Live From Sun Tech Days Sao Paulo: Winners of the OpenJDK Community
Innovators' Challenge Are Celebrated
Sun Sponsored Awards Program Recognizes Open Source Technology
Innovation With Winners Sharing $175,000 Prize
SAO PAULO, Brazil (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) September 29, 2008 --
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced the winners of the OpenJDK
Community Innovators' Challenge designed to fuel innovation around
the OpenJDK project. The contest was part of Sun's Open
Source Community Innovation Awards Program, a multi-year program
running across several open source communities with a $1 million total
prize.
The OpenJDK Community Challenge is intended to encourage and reward
developers who are working together to solve key problems, initiate
projects that promote new uses for the code, develop curricula and
training, and port the OpenJDK code base to new platforms.
“The OpenJDK Challenge gave me the opportunity
to work on an open source project I dreamt about for years but never had
the time to work on,” said Gold Medal winner,
Clemens Eisserer. “I hope my project will help
Java software on Unix become an even better platform in the long run for
client applications, I already have plans to enhance performance and
support for more platforms.”
“We're very happy with how the Challenge
turned out,” said Mark Reinhold, Principal
Engineer for Java SE and OpenJDK at Sun. “It
was fairly difficult to choose amongst the completed projects, all of
which were technically impressive but touched very different parts of
the platform.”
The OpenJDK Community Innovators' Challenge categories and winners are:
Visit Sun
news to hear Simon Phipps, Dalibor Topic and Ray Gans of Sun chat
with award winners Clemens Eisserer, Neal Gafter, Roman Kennke, Mario
Torre, and Stephen Colebourne.
Sun is celebrating the growth of the open source community throughout
the month of September. In addition to OpenJDK, Sun's open source
portfolio of products includes GlassFish(TM), OpenOffice.org(TM),
OpenSolaris(TM), Open Storage, NetBeans(TM), MySQL(TM), PostgreSQL and
OpenSPARC(TM). For
more on Sun's open source offerings.
OpenJDK Community
OpenJDK is the open source implementation of the Java Platform, Standard
Edition (Java SE) specifications and an open source community for the
ongoing development of Sun's implementation of Java SE. Within the
OpenJDK Community developers gather to collaborate on the open source
JDK code base and related projects. Through the OpenJDK project,
developers can participate along with their peers and directly influence
the future of the JDK implementation. OpenJDK is licensed as free
software under the GPLv2.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global
marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is The
Computer"(TM) -- Sun drives network participation through shared
innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be
found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.
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