Sun Microsystems to Support Linux O/S on its Hardware, REPORTS Computer Reseller News
MANHASSET, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 1998--Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) said it will announce, as early as next week, widespread support for the Linux operating system on its hardware, according to an exclusive page-one story to appear in the December 7 issue of CMP Media's Computer Reseller News.
Sun has been working quietly with distributors and a select number of Linux community representatives to port Linux to its UltraSparc processor by as early as February, channel sources and Sun executives told the technology newspaper. The initiative, unofficially called UltraPenguin, mainly involves Sun hardware and not the company's own Solaris operating system, they said.
This is not Sun's first attempt to cooperate with those supporting the popular alternative flavor of Unix. In November, the company committed to helping port its Java Development Kit 1.2 to Linux.
"We consider anyone who is using Linux to be in the open standards camp and making good things happen, especially since there is such great interoperability between Linux and Solaris," Sun's group manager for Power Workstations Robert Novak told Computer Reseller News. "It offers a real strong alternative to NT and Windows."
In addition to appearing in the December 7 issue of Computer Reseller News, complete reporting by Section Editor Joe Wilcox will be posted to the technology newspaper's Web site, crn.com.
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