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Reuters: Sun teams with Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 8, 1998

“Sun Microsystems Tuesday said it has teamed up with the
loose-knit community of Linux software developers to make the
popular ‘freeware’ run on the network computing company’s
systems.”

Since the original posting on December 8th, other mainstream
press have picked this story up. URLs are below.

ZDNN
Story

Techweb
Story

Wired
Story

PLCOM

San
Jose Mercury News

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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