The Bathing Network Message Sun officially announced the details of its open source strategy on November 2nd local time. Sun discloses that most industry vendors have long guess: Sun's best task is to support its Solaris operating system instead of the Linux operating system.
At a meeting in front of Solaris 10, SUN's Senior Marketing Supervisor John said that the cost of Solaris 10 will be lower than the Linux solution of Red Hat. He said that this does not mean that we are trying to grab Linux's limelight, we sell on our system, support Red Hat Linux, but we will do our best to provide the most attractive Solaris environment. Solaris is our best task, where Solaris cannot meet the needs of customer needs, and we provide and support Linux.
Sun also plans to publish a new compatible technology called "Project Janus", which allows users to run Linux's binary code on the Solaris operating system. At the operating system level level, Janus will serve as an optional kernel service of the Solaris operating system.
Glen, vice president of SUN Operating System Group, said that because many Linux binary code rely on their targeted operating environment, we first resolve the ability to run the Red Hat Linux binary code, and then gradually support other versions of Linux. Although it is impossible to appear in the original version of Solaris 10, Janus will appear in the first upgrade version of Solaris 10. He said we will first ensure that binary code compatibility between different versions of Solaris is currently considering binary code compatibility between Red Hat Linux.
Jonathan, president of Sun, said that he believes that the Solaris operating system of open source code will become a balance force on the open source operating system market, users and developers can compare between Solaris and Red Hat Linux. Our licensing methods will be more flexible and generous. Jonathan said that Sun launched an open source version of Solaris's goal is not to weaken Linux, but to ensure that we can provide RED HAT's competitors, because Red Hat is not Linux, although it is a Linux company. "Jonathan also It is pointed out that we have not yet determined that the license type of the Solaris operating system of the open source, and the GPL licensing method is not excluded, and it has the same opportunity to other licensing methods.
Glen pointed out that although Sun will open as many Solaris operating system source code, but because it does not have all the intellectual property rights of the Solaris operating system, it is not much possible to open all code. (Liu Yanqing compiled)
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