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Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 19:03:48 -0800
From: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
To: ultralinux@vger.rutgers.edu, sparclinux@vger.rutgers.edu, gnu@toad.com
Subject: Sun Microsystems to Support Linux O/S on its Hardware

http://www1.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=3DCnMDSubKbytaXnJi

      Sun Microsystems to Support Linux O/S on its
      Hardware, REPORTS Computer Reseller News

      Business Wire - December 04, 1998 17:15

      MANHASSET, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4,
      1998--Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) said it
      will announce, as early as next week, widespread
      support for the Linux operating system on its
      hardware, according to an exclusive page-one story
      to appear in the December 7 issue of CMP Media's
      Computer Reseller News.

      Sun has been working quietly with distributors and
      a select number of Linux community representatives
      to port Linux to its UltraSparc processor by as
      early as February, channel sources and Sun
      executives told the technology newspaper. The
      initiative, unofficially called UltraPenguin,
      mainly involves Sun hardware and not the company's
      own Solaris operating system, they said.

      This is not Sun's first attempt to cooperate with
      those supporting the popular alternative flavor of
      Unix. In November, the company committed to
      helping port its Java Development Kit 1.2 to
      Linux.

      "We consider anyone who is using Linux to be in
      the open standards camp and making good things
      happen, especially since there is such great
      interoperability between Linux and Solaris," Sun's
      group manager for Power Workstations Robert Novak
      told Computer Reseller News. "It offers a real
      strong alternative to NT and Windows."

      In addition to appearing in the December 7 issue
      of Computer Reseller News, complete reporting by
      Section Editor Joe Wilcox will be posted to the
      technology newspaper's Web site,
      http://www.crn.com.

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