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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. 


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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?

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