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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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      Not a sentence!
    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 f0dder · · Score: 5, Funny

      While you wait please enjoy this Yahoo! toolbar.

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

      -Knock Knock!
      -Who's there?

      [...long pause...]

      -Java!

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

    HHISSSSSSSSssssSSSsSssSsssSS!
    Hsssshssssssssthhhhhh!!

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

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  6. 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.