[advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Community Award winner press release

[Terri Molini]

Stay tuned for links to podcasts with some of our winners.

Terri

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*Sun Announces Winners of OpenSolaris Community Innovation Awards*

/Sun Sponsored Awards Program Recognizes Community and Open Source 
Technology Innovation/

*SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- September 18, 2008* -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. 
(NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced the winners of the OpenSolaris(TM) 
Community Innovation Awards Program, designed to fuel innovation around 
OpenSolaris. The OpenSolaris program included both a contest and a 
student grant component and was part of Sun's Open Source Community 
Innovation Awards Program, a multi-year program running across several 
open source communities with a $1 Million total prize.

"Solaris has always been the 'gold standard' for other operating systems 
to emulate, and Sun took the Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) 
movement by storm by publishing Solaris' source code," said Grand Prize 
winner Al Hopper of Genunix.Org. "The OpenSolaris project is now more 
than three years old, has a healthy and growing user community and 
continues to gain mindshare. In the future, the launch of OpenSolaris 
will be seen as a major landmark in the history of computing and will be 
viewed as a significant precursor to the runaway success of the F/OSS 
revolution."

"In support of Sun's commitment to free and open source software, we 
developed the Open Source Community Innovation Awards Program to foster 
innovation and recognize the most interesting initiatives within open 
source communities worldwide," said Jim Grisanzio, community lead and 
OpenSolaris Governing Board member, Sun. "The winning projects we have 
chosen demonstrate extraordinary creativity and usefulness to the 
community."

The OpenSolaris Community made two types of awards:

    * Eighteen contest entries won prizes. See and download the winning
      entries at
      http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/awards/awards_land/Entries/.
      Winning contest entries range from new distributions to tools that
      make using and administering OpenSolaris easier.
    * Six teams of undergraduate students won grants for projects to be
      completed in December 2008. See the winning proposals at
      http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/awards/awards_research_land/Proposals/.
      The OpenSolaris Undergraduate Student Research Grant Program is
      intended to build working relationships between the OpenSolaris
      community and colleges, faculty, and students. The program is
      designed to recognize and award grants for outstanding student
      engineering or research projects related to OpenSolaris.

OpenSolaris Community
The OpenSolaris open source project was created by Sun Microsystems in 
2005 to build a developer community around the Solaris OS. It is aimed 
at developers, system administrators and users who want to develop and 
improve operating systems. As of August 2008, there are more than 
100,000 community members registered on http://opensolaris.org.  Seventy 
OpenSolaris User Groups around the world represent an active and growing 
collaboration with dozens of OpenSolaris technology groups and projects 
hosted on http://opensolaris.org.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global 
marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is The 
Computer"(TM) -- Sun drives network participation through shared 
innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be 
found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.

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Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Java, OpenSolaris, Solaris, and 
"The Network Is The Computer" are trademarks or registered trademarks of 
Sun Microsystems, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and 
other countries.


FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Contact: allpress at sun.com

Terri Molini
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
(408) 404-4976
terri.molini at sun.com

Jessica Cheney
Bite PR for Sun Microsystems, Inc.
(415) 365-0382
jessica.cheney at bitepr.com


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Terri Molini
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Global Communications, Open Source
408/404-4976 office
408/406-9021 mobile
AIM: tmolini

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