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Scotty was asked by the new administration to help on a strategy to use open source for government purposes. The BBC reports in Calls for open source government:

The secret to a more secure and cost effective government is through open source technologies and products. The claim comes from one of Silicon Valley's most respected business leaders Scott McNealy, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems. He revealed he has been asked to prepare a paper on the subject for the new administration.

Ars Technica writes in "A look back at the open source victories of 2008":

Sun released the very first version of OpenSolaris this year. OpenSolaris, which emerged from Project Indiana, was created to build a user-friendly desktop distribution on top of the open source Solaris platform. Despite some early friction, the project shows a lot of promise. The second release, which occurred earlier this month, included some impressive functionality, such as a new ZFS snapshot visualization feature.

Nice to see OpenSolaris in such an article

A few days ago, there was a little bit trollish comment in my blog: Sun must have problems, when we give away our crown jewel Solaris so easy. Well, i´ve replied with a short: Interestingly the opposite is true. There is a long answer from somebody who has to kown it, the CEO of Sun ... or short: Jonathan. He gave a really interesting and insightful interview to CNET´s Matt Asay:

After spending an hour prodding Jonathan with questions about Sun's history and future with open source, I was left with one clear impression: Sun is rising, and open source is the driver behind its rebirth.