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Service Provider News Report Newsletter: Feds making significant progress on IPv6, survey finds, 11/15/06
IPv6 has finally reached the tipping point in the U.S. government market, according to the second annual survey of federal, state and local agency IT executives released last week by Juniper.
Sun CEO: Open source Java is ‘momentous’, 11/13/06
Sun Microsystems’s offering of the Java platform via open source under the GNU General Public License is a “momentous” change, said Sun President/CEO Jonathan Schwartz on Monday. But IBM wants the Apache Software Foundation in charge of Java.
Sun is considering GPL for OpenSolaris, 11/13/06
Sun confirmed Monday that it’s open sourcing its Java SE and Java ME under the GNU general public license, so will Sun look to use the GPL for other offerings it has already open sourced, including the OpenSolaris version of its operating system?
Open source directions: IBM’s Bob Sutor on best practices, 11/13/06
Bob Sutor, vice president of open source and standards at IBM, sat down with Network World Senior Editor Deni Connor to discuss the relationship between intellectual property and open source. The discussion ranged from how a company can balance open source and proprietary software development to what Novell and Microsoft are doing.
