Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Red Hat has signed Sun's open source contributor agreement and the OpenJDK Community TCK licence agreement, paving the way for it to participate in the development of open source Java.
The agreements mean Red Hat gains access to the Java Standard Edition codebase plus the test suite used to determine whether any particular implementation of Java SE 6 complies with the specifications.
These materials will allow Red Hat eventually to offer a version of Java SE 6 optimised for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
"Red Hat fully supports Sun's courageous decision to open source Java technology. After more than 10 years of continuous leadership, the Java technology ecosystem will enter an era of accelerated innovation and benefit from extreme pervasiveness on a wide range of environments," said Sacha Labourey, CTO of Red Hat's JBoss division.
"Through these strategic agreements, Red Hat commits to contribute to the Java platform and distribute a compatible, open source Java software implementation."
The company is already an active member of the Java community. It sits on the executive committee for Java SE/EE, and leads the Web Beans Expert Group.
"It is a vote of confidence to have Red Hat, a leader in open source, engaging with the community on such a broad scale," said Rich Green, executive vice president, software at Sun.
"When we open-sourced our Java software implementation, we hoped to see just this kind of collaboration between the GNU/Linux world and the Java technology ecosystem."
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