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Sun Microsystems today began shipping version 1.0 of its JavaFX platform, the runtime and tools combo for content authors and Web developers building rich Internet applications (RIAs).

The Register: "In 2004 Eric Raymond wrote an open letter to Sun Microsystems' then chief executive officer Scott McNealy demanding Sun open up their core Java intellectual property and allow anyone do whatever they damn well please with it."

17Lamp.net: "The first ever GNOME.Asia Summit was held at the Beihang university, Beijing, China, from October 18th to 19th, 2008.

The GNOME Foundation was the organizer of GNOME.Asia Summit in collaboration with Sun Microsystems, Beijing Linux User Group (BLUG) and China OSS Promotion Union (COPU)."

steaming open cup: "The single feed from java.blogs that caught my attention today was this title: Sun Microsystems to Cut 6000 Jobs."

Wired News: "The economic downturn might be pushing Sun Microsystems Inc., one of the storied names in computing, to the brink of extinction."

Sun Microsystems, California, says it is

Sun Microsystems, a leader in Java and open source technologies, put market "speculation to rest" today.

Wall Street Journal: "Sun Microsystems Inc. is making another move to expand its small position in data storage, as the computer maker continues to take advantage of the "open-source" movement that has shaken up parts of the industry."

Openoffice.org Conference: "IBM and Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced the launch of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) Toolkit Union, a new open-source software community project organized to make document software more innovative, versatile and useful for business."

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