The agreement allows Red Hat to develop an officially compatible open-source Java Development Kit for its Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Open source solution vendor Red Hat is collaborating with Sun Microsystems with the aim of creating a 'fully compatible, open source Java Development Kit (JDK) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux,' according ...

Red Hat has signed on to participate in Sun Microsystems' open-source Java Standard Edition (SE) project, OpenJDK, and to coordinate its own Java development efforts for Linux with the project.

It took years, but Linux seller Red Hat finally has set up a Java partnership with Sun Microsystems.