Java developers will have noticed in the past few weeks that Sun has already
begun to crank up a new "unified" approach to its software business. Sun gave
JDJ an exclusive chance to ask questions, offering you the reader the
opportunity to ask Jonathan Schwartz, the dynamic young executive VP of Sun's
new Software Group, what's going on at Sun.
: I've been working exclusively with Java since its birth. I'm a big
fan, especially of Sun's Java. However, this past year I noticed that Sun's
stock wasn't doing well. Many people, Microsoft folks included, have started
to claim that Sun won't be around in five years. I'm really concerned; I know
Java will be fine because of broad support from the industry, but I would
like to see the creator of Java always be the leader of Java.
: Sun has plenty of staying power. We are coming off a
seasonal low per... (more)
When it came to write up its report on yesterday's Annual General Meeting of
Sun Microsystems, Inc., at the company's headquarters in Santa Clara, CA, the
Reuters news agency more or less left the talking to Chairman and Chief
Executive Scott McNealy.
Here's a brief slection of the words of McNealy himself, as reported by
Reuters' Duncan Martell direct from San Francisco:
"It was not a complete disaster by any stretch of the imagination. And I
think we protected the shareholder assets very aggressively in the last
fiscal year."
"We obviously are not pleased with the entirety of ... (more)
"It's not easy to see why IBM would want to buy Sun," writes Javalobby
founder Rick Ross in his latest discussion of the vexed question: who, if Sun
were bought, would get Java?
The discussion has been fueled both by last week's Kodak decision which has
found Java to be in breach of certain copyrights held by Eastman Kodak Co.,
and this week's Oracle-PeopleSoft shenanigans, with a takeover of the latter
by the former looking increasingly likely by the day.
But if not IBM, then who?
"A more likely name that often surfaces would be Japanese giant, Fujitsu,
which is already Sun's ... (more)
"Though it's been around for a while, AJAX is now a hot topic in the
application developer community because it brings cross-platform rich user
interfaces to web applications without having to use products like Microsoft
.NET or Macromedia," said Steve Benfield (pictured), VP of strategy &
technology evangelism, ClearNova, as he announced his upcoming session at the
Atlanta Java Users Group next week.
Benfield is due to give the session, provocatively titled "Injecting Life
into Boring Web Applications with AJAX," on Tuesday, June 21 from 6:30 to
9:30 PM at the Holiday Inn Select... (more)
"Our hearts go out to the victims of this disaster, tens of thousands of whom
now find themselves without basic necessities in the ability to connect with
the outside world," said Jonathan Schwartz, president and COO of Sun as Sun
and Sun Foundation, of which Schwart is also president, yesterday announced
that they are dispatching company volunteers to Red Cross donation sites and
communications equipment to the disaster zone to help provide support to
Hurricane Katrina victims.
"We are sending numerous volunteer technicians armed with internet
infrastructure to the Cajun Dome i... (more)
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