Sun Microsystems has announced it will be bundling the Java Enterprise Systems (Java ES) and its suite of developer tools with the Solaris Operating System. The move, which has been expected for some time, is part of the company's open-source strategy for Solaris and provide programmers with a complete development environment.
At the beginning of the year Sun announced that it would release an open-source Solaris 10 under its CDDL licence. It seems to have worked. The company says that it has distributed more than three million registered licenses for the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) since the new version of the operating system became available on January 31. That's more than a year ahead of its target according to Sun president Jonathan Schwartz. According to Sun, customers and partners download the Solaris 10 OS free of charge, at a rate of about 80,000 licenses per week.
The company has also released a new version of Java ES to support Solaris 10 OS, Windows 2000, Linux and HP-UX environments. As part of its cross platform support deal with Microsoft, the company has also pledged to support Windows 2003 Server within the next 90 days.
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