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> OpenIndiana takes its name from Project Indiana, the internal codename for OpenSolaris at Sun Microsystems before Oracle’s acquisition of Sun in 2010.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenIndiana#History



Ian Murdock, who grew up in Indiana, joined Sun Microsystems in early 2007 to lead Project OpenIndiana.


Yeah, just thought the wikipedia kind of cleared that up, Ian Murdock was an interesting fellow.




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