According to the recent Gartner report, "Open-Source Software in the Server OS Market 2008: The State of Linux," OpenSolaris is gaining traction and will be a serious competitor to Linux distributions in the next 12 months.
Exciting happenings for the OpenSolaris community are coming next month with the anticipated release of OpenSolaris 2008.05 and the second OpenSolaris Developer Summit set for May 3-4 at the University of California in Santa Cruz, Calif.
With OpenSolaris 2008.05 nearing its release, it may be of interest to some to take a few minutes and watch a Sun Developer Network Channel Webcast of Sun's Chief OS Strategist Ian Murdock showing off the new package system in OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2.
The new OpenSolaris community has elected its Governance Board, seating John Beck, Alan Coopersmith, Glynn Foster, Jim Grisanzio, Simon Phipps, John Plocher and Stephen Lau to the seven-member board. The community also amended its Constitution and outlined the top five community priorities during recent elections.
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