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Java To Be Opened For Christmas?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ho-ho-ho dept.

MBCook writes "At the Oracle OpenWorld conference, Sun's CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced on Wednesday morning that Java would be opened within 30-60 days, which would would mean about Christmas Day at the latest. Sun first announced they would do this back in May at JavaOne but didn't give a date. We've seen rumblings before on this topic. Schwartz also commented on the companies Sun Fire servers, Sun's relationship with Oracle, and general trends."

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  1. Re:64-bit by EmperorKagato · · Score: 4, Insightful

    or Java that utilizes the 64 bit arch as well as take advantage of dual core processing and hyperthreading.

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  2. Firefox : Iceweasel :: Sun Java : ??? by Gracenotes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The dichotomy that exists between Microsoft Java (which is pretty bad) and Sun Java is, if not jarring, quite irritating. Thankfully, Sun Java is the norm. But if Sun Java is released under the GPL, I expect to see several more versions of Java, most of them incompatible with each other, coming out soon. Iceweasel, anyone?

    1. Re:Firefox : Iceweasel :: Sun Java : ??? by DragonWriter · · Score: 5, Insightful
      But if Sun Java is released under the GPL, I expect to see several more versions of Java, most of them incompatible with each other, coming out soon.


      So? There already are several more versions of Java. What keeps the ones that succeed largely compatible isn't licensing (as the non-Sun, non-Microsoft ones are reverse-engineered, not licensed) but the fact that there is no interest in incompatible "Java". Releasing Sun's implementation under the GPL (or the CCDL, or, heck, into the public domain) isn't going to change that.

  3. Re:Co-ffeee... by kevin_conaway · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Between Azureus and a few useful web applets, I use Java far more than I'd like, as it's the slowest thing on my PC (3ghz/1GB RAM). Would definitely like to see it slimmed down.

    Using Azureus as an example of memory problems in Java is like using Firefox as an example of memory problems in C++