Nat Friedman, the vice-president of Linux desktop engineering at Novell who was a co-founder of Ximian, said: "People want to tell a David and Goliath story, but we're telling a much more targeted story.
The product is targeted at SMEs and includes various CRM modules such as lead management and security management. The product is targeted at SMEs and includes various CRM modules such as lead management and security management.
One of the new licences, called the Java Internal Use License, is targeted at corporate customers that use Java to build business applications. Sun wants to send Java closer to the open source world, yet keep it safe from harm.
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There are a couple of candidates for re-use - the GNU Classpath [a free software project that implements some Java class libraries], existing production JVM [Java Virtual Machine] vendors. The hardest task will be implementing the Java class...
Some manufacturers, such as Motorola, already base the operating systems for some consumer handsets on Linux but the mobile open-source movement has, however, been criticised by some for being too fragmented to be effective in the higher-end smart...