Sun partners to bring GNOME to Solaris

[Warren Togami]

Another source that I read somewhere said that Sun's partner Wipro had 50
full-time programmers working on Gnome.

Sun partners to bring GNOME to Solaris
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2002/0225gnome.html
Sun will team with software makers Ximian and Wipro to complete work on a
version of the GNOME desktop for Sun's Solaris operating system, the
companies announced Monday.

Sun has long said it plans to offer the popular GNOME graphical user
interface along with the CDE it currently includes with Solaris. Sun plans
to have a download of a GNOME 2.0-based product ready for users by the third
quarter. The software will work with Solaris 8 and Solaris 9, which is due
out by mid-year, said Mike Rogers, vice president and general manager for
desktop and office productivity at Sun.

The GNOME 2.0 release is a major upgrade to one of the most used GUIs in the
open source community. Sun has made several contributions to GNOME 2.0,
including work on accessibility features for the handicapped and language
support, Rogers said.

Wipro will work on merging the CDE interface with GNOME 2.0 and testing the
software.