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calendar, mail, memo, and address book. CDE now features streaming video using MPEG1, MPEG2, QuickTime, and AVI formats, as

well as MIDI audio using Java Media Framework technology.

GNOME 2.0 Desktop Environment

GNOME 2.0, the modern desktop for the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS), provides applications and tools that are

designed to enhance business productivity in a networked world. GNOME 2.0 helps organizations achieve their business goals by

offering a unified, modern, open, networked, and cost-effective desktop solution. Key features of GNOME 2.0

include:

• Personalization capabilities that allow users to change settings to suit their preferences

• Removes complexity of supporting disparate desktop user environments and provides a richer common unified desktop

• Open file standards provide transparent file and data interchange

• Built-in accessibility support enables all users to interact with the GNOME 2.0 desktop environment running on any UNIX platform

• Flexibility and choice to run GNOME, CDE/Motif, and Java technology-based applications unmodified, preserving existing software

investments

• Support for key open standards to facilitate interoperability, compatibility, and collaboration in today’s highly-networked,

heterogeneous world, including support for XML, DOM, HTTP, HTML, CORBA, MIME, Unicode, MPEG, JPEG, AVI, MIDI, XDnD (drag

& drop), X11, NFS, and TCP/IP

GNOME 2.0 for the Solaris OS is open source, free software with no upgrade or licensing fees. More information about GNOME 2.0 is

available at http://www.sun.com/gnome.

Solaris OS Licensing and Usage

Under the Free Solaris™ Binary License Program, Sun is making the binary (runtime) version of its Solaris 10 OS available to anyone

who accepts the terms of the Solaris OS Binary Code License (BCL) and the Free Solaris Binary License Program. There are no fees for

the right to use the software on computers with a capacity of eight or fewer processors. There is a small charge for the media kit.

Refer to http://www.sun.com/software/solaris for current licensing details.

Features of the Solaris OS license include the following:

• No distinction between desktop and server licenses

• Free binary (runtime) license for all systems with eight or fewer CPUs for users who accept the terms of the Solaris 10 OS Binary

Code License and the Free Solaris Binary License Program

• Solaris 10 OS software is provided via the Solaris 10 Media Kit available for purchase at http://www.sun.com/solaris/binaries

• Single Solaris Media Kit for installing multiple systems

• Solaris Media Kit contains additional bundled software

• Solaris Supplemental CD of bundled user and system management tools

• Oracle 8i Enterprise Edition (with development license)

• StarOffice

7.0 productivity suite

• Solaris Software Companion CD of popular freeware

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