Silicon.com: Sun spurned as Red Hat teams up with IBM

"Linux developer Red Hat has partnered with IBM to develop Java-based software components rather than team up with Sun Microsystems - the founder of the Java platform."

"The company will license and distribute IBM's Java Runtime engine, Java Virtual Machine, as well as the Developer Kit for Linux - Java Technology Edition."

"Colin Tenwick, general manager of European Operations at Red Hat, said: "We certainly see a number of developers requiring this technology as they start to deploy into the enterprise. We can meet that demand better in a full open source environment."

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