[aclug-L] InternetWeek Newsletter - November 3, 1998 (fwd)

[Dale W Hodge <dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sun Advances Java; HP Breaks Ranks (Again) 

Sun Microsystems yesterday outlined a series of moves to 
advance Java, including a port to Linux, while a renegade 
group led by Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft broke from the 
Sun ranks to form an open process for making Java extensions 
for the real-time embedded systems market.

The moves mirror growing interest in Java, while also 
reflecting increasing inter-vendor tension--outside of the 
usual Microsoft vs. Sun jockeying--to guide the future of this 
key Web technology. As for Sun, it continues to focus on 
ways to turn an important technology platform into real 
products and revenues.

The array of announcements from Sun included a planned 
port of the Java Development Kit 1.2 to the open source 
Linux OS; the creation of Java Industry Connection, a Web 
site to help users keep up with Java trends and technologies; 
and two new components to the Sun Developer Connection 
program--Sun Support Access and Developer Essentials 
Professional and Enterprise editions--to offer developers 
additional access to software, tools and technical support.

All of these moves come as Sun wraps up final testing of the 
JDK 1.2 release, expected next month, as well as the HotSpot 
compiler, expected early next year. Industry support for the 
recently released Enterprise Java Beans 1.0 specification is 
also building. Sun also has detailed plans to expand its 
delivery of Java-based products based on its recent 
NetDynamics acquisition.

Yet even as Sun tries to consolidate its position, a new group 
threatens to break ranks. In a somewhat harsh rebuke of Sun, 
the group said it is pursuing what it calls an open, vendor 
neutral standards process for real-time extensions to Java. The 
group includes Access Company, HP, Intermetrics Inc., 
Microsoft, NewMonics Inc., OMRON, Rockwell Collins, 
Siemens A.G. and Yokogawa Electric. By Richard Karpinski 

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