At LinuxWorld in San Jose, California, Sun Microsystems announced that it is joining the Gnome Foundation, a new organisation of open community developers and companies that will advance the Gnome desktop as an industry-wide open user environment.
Sun also announced it will adopt Gnome 2.0 as the future desktop for its Solaris Operating Environment, and in a related announcement, the Gnome Foundation announced it would adopt OpenOffice.org technology as the core for Gnome Office Suite.
OpenOffice.org is an industry initiative to deliver open office productivity applications, based on Sun's StarOffice office productivity suite, which was opened to the open source community in July.
"We are delighted to be joining the Gnome Foundation and to be adopting Gnome as the modern desktop for Solaris. Linux developers will now be able to tap into the industrial power of Solaris as they develop applications for desktops and Internet-enabled devices for the dot-com era," said Marco Boerries, VP and GM of Webtop and application software at Sun Microsystems.
"Sun is committing significant engineering resources to ensure that Gnome integrates seamlessly into Solaris," he added.
"This is the first time a major systems vendor has embraced free software/open source software as a key element of its primary operating system," said Miguel de Icaza, founder of the Gnome project and Helix Code.
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