[osol-mktg] ServerWatch Awards open source community runner up

[Sara Dornsife]

Congratulations! From Sun PR today....

Hi all:

ServerWatch posted their winners for the 2006 Product Awards. Although 
OpenSolaris did not win, it was a runner up in the Open Source Community 
Category. Below please find the full description, as well as a link to 
the article.
Best,
Liza

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http://www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3611436

Open Source Community


We hear much about open source products and the impact they're having on 
the ways enterprises do business. Although we're not going to argue with 
this, we believe it is the project behind the product, and by extension 
the community, that differentiates a successful open source endeavor 
from the thousands of abandoned projects on SourceForge. All five of our 
nominees (Jabber, JBoss, OpenSolaris, SugarCRM, and Xen) are outstanding 
projects whose products have a place in many businesses.

There can only be one winner, however, and the Jabber community triumphed.

At its core, Jabber is a set of XML protocols for streaming 
communications. Because the Jabber protocols are standardized and freely 
available, any developer can incorporate Jabber with a compatible 
existing product. And they certainly have. Jabber is currently found in 
a host of products, both commercial and open source, including Antepo 
OPN, jabberd, Merak, and Wildfire.

Operating systems helped blaze the open source trail, and our runner-up 
is no exception to this. The OpenSolaris project, sponsored by Sun 
Microsystems, is a community built around the Solaris operating system. 
The project contains the core kernel, networking, libraries and commands 
from the Solaris OS as well as tools and community-driven off-shoots.


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