The success Sun Microsystems has seen from publishing the hardware designs of its Niagara processor is pushing the server and software company to continue its open source chip initiative, and release the source codes of its latest 'Niagara 2' processor.

"Speaking to reporters during a conference call last week, David Yen, executive vice president of Sun's scalable systems group, revealed that there has been more than 5,500 downloads of the OpenSparc T1 source code since its UltraSparc T1 Niagara processor was made open source in March last year..."

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