Murdoch on Sun and Linux

Ian Murdoch of Debian and now Sun’s Chief Operating Platforms Officer is answering lots of questions about Sun’s friendliness with Linux. I wrote earlier about Sun’s partnership with Ubuntu in getting Java development applications into the main Ubuntu repository. Here’s an interview Murdoch gave technewsworld.com. Says Ian,
Solaris has some great technology, and I think [...]

Ubuntu and Sun in Java Partnership

Sun is working closely with Canonical, parent company of Ubuntu, to get Sun’s Java platforms (and other technologies) into Ubuntu’s multiverse repository. Open sourcing of Java continues to be a roadblock to getting Java into the main repository, but Sun is moving quickly to do that.
Included are packages for Netbeans, Glassfish, Java SE, and Java [...]