Groklaw: Sun and Brand X Open Source
Sep 29, 2004, 23:30 (1 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Pamela Jones)
"How quickly they forget. It was May of 2003 when Sun and Red
Hat entered into a 'global partnership agreement' and Sun put out a
glowing press release about their new life together, their
President Jonathan Schwartz, then executive vice president, saying
this:
"'The combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Sun's x86
systems affirms our commitment to the open source community. This
relationship is the first of many efforts we expect to drive
together with Red Hat on the Linux and Java front... The
combination of Java and Linux gives customers a compelling,
cost-effective, and reliable alternative to proprietary offerings
from Microsoft...'"
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