Página web de una de las empresas de informática más importantes del mundo y que además ha fabricado varios microprocesadores a lo largo de la historia.
From Timothy Prickett Morgan: "And Sun is becoming a different kind of company, one that is as interested in building communities as it is in making money."
From Doc Searls: So I'm in the odd position of being unable to run my own scoop: that Sun Microsystems is not only opening its SPARC microprocessor source code, but leaning toward the GPL as its license.
From David Berlind: Quotes from Schwartz interview with Doc Searls.
From Dan Farber, ZDNet: During an interview at Syndicate 2005 with Doc Searls, Sun President and COO Jonathan Schwartz said that while BSD and Mozilla licenses were under consideration for the SPARC processor design, the most likely candidate is the GPL.
Lessig on OpenSPARC
Shankland on OpenSPARC
eWeek on OpenSPARC
Timothy Prickett Morgan on OpenSPARC
Simon Phipps on OpenSPARC
Richard McDougall's review of Sun's SPARC blogs today.
/. on OpenSPARC
Jaime Cardoso's comprehensive analysis of the Sun Analyst Summit and the company's turnaround. I'd agree. We're very much awake around here now. Jaime: " ... if you're not quite amazed, you must be in some stage of a coma."
Conversation on Slashdot.
Sci-Tech-Today: OpenSPARC: " ... an almost breathtaking first step in the development of a new business model and the natural extension of the open source software movement."
Lot's of "new" stamps all over this site.
Computerworld: " Sun yesterday quietly released engineering specifications for its UltraSparc chip, making the previously proprietary information available to open-source developers more than a month ahead of schedule."
Linux may be coming to the T1, and OpenSPARC may be helpful to Linux developers. Cool. Also in the article are some bits about the community effort to port OpenSolaris to PowerPC. IBM's comment at the end is funny, too.
Ashlee Vance: "Sun's UltraSPARC T1 stands as one of the more unique processors on the server market at this time. "
Interesting public statements from Sun execs about internal politics.