Red Hat signs on to Sun's open-source Java project

Marc Wiriadisastra marc at mwiriadi.id.au
Wed Nov 7 03:28:09 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 08:26 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> http://www.press.redhat.com/2007/11/05/red-hat-helps-advance-open-source-java/
> 
> http://www.linuxworld.com.au/pp.php?id=1682397900&fp=2;fpid=1
> 
> "Red Hat has signed Sun's OpenJDK contributor agreement and will now 
> align the work its done on its IcedTea project, which was its own 
> implementation of some parts of the Java SE JDK, with OpenSDK, said 
> Shaun Connolly, vice president of product management for JBoss.
> 
> IcedTea brought together the Fedora project with key Java technologies 
> in a Linux environment, and currently provides open-source alternatives 
> for the few remaining proprietary sections in the OpenJDK project, he 
> said. Fedora is a Red-Hat sponsored Linux project."
> 
> Rahul
> 

Some more here and it's on digg as well.

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15220/

http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/Red_Hat_signs_on_for_open_source_Java_development

Cheers,

Marc




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