Sun Takes a Shine to Ubuntu for Servers

Sun Microsystems, one of the largest server makers, announced that it would increase the number of products certified for use with Ubuntu Linux, one of the fastest growing open source operating systems. The upcoming expansion — which is expected to be detailed in the coming days — is the latest development in the two-year relationship between Sun and Canonical, which reaches back to the 6.06 LTS release in 2006 which was certified for some Sun systems. By 2007, the Java stack was included with the Ubuntu 7.04 release, said Barton George, Sun Microsystems’ open source community manager.