Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 8th Mar 2008 19:07 UTC, submitted by Moochman
El Reg reports: "Less than a day after Apple unveiled its much-discussed iPhone SDK, Sun Microsystems has told the world it will build a Java Virtual Machine for Steve Job's handheld status symbol. 'We're very excited,' Eric Klein, Sun's vice president of Java marketing, told the The Reg. 'We've spent the last 24 hours furiously looking through what information was made publicly available, and we feel comfortable enough at this point on the information we have to commit the engineering resources to bring the JVM over to the iPhone and the iTouch as fast as our schedules and Apple's release schedule will allow.'" Sun plans to distribute the JVM free of cost via the App store.
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It's no surprise though, really. Sun has every reason to port it's JVM to the iPhone, especially since it's now being targeted at corporate customers.
Here comes a wealth of other apps for the iPhone and iPod touch. I just wonder what kind of performance we are going to see from it.
I wonder if MS will port .Net to it anytime soon? Just joking. ;-)