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open sourcey goodness

Thursday, Aug 16. 2007  –  Category: OpenSolaris, OpenSource

check out sherry’s post on opensolaris-code earlier.

it’s nice to see the Sun/Intel collaboration thing paying off. corporations partner up all the time – but it’s never clear what the exact dividend of said partnership is. sometimes it’s obvious (Partner A bundles Partner B’s software, or Partner A uses Partner B’s hardware), but sometimes it isn’t, e.g. did Google & Sun’s agreement from almost 2 years ago have anything to do with last week’s announce that Google Pack was going to bundle StarOffice?

anyway, the putbacks Sherry mentions are pretty good indicators that the Sun/Intel partnership is paying off dividends already. my only regret is that we don’t have onnv-gate moved outside yet, and that OpenRTI[1] (to steal Rich’s name for it) doesn’t exist (yet).

[1] that would be the ‘open’ replacement for WebRTI (Sun’s Request-To-Integrate) tool, not the Australian Defence Force’s OpenRTI