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JAVA as Sun’s ticker symbol

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Sun’s CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced in his blog about the The Rise of JAVA - The Retirement of SUNW. Many reactions on this can be read on the web, including the comments on Jonathan’s blog; too many for me to read. But below are my observations…

Two very important and critical messages are embedded within this announcement:

  1. That Sun Microsystems is very committed to Java
  2. That Java is not going, and it will never go, or be released to the hands of the Java community; it will remain Sun’s proprietary technology

ceo

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2 Responses to “JAVA as Sun’s ticker symbol”

  1. Melissa Tondt Says:
    August 26th, 2007 at 11:23 pm

    I don’t understand - do you call Linux proprietary because Linus maintains control? Why do you call Java proprietary - it’s GPL, after all, feel free to fork away.

  2. ceo Says:
    August 27th, 2007 at 7:05 am

    It is more complicated than that… for Java ME. See Java ME, GPL and Intellectual Property Considerations.

    ceo

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