Sun Microsystems said on Wednesday that it will offer free access to its Java server suite and N1 management software and bundle them with its Solaris operating system.
Microsoft has claimed the cost of software is not an important issue in the developing world.
Apache Harmony, a project which plans to create an open source implementation of Java, has called on the Java business community to donate software.
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