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2001-12-07 09:57:00 +00:00
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<a href="../index.html">Home</a> :
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2001-12-07 09:57:00 +00:00
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<a href="../organization.html">Organization</a> :
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<a href="../documentation.html">Documentation</a> :
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<a href="../membership.html">Membership</a> :
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<h3 align="center">SUN JOINS GNOME FOUNDATION</h2>
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Adopts upcoming GNOME 2.0 as future user desktop for Solaris[tm] Operating Environment
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PALO ALTO, CA -- August 15, 2000 -- Today at the LinuxWorld 2000 conference in San Jose,
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California, Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced it is joining the GNOME Foundation, a new
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organization of open community developers and leading high-technology companies that
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will advance GNOME as an industry-wide open user environment. Sun also announced it will
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adopt GNOME 2.0 as the future desktop for its Solaris[tm] Operating Environment. In a
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related announcement, the GNOME Foundation announced it will adopt OpenOffice.org
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technology as the core for GNOME Office Suite.
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Solaris Operating Environment is the world's leading mission-critical UNIX(R) operating
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environment, used by global corporations. OpenOffice.org is the industry initiative to
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deliver open office productivity applications, based on Sun's StarOffice office
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productivity suite, that was provided to the open source community by Sun in July.
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"We are delighted to be joining the GNOME Foundation and to be adopting GNOME as the
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modern desktop for Solaris. Linux developers will now be able to tap into the industrial
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power of Solaris as they develop applications for desktops and Internet-enabled devices
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for the dot-com era," said Marco Boerries, vice president and general manager of webtop
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and application software at Sun Microsystems, Inc. "Sun is committing significant
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engineering resources to ensure that GNOME integrates seamlessly into Solaris."
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"This is the first time a major systems vendor has embraced free software/open-source
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software as a key element of its primary operating system," said Miguel de Icaza,
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founder of the GNOME project and Helix Code. "Sun's commitment to GNOME helps usher in a
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new era in delivering a complete and modern future user environment for not only the Sun
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community but for the open-source community as well."
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By focusing on Sun's areas of development expertise--robust UNIX technology, printing,
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internationalization, accessibility, and network configuration and management--Sun will
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drive reliability and quality with the GNOME Foundation.
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<br><br>
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<b>About GNOME 2.0</b>
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GNOME 2.0 will be the first major release from the GNOME Foundation, which will
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integrate the advanced technologies from the GNOME Foundation partners with existing
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technology from the GNOME Project. Some of the features planned for GNOME 2.0 include an
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advanced and easy-to-use user environment; an integrated and free office productivity
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suite; and the latest browser technology from the Mozilla Project.
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<b>Availability</b>
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GNOME 2.0 for Solaris is scheduled to be available from Sun by the middle of calendar
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year 2001. Sun plans to start releasing early access versions of GNOME 2.0 for Solaris,
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as the GNOME 2.0 technology becomes available, around the end of calendar year 2000.
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CDE-based applications will continue to run in the new Solaris desktop environment
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without change, and Sun will continue to support CDE users and applications.
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<br><br>
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<b>About GNOME and the GNOME Foundation</b>
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<br><br>
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The GNOME project has built a completely free and easy-to-use desktop environment, as
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well as a powerful application framework for software developers on Linux and other
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Unix-like operating systems. The GNOME Foundation will provide organizational, financial
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and legal support to the GNOME project, and help determine its vision and roadmap.
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Present members include Compaq, Eazel, Free Software Foundation, Gnumatic, Hewlett
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Packard, Helix Code, Henzai, IBM, Object Management Group, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems,
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TurboLinux and VALinux. Collab.Net, the leading provider of collaborative software
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development services based on open source principles, is helping to organize the GNOME
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Foundation. GNOME is part of the GNU project, an effort to build a completely free
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Unix-like operating system better known as GNU/Linux or Linux. Additional information is
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available at www.gnome.org.
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<br><br>
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<b>About Sun Microsystems, Inc.</b>
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Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- has
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propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW), to its position as a leading provider
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of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that power the Internet and allow
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companies worldwide to dot-com their businesses. With $15.7 billion in annual revenues,
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Sun can be found in more than 170 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com.
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and was designed by <a href="mailto:jpsc@users.sourceforge.net">JP
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Schnapper-Casteras</a> and <a href="mailto:bart@eazel.com">Bart Decrem</a>.</font></center>
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