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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Member since:2006-12-28
Member since:2005-12-02
"I think you've been working for the wrong companies ;-)
The last three places I worked for gave me a phone and I'm only a lowly engineer and admin.
The again, just look at the popularity of the BlackBerry. I think the Apple wants a piece of that pie."
I must be, might be time for a new job where I don't have to pay out of pocket. I do see a lot of BlackBerry's around, and actually the CEO wanted me to get the BES up and running for his email.
Member since:2006-01-06
Doubt it.
Right. Because they want you to be on call and accessible when they need you. Which is a kind of handcuffs. No thanks. My personal time is my time.
Member since:2006-01-03
Member since:2005-12-02
"Every company I've worked for in the past 10 years or more has provided cellphones to mobile workers. There is none that I know that expects you to use your personal cellphone for their business. What exactly do you mean?"
Like I said, I must have worked and do work for the wrong companies. I would love them to cover my expense, trust me lol. I work as a sysadmin, and had to get my own phone just to monitor the network.
Member since:2005-07-12
The company I work for bought me a cell phone with email and text messaging capabilities, then gave me a corporate credit card to pay the monthly bill with.
It wasn't all nice-nice on their part though. When that sucker goes off at 3:00 AM, I'm expected to get out of bed, log in to the network, and fix the problem! :-)
Member since:2006-01-24
I work at a company that provides everyone in IT (where I happen to work) a BlackBerry and they do pay the cost it really has made it easier for us to coordinate work and fix things quicker. Would they get us Iphones probably not unless they can integrate with lotus notes and run Yahoo messenger.
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2005-12-02
"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."
Call me skeptical, but how is a phone targeted at corporate customers? That is an individual purchase. Maybe I have just worked at the wrong companies, but rarely, if ever, does a company buy phones for employees, let alone pay the monthly costs associated with the phones. Maybe executives can get away with doing that?