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eWeek: Analysts: Sun’s Open Solaris Plans Face Problems

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Jan 25, 2005

” On Tuesday, Sun Microsystems Inc. will announce that it will
be using its newly minted Common Development and Distribution
License open-source license for its long-promised Open Solaris
project. However, creating a developer community around such plans
to open-source Solaris will not be easy—for many
reasons—according to analysts and industry figures.

“Sun has long promised that it would open-source Solaris, but it
has yet to answer in detail how it will deal with questions about
The SCO Group Inc.’s Unix intellectual property claims…”

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