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Red Hat and Sun to launch open source Java? Posted: Aug 21, 2003 11:58 PM
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Red Hat is planning on launching an open source version of Java, probably with the blessing of Sun Microsystems.

This is particularly interesting to me because of the really heated discussions going on in javalobby.org, where Gerald of the Free Java campaign has locked horns with several Sun employees and other Java advocates about open sourcing the platform.

This is also interesting in light of the recent announcement by Apache that it would be creating a J2EE app server with Sun's approval. It really looks like Sun is in overdrive with advocating Java to the open source world, so the company may not be as stupid as people nowadays seem to think it is. Sun knows that open source is a sword that can deal some hurting to its nominal arch-enemy, Microsoft.

"Red Hat Inc is in discussions with Sun Microsystems Inc about launching an open source version of Sun's Java environment, according to Red Hat chairman and CEO Matthew Szulik.

Szulik said that Red Hat has been working for five years on open source versions of Java technologies such as Just In Time compilers and Java Virtual Machines in a clean room environment, and has requested the sponsorship of Sun to go ahead with the full-scale project.

"There's always been an interest in an open source implementation of Java developed in a clean room that adheres to the Java standards," Szulik told ComputerWire. "We're in discussions with Sun. We'd like to do this with their support."

Sun has shied away from calls to launch an open source version of Java in the past, but has contributed other technologies to the open source community, such as the OpenOffice office applications suite and the NetBeans Java development environment. The company has also made it easier for open source Java 2 Enterprise Edition implementations to be tested against the official Test Compatibility Kit without being required to also accept official J2EE code.

Szulik said that discussions between Red Hat and Sun had reached a "very serious stage", but he would not estimate a timeline for the delivery of an open source version of Java.

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