Also at OSBC, Schwartz announced that the GNU General Public License (GPL) would apply to the open sourcing of Sun's UltraSPARC T1 chip.

"Open source is not just about software. It's also going to be about hardware, and we're going to be the company that's driving it," Schwartz said.

Schwartz also invited Oracle to use Sun's Project GlassFish application server rather than spend a reported $400 million to buy JBoss. Industry reports in the past week have Oracle set to buy JBoss for that amount, although no deal has been announced.

"The fastest growing open source application server in the marketplace is called GlassFish," Schwartz said.

Schwartz also said that the Sun-driven NetBeans open source platform has had more downloads of late than the higher profile Eclipse platform, based on industry research. "It's now eclipsed Eclipse," Schwartz said.