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Sun to highlight their open source plans at JavaOne conference

Rich Green, executive VP of software at Sun is likely to update the market with their plans to open source Java at the upcoming annual JavaOne conference in San Francisco.

He is likely to reveal more information on Sun’s decision to release by June all of the source code for Java under the GNU General Public License.

He is expected to be joined by Sun chief executive and President Jonathan Schwartz who is a big supporter of the initiative to licensing more Sun software under the GPL.

Market analysts believe that if Sun had taken these steps a couple of years ago, they could have blunted the attack of a C# and CLR from Microsoft.

Microsoft launched their C# and CLR technologies as their challenger to the Java technology.