Oh this is a great move for Sun. Not only will it serve them well with their UltraSPARC T1 platform, it also will do wonders working with such an attractive PR move them as well.
Sun Microsystems and Canonical are going to help each other expand the reach of their respective products.
The two companies on May 30 officially announced that UK-based Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux distribution will support Sun’s UltraSPARC T1 platform.
The vendors took the stage two weeks ago at Sun’s quarterly product rollout and said that such an agreement was on its way.
The agreement—in which Canonical’s free Debian-based Ubuntu 6.06 Long Term Support Linux distribution will run on Sun’s T1000 and T2000 servers—is the latest step in Sun’s courtship of the open-source community, which in the past has included the release of such technologies as Solaris and UltraSPARC T1 to the community.
Eventually the Santa Clara, Calif., company will open-source Java, CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Senior Vice President Richard Green said at the Sun event May 16…. Source: eWeek
[tags]linux,ubuntu,debian,canonical[/tags]