Hey Sun fans, the Java Enterprise System is ready to go! And for the rest of us, it might be worth checking out to see what all it offers.

Sun Microsystems took another step Wednesday in its effort to attract a wider body of users to its struggling software business by making its Java middleware available as open-source code.

“We will be driving for volume, first and foremost,” said Sun President and COO Jonathan Schwartz in a teleconference. “Volume wins in the marketplace, especially the marketplace for technology,” he added, citing the success of Red Hat Linux, the MySQL open-source database, and JBoss open-source application server. [Read the rest]