Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 26th Oct 2006 21:05 UTC, submitted by wuda
Java Demonstrating a perhaps more aggressive path than anticipated, Sun Microsystems is set to announce the open-sourcing of the core Java platform within 30 to 60 days, Sun President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz said at the Oracle OpenWorld conference on Wednesday morning.
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RE: Good move, Sun...
by trembovetski on Fri 27th Oct 2006 21:15 UTC in reply to "Good move, Sun..."
trembovetski
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2006-09-30

> Quite frankly, I'm a little surprised that Sun didn't at least adopt the practice of releasing its latest versions of Java on Solaris first, followed by other platforms a month or two later.

That's how it used to be in 1.1-1.2 (and may be even 1.3) days.
The customers weren't happy.

Dmitri

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