Will OpenSolaris bring a chill to Sun, Ubuntu's warm ties?

May 2, 2008 (Friday) | Linux

You scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours. That seems to be the mantra of Ubuntu and Sun, both open source underdogs whose relationship and mutual platform support has been growing for three years.  On the eve of the release of OpenSolaris, both companies are banging the drum that the romance will continue.  Canonical announced that its recently launched "Hardy Heron" would be the first commercial Linux distribution to support Sun's OpenJDK. Support for OpenJDK and NetBeans in the latest Ubuntu 8.04 LTS is far more significant because both are available in the universe repository, which mean they are free of charge. Red Hat's Fedora 9, which will be introduced later this month, will also feature an OpenJDK implementation -- but Ubuntu is the only commercial Linux release...