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Sun shares its technology with Vietnam’s open source community
10:27' 27/05/2007 (GMT+7)

VietNamNet Bridge – Sun Microsystems has opened the source codes of its
operating systems JavaSE, NetBeans, Solaris and is providing them free of charge
for the community of IT developers of Vietnam.

Naveen Asrani, Manager in charge of developers in Asia-Pacific of Sun
Microsystems, announced this information at the 3rd Sun Developer Days in Hanoi
on May 24. A similar event was held in HCM City today, May 25.

Having come to Vietnam three times within the past 18 months, Mr Naveen Asrani
commented that the community of Vietnamese developers had the fastest
development speed in the region.

Besides professional programmers, Sun has also introduced its open source codes
to universities of Vietnam like the Technology University of the National
University, the Hanoi University of Technology, the IT University and the
International University of the National University.

“Our goal is providing tools for programmers to create products to sell to
users. The third users will have to use hardware and support software of Sun and
we earn profit from those users,” Mr Naveen Asrani said.

While software copyrights are being tightened in Vietnam, this is considered an
opportunity for Vietnamese programmers to use open source codes to create
software products without violating copyrights.
(Source: Nhan Dan)

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