Sun Announces Winners of OpenSolaris Community Innovation Awards
Sun Sponsored Awards Program Recognizes Community and Open Source
Technology Innovation
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) September 18, 2008 --
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced the winners of the
OpenSolaris(TM) Community Innovation Awards Program, designed to fuel
innovation around OpenSolaris.
The OpenSolaris program included both a contest and a student grant
component and 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.
“Solaris has always been the ‘gold
standard’ for other operating systems to
emulate, and Sun took the Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) movement
by storm by publishing Solaris’ source code,”
said Grand Prize winner Al Hopper of Genunix.Org. “The
OpenSolaris project is now more than three years old, has a healthy and
growing user community and continues to gain mindshare. In the future,
the launch of OpenSolaris will be seen as a major landmark in the
history of computing and will be viewed as a significant precursor to
the runaway success of the F/OSS revolution.”
“In support of Sun's commitment to free and
open source software, we developed the Open Source Community Innovation
Awards Program to foster innovation and recognize the most interesting
initiatives within open source communities worldwide,”
said Jim Grisanzio, community lead and OpenSolaris Governing Board
member, Sun. “The winning projects we have
chosen demonstrate extraordinary creativity and usefulness to the
community.”
The OpenSolaris Community made two types of awards:
OpenSolaris Community
The OpenSolaris open source project was created by Sun Microsystems in
2005 to build a developer community around the Solaris OS. It is aimed
at developers, system administrators and users who want to develop and
improve operating systems. As of August 2008, there are more than
100,000 community members registered on http://opensolaris.org.
Seventy OpenSolaris User Groups around the world represent an active and
growing collaboration with dozens of OpenSolaris technology groups and
projects hosted on http://opensolaris.org.
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.
Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Java, OpenSolaris, Solaris, and “The
Network Is The Computer” are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. or its subsidiaries in
the United States and other countries.
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