OpenJDK is out!

As I briefly mentioned yesterday, OpenJDK has now been finished. It's assumably the fastest JDK ever, and it's been a wild and crazy journey. It took exactly a year, because last years JavaOne was where Sun announced that they would Open Source Java.

It should be, considering the huge amount of lines that needs to be checked for licencing, before Sun could apply the GPL v2 license to it all. Assumably it costed "hundreds of millions of US dollars".

Actually a few libraries couldn't be GPL'ed, and is therefore still only binary. But virtually anything is now truly Open Source.

Did you know, that Sun is the worlds biggest Open Source company? That makes JavaOne the worlds biggest Open Source developers conference, doesn't it?

An important note from Sun, is that they will do anything possible to make sure that anything will stay compatible. In line of this, they've also made the TCK freely available, to make it possible for ISV's to

Well, enough said, go fetch it and build it for yourself. You can find it all by clicking right here:

When asked what Sun wants to make money of, Jonathan Schwartz's quick answer is that what they invested in 3-5 years ago, is what they make money of now.

Sun seems to have a nice vision on making the world a better place, by cutting the cost of software, infrastructure and other enablers of IT, because they want Java to be "Write once, run anyone", instead of only "run anywhere -> everywhere". Together with the UN they sponsor the Youth Summit, which enables youngsters from around the world (about 192 countries as I remember) to collaborate, for better mutual understanding. They also want to cut the cost of mobile devices/phones, so that the underdeveloped countries can use them for navigating the internet. There is presumably 10-fold more users joining the internet daily using mobile devices, compared to ordinary PC's. PC's are simply to expensive.

With peer-to-peer networking, mobile solar powercells and mobile phones, we (=the "western world") just might succed in bringing "enlightenment" to the "underdeveloped" parts of the world (actually I don't really like using that phrase, but I do in lack of better terms).

As many companies want as few primary partners as possible, many companies choosing Suns (Open) Solaris or (Open) SPARC tends to choose from Suns other services as well.. This is what Sun makes money of, and they seem to be doing it quite well..

..And when asked directly, Jonathan states that they are NOT going to produce mobile devices/processors, but will support those who does (which is in line with what they've been doing the last couple of years).

But they might someday use OpenSPARC and OpenSolaris for mobile devices - in collaboration with companies producing these things.

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