A three-year subscription to Sun Services will get a developer a Sun Ultra 20 workstation as part of the deal. At the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco today, Sun Microsystems announced a new deal for developers. For the price of a monthly subscription to Sun Services and a three-year commitment, Sun will provide a workstation for no additional cost.
The Sun Ultra 20 workstation will contain an Opteron 100 series processor from AMD and will have the Solaris 10 operating system pre-installed. Sun will also preload developer tools to the system, including Sun Studio 10, Java Studio Enterprise 7, and Studio Creator.
Users can install Linux or Windows alongside Solaris on the workstation, giving them access to tools specific to those platforms all from the same piece of hardware. The Sun Services subscription provides support and service for workstation issues that may be encountered.
Sun has recently made news with its release of Solaris 10 source code and numerous technology patents under its CDDL license to the open source community. The site here. 
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