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ZDNet Australia: OpenSolaris One Year On: Success or Failure?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 13, 2006

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“In June 2005, Sun Microsystems released core elements of its
flagship Solaris operating system as open source software, making
public more than five million lines of code. The announcement
sparked intense interest among developers. But, one year on, are
the structures governing the OpenSolaris project fully in place and
has the community embraced the offering?

“Evidence on the latter front is promising, with Sun’s own
statistics showing OpenSolaris could already be one of the world’s
largest open source projects…”


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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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