Sun Microsystems may start selling its enterprise
servers equipped with the Linux-based Dapper Drake OS from
Ubuntu.
At Sun’s annual JavaOne conference in the US this week, Sun
chief executive officer Jonathan Schwartz said he was a big fan of
the Ubuntu open source project.
Schwartz Ubuntu was now gaining open source community support
from main Linux distributions from the likes of Red Hat and
Novell.
Ubuntu project founder Mark Shuttleworth also appeared on stage
with Schwartz during his keynote speech at JavaOne, to endorse
Java.
Ubuntu is hoping to gain support in the enterprise community
with the appearance of its Dapper Drake release next month.
Dapper Drake will run on both 32-bit and 64-bit Intel-based
servers, along with other systems, including those running PowerPC
chips.
It was also hinted at JavaOne that the OS would run on servers
carrying Sun’s Sparc processors.
Shuttleworth asked the JavaOne audience whether they would like
to see Ubuntu run on Niagara, which is Sun's multi-core and
multi-thread Sparc processor. He got an enthusiastic response.