Read "Let Java Go" - ESR Writes an Open Letter to Scott McNealy
· Read "No Sun Is An Island," Says Javalobby Founder
Read Should Sun "Let Java Go"? Counter-Arguments vs Open-Sourcing Java
Read "Let's Collaborate on Open-Sourcing Java": IBM Writes Open Letter to Sun
Read Sun's Schwartz: IBM's Request "Seems a Little Bonky"
Until recently, the ongoing Sun-IBM "open" Java debate had been a quiet
collaboration (witness the agreement to allow Apache a "scholarship" for
certification of Geronimo). That quiet debate had the lid blown clean off it
recently by a series of very public (some might even say grandstanding) moves
by Sun and IBM. The results are less about who's right than they are about
who can play the media trump card better.
I've spoken with people from IBM and Sun over t... (more)
Read Sean Gallagher's technology blog
As Sun and IBM haggle over the terms of open-sourcing Java, I think it's
important to note: if they're trying to jumpstart more widespread development
of Java applications on the server, they are barking up the wrong tree.
The reason is simple - Python. The scripting language is already in
widespread use, is object-oriented, is proven to scale moderate... (more)
Sean Gallagher is technology editor, Baseline Magazine, and blogs as the dotcommunist at http://weblog.dendro.com.
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