Sun is dropping its free email service MySun from March 24, in a house clearing exercise.
In an email to users last week, Sun said: "We have come to the conclusion that we can no longer support a free email service as it is currently offered to MySun subscribers.
"Effective March 24th 2003, we will discontinue the MySun email service.
"We are notifying you of this change now in order to give you enough time to identify an alternative email solution and move your messages to a new provider," it adds.
Intended primarily as a conduit for marketing to Sun users and the like, the MySun email service was launched around the time Microsoft acquired Hotmail some years ago. Even though Sun execs rarely tired of pointed out that Hotmail's backend ran on Solaris servers, the thinking was they wanted to be able to offer an alternative of their own.
Source: TechFocus
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