Sun Opens Java

13.November.2006—Sun believes deeply in creating communities and sharing innovations and technologies to foster more participation. Today in a historic move, Sun is opening the door to greater innovation by open sourcing key Java implementations—Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE), Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME), and Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE)—under the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2), the same license as GNU/Linux. » Read more.

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Chapter 1 (08:27)

Sun Opens Java: Opening comments from Jonathan Schwartz, President and CEO

Chapter 2 (23:08)

GPLv2 License and Java SE, ME, EE and NetBeans communities with Rich Green, EVP, Software

Chapter 3 (07:29)

Thoughts from the Industry: Hear what the community has to say about the open source Java announcement.

Chapter 4 (17:23)

Question and Answer Session with Jonathan Schwartz and Rich Green.

Chapter 5 (00:25)

November 13, Safe Harbor Statement

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