Sun open source project codes at sunsource.netPalo Alto 30 May 2001 Sun launched SunSource.net, a developer Web portal that centralizes critical information on all of Sun's free and open source projects and acts as a focal point as developers inside Sun and throughout the community engage in conversations on open source issues.
Sun has made a serious commitment to open source
software development over the last two years,
including the single largest contribution to date
through OpenOffice.org, the site that hosts the
StarOfficesource code. The benefits of
developing software based on open source are well
defined and well known throughout the community --
shared development, shared debugging, shared
support. And most importantly, no vendor lock-in
or monopoly.
SunSource.net is a one-stop access point for
developers, featuring links to all of Sun's free
and open source projects, including Sun-sponsored
projects (Netbeans.org, OpenOffice.org, Jxta.org,
Brazil, and Java Reliable Multicast Service)
and community projects Sun is contributing to or
sponsoring (Apache-based projects, such as Ant,
Batik, Crimson, Struts and Tomcat; and other
projects, such as GNOME, Mozilla , TI-RPC for
NFSv4, NFS v4 on Linux, Solaris X
Internationalization Framework). Developers also
have access to mailing lists to begin
conversations with developers inside Sun and also
with members throughout the global open source
community regarding Sun's policies and involvement
with open source and about open source in general.
CollabNet, a leading provider of collaborative
software development solutions based on open
source concepts, has been contracted by Sun to
provide the infrastructure for SunSource.net,
which follows three other community sites that Sun
and CollabNet have built in the last year,
including Jxta.org, Netbeans.org, and
OpenOffice.org. For SunSource.net, Sun worked
with CollabNet to port its SourceCast platform to
Solaris 8,. CollabNet will
continue to offer SourceCast on Solaris Operating
Environment as an optional platform for its
customers.
The CollabNet SourceCast platform provides a
comprehensive Web-based development environment
that enables geographically dispersed groups of
developers to collaborate on software projects.
SourceCast tools for revision control, issue
tracking, mailing list creation and management,
Web-based administration, and custom branding and
content. In addition, SourceCast provides the
flexibility and security needed to support both
proprietary and open source software development
projects.
For more information on SunSource.net, go to:
http://www.sunsource.net
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