Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced the winners of the OpenSolaris(TM) Community Innovation Awards Program, designed to fuel innovation around OpenSolaris. The OpenSolaris program included both a contest and a student grant component and was part of Sun’s Open Source Community Innovation Awards Program, a multi-year program running across several open source communities with a $1 Million total prize.

“Solaris has always been the ‘gold standard’ for other operating systems to emulate, and Sun took the Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) movement by storm by publishing Solaris’ source code,” said Grand Prize winner Al Hopper of Genunix.Org. “The OpenSolaris project is now more than three years old, has a healthy and growing user community and continues to gain mindshare. In the future, the launch of OpenSolaris will be seen as a major landmark in the history of computing and will be viewed as a significant precursor to the runaway success of the F/OSS revolution.”

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