Sun's McNealy lays claim to open source
Sun's McNealy has laid claim to creating open source, says Cnet.com.
According to Scott McNealy "We were the Red Hat of Berkeley Unix before Linus Torvalds was out of diapers." And yet, Sun decided to keep Solaris closed until Linux had taken a huge amount of the Unix market away.
In an outburst that he admitted himself was "a little Al Gore-ish", Sun's Scott McNealy earlier this week claimed, in front of Canadian journalists who were asking whether Sun was feeling "pressured" to open source Solaris: "We're the number-one donator of code to the open source community on the planet."
IT leaders urged to contribute code
Open source is no longer a novelty, even within the largest corporations. Today, 53% of businesses use open source software, according to a recent CIO.com survey, reports Computerworld.
However, not enough of those businesses are contributing code back to the open source community, said Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO of Red Hat, at the Red Hat Summit. And such contributions would benefit the enterprise even more than it would the development community, he explained.
According to Jim Zemlin, executive director of The Linux Foundation, 75% of software is written for in-house use. As Whitehurst pointed out, much of that code is never used - a true waste of resources. "Think how much software is written out there that is behind proprietary walls," Whitehurst said.
HP slaps licence on Unix File System
HP has announced it is letting its Tru64 Unix Advanced File System (AdvFS) source code run free in the Linux community, reports This Day.
Access to this code will provide capabilities that increase uptime, enhance security and help ensure maximum performance of Linux file systems, according to HP officials. The AdvFS sourcecode will give the Linux community a reference implementation for an enterprise Linux file system.
That includes design documentation, test suites and engineering resources. HP's code contribution provides Linux kernel developers with a comprehensive foundation to improve today's Linux file system functionality, according to the company.
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