LinuxInsider: Open Source Alternative | Linux Today

LinuxInsider: Open Source Alternative

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 13, 2004

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“Sun Microsystems plans to create more awareness and usage of
open source with the rollout of its open source-based Java Desktop
System (JDS) to secondary schools and institutions of higher
education.

“The JDS, which was introduced late last year, consists of a
fully integrated client environment based on open source components
and industry standards, provides a complete desktop environment and
productivity tools which includes the GNOME desktop environment,
StarOffice Office Productivity Suite, Mozilla browser, Evolution
mail and calendar, Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE platform)
and a Linux operating system…”

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Story

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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