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Sun To Build World's Biggest App Store Around Java

Posted by samzenpus on from the would-you-like-apps-with-that dept.

CWmike writes "Sun Micro plans to launch an App Store that could make Apple's look smaller than a 7-Eleven by comparison, CEO Jonathan Schwartz wrote on his blog this week. Schwartz indicated the Java App Store, code-named Project Vector, will focus on PC users and estimated the size of the community at 1 billion. Sun plans to allow Java application developers to submit programs to a simple Web site so the company can evaluate them for safety and content before presenting them to the Java audience. Sun will charge for distribution. The company will reveal more details at its JavaOne conference, which opens June 2 in San Francisco, Schwartz said."

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  1. I was by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was going to write a first post, but I got bought-out by Oracle before I could finish it.

    1. Re:I was by DMUTPeregrine · · Score: 5, Funny

      I was too, but I had to wait for this java slashdot browsing app to load.

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    2. Re:I was by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      you must be new here.

  2. Required sales pitch... by marciot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Would you like an Oracle database with that?

  3. I wonder if it'll be coded in Java... by Shag · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...so I could suffer the meta-frustration of waiting for a Java applet to load so I could then buy some Java applets and wait for them to load.

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    1. Re:I wonder if it'll be coded in Java... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yo dawg I heard you like waiting so we put Java apps in your Java store so you can wait while you wait

    2. Re:I wonder if it'll be coded in Java... by AuMatar · · Score: 5, Funny

      The jokes were written in Java, they just finished loading.

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    3. Re:I wonder if it'll be coded in Java... by NormalVisual · · Score: 4, Funny

      Maybe it's defined by the aggregate amount of RAM occupied by the product line. It *is* Java, after all...

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    4. Re:I wonder if it'll be coded in Java... by f0dder · · Score: 5, Funny

      While you wait please enjoy this Yahoo! toolbar.

    5. Re:I wonder if it'll be coded in Java... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      -Knock Knock!
      -Who's there?

      [...long pause...]

      -Java!

    6. Re:I wonder if it'll be coded in Java... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Just in time.

  4. Re:Software repository... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    All the programs are written in Java. It's more like a software *suppository*....

  5. Re:Anonymous Coward by BikeHelmet · · Score: 4, Funny

    Really? Why's it use so much CPU and memory? :o

    (sorry! Had to!)

  6. One week from now... by Speed+Pour · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...Microsoft announces an app store built on .Net applications and plan on making it as Mono friendly as possible. (pretend they didn't already announce this for windows mobile)


    One year from now...
    - Sun announces closure of app store. Notable achievement: 6 popular apps

    - Microsoft announces wildfire success.
    Note: They also announce the rollout of their 3rd DRM scheme in hopes of ending the massive piracy rates on apps coming from the store.

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  7. Re:You forgot something by pyrrhonist · · Score: 4, Funny
    What are you complaining about? That's 200 MB less than Emacs!

    ED is the standard text editor.

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  8. Re:Go Java! by fractoid · · Score: 5, Funny

    HHISSSSSSSSssssSSSsSssSsssSS!
    Hsssshssssssssthhhhhh!!

    (This message written and authorized by the Annoying Python Evangelists' Club).

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  9. Finally... by BrentH · · Score: 3, Funny

    World peace? All PC's coming together, macs, windows and linux alike, and download from the same store and run that same software?

  10. In Other News: by LaminatorX · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Debian Project has announced the creation of an Apt Store. This exciting repository will allow users to get whatever packages they need without even touching their mice.

  11. Re:Go Java! by MindKata · · Score: 4, Funny

    "slow as dogs balls"

    I wasn't aware dogs balls were a standard unit of speed? ... These SI units get more eccentric every year.

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  12. Re:Go Java! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Coding in C/C++ is like riding a skateboard: you will eat shit a million times for every trick you land

    That's how you become a real man, son. Not a quiche eating pansy boy.