[LUNI] CNN.com - Java revved up to fight Microsoft - Jun. 21, 2003

[Ronald Petty]

Wasn't BlackDown opensource?  Why is Sun doing an open source version
important?  Besides the grammar for the language has been available
forever so anyone who wanted to write their own compiler could have (and
byte code spec), and some have (embedded market, not personal java mind
you).  

This sounds like more PR than anything new.

Ron

On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 15:23, Matthew Landry wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 03:10:47PM -0500, Michael McGonagle wrote:
> > How is this going to effect Open Source? Is this going to kill Java 
> > there? Can Sun pull it off?
> 	In the short term, gains for Java and Sun are good. But we must
> always remember to keep our eyes on the big picture...Java is only _mostly_
> Open Source, and Sun is still making a lot of money selling servers to run
> a closed-source OS...they may be our allies-of-the-moment in the battle
> against Microsoft, and one hopes they can eventually be brought on-board as
> full partners, but they're not there yet, and we can't afford to start
> looking at them as a savior.
> 
> 	After all, there was a day not all THAT long ago, when IBM was the
> Big Bad Enemy and any company that humbled them in the market (like...well...
> Microsoft) was considered laudable.