http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris?entry=ipa_japan_and_opensolaris
I blogged about this since it's a nice win for the Japanese team here. Getting Japan's Information-Technology Promotion Agency (part of METI -- the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) to recognize OpenSolaris is excellent. Perhaps this will help us when starting conversations with universities here since the government is involved to certain degree with open source in this market (though I'm still coming up to speed on this so forgive my ignorance). I find it also encouraging that the Sun team here lead with OpenSolaris when talking about a Solaris & Sun Ray deployment. This is an example of how open source can help sell products and how a company's support of a product can help grow the developer community working on the source. I'll follow this, of course, and report back. If there is anyone who has more info, please let me know. :) Again, you can put the Japanese links through Google's translator http://translate.google.com/translate_t but the English is rough. Jim
