Sun Microsystems announces open source of online game technology

[Posted March 13, 2007 by cook]

Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced plans to release the online game server platform Project Darkstar as open-source code. "Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced plans today at the 2007 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco to open source Project Darkstar, a ground-breaking online game server platform written entirely in Java(TM) technology, at the 2007 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The company also announced the opening of registration for the Darkstar Playground, which will enable developers to create a wide variety of games that can be provisioned through a single server platform."

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