Does your assessment of Sun's Java stewardship jibe with what James Gosling has to say? Do you support the open-source Java initiative? Have you come to take Java reliability and interoperability for granted?
Sun's Gosling: Already Plenty of Java 'Harmony' Under the Sun
The open source community may be looking for 'Harmony' but "Father of Java" James Gosling says enterprise Java customers would sooner go "screaming into the hills." Gosling talks to DevX about why Sun is ambivalent about Apache's Harmony, the future of the tools market, and the expectation for a language that will one day eclipse Java.
by Glen Kunene, Senior Editor
May 16, 2005
he Apache Software Foundation's proposal of an open source version of Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) has the "Father of Java" James Gosling puzzled. "It's often difficult to get a good picture from the open source community of what they actually object to in what we're doing," said the fellow and Chief Technology Officer of Sun's Developer Products group, who created the Java language, in an interview with DevX. "In what way could we be more open?
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he Apache Software Foundation's proposal of an open source version of Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) has the "Father of Java" James Gosling puzzled. "It's often difficult to get a good picture from the open source community of what they actually object to in what we're doing," said the fellow and Chief Technology Officer of Sun's Developer Products group, who created the Java language, in an interview with DevX. "In what way could we be more open?
