Sun's Trading Symbol Going From SUNW To JAVA

Mortimer.CA writes "Straight from Jonathan Schwartz's weblog, Sun is changing their ticker symbol from SUNW to JAVA: 'JAVA is a technology whose value is near infinite to the internet, and a brand that's inseparably a part of Sun (and our profitability). [...] To be very clear, this isn't about changing the company name or focus — we are Sun, we are a systems company, and we will always be a derivative of the students that created us, Stanford University Network is here to stay. But we are no longer simply a workstation company, nor a company whose products can be limited by one category — and Java does a better job of capturing exactly that sentiment than any other four letter symbol.'"

Comments

Re:Uhm.

[MrNaz]

Java does a better job of capturing exactly that sentiment than any other four letter symbol.

Skipping the obvious vulgarities, how about Standard Language Of Workstations, or S-L-O-W ?

Re:Uhm.

[oliverthered]

If it was named after .net that would be Exceptionally Slow.

Re:The horse is dead, quit beating it.

[jcr]

could you sleep without testing your programs on the supported platforms with any other language/platform?

Whether other languages succeed in this or not has no effect on the fact that Java promised it and didn't deliver.

-jcr