Mad Hatter Preview - Sun Java Desktop System Demo

bengine writes "According to this article, Sun Java Desktop System is a good product overall, built on the well-established SuSE system with integration from Sun. It delivers what appears to be a very useful desktop OS and it has the chance to make a dent in the Windows monopoly. But Sun will have to differentiate itself on its quality, hardware, services and reputation. That means a lot of hard work, so the key questions will be how well they execute their strategy, how much public acceptance they gain and what message they convey through public venues." This makes a good companion to the earlier story linking to Mad Hatter screenshots.

Comments

I don't see this making much of a dent...

[andih8u]

If the pricing per seat per year is still $100, I don't see a whole trove of enterprises converting their entire camp over to this product. Especially with all the recent poor press Sun has gotten about being half-dead etcetera, I don't see many IT ppl being able to convince their boss to go with a company that he probably read about in the morning's paper as being about to collapse.

Java is a decease

[axxackall]

Sun is placing Java in the front of the distro just as the last agony of the dying company.

The distro has nothing to do with Java aside it can run JVM. Well, it can run (even often more successfully) other interpreters and compilers too: Python, Perl, Ruby, Lisp, Erlang, Haskell, Schema, ML, Prolog, C, C++, PHP, Ada, and many more.

But Sun doesn't care about other languages. Sun keeps being blind and see ONLY Java everywhere it goes, in everything it touches. Sun thinks that if it will repeat only Java as a magic word then at some point all world around will ignore everything if it is not Java.

So sad to see so good in the past company ending up in such a mental illness decease.