DELL and Hewlett-Packard have agreed to load Sun Microsystems' version of Java on their new PCs.
It's a significant boost to Java, which Sun developed as an environment that can run programs regardless of the underlying operating system.
In the past, most PCs shipped with Microsoft's version, which was built into Windows. Sun claimed the Microsoft version of Java was altered to ensure that it did not threaten the software giant's operating system monopoly.
Sun and Microsoft have been squabbling for years over the technology, including Sun's ongoing private antitrust lawsuit. In December 2002, a US federal judge ordered Microsoft include Sun's Java in Windows. The software giant is appealing.
Sun is now assured that Dell and HP computers will have the most up-to-date Sun-sanctioned version of the software without having to download it directly from Sun.
Both companies are expected to start shipping PCs with Sun's version later this year. Financial details were not disclosed.
News source: Australian IT
It's a significant boost to Java, which Sun developed as an environment that can run programs regardless of the underlying operating system.
In the past, most PCs shipped with Microsoft's version, which was built into Windows. Sun claimed the Microsoft version of Java was altered to ensure that it did not threaten the software giant's operating system monopoly.
Sun and Microsoft have been squabbling for years over the technology, including Sun's ongoing private antitrust lawsuit. In December 2002, a US federal judge ordered Microsoft include Sun's Java in Windows. The software giant is appealing.
Sun is now assured that Dell and HP computers will have the most up-to-date Sun-sanctioned version of the software without having to download it directly from Sun.
Both companies are expected to start shipping PCs with Sun's version later this year. Financial details were not disclosed.
News source: Australian IT
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No, they didn't. They broke their contract, and lost their license for it. The End. Microsoft being forced to include Java has nothing to do with breaking the law, Sun sued them because they are worried Java will lose market share because Windows ships with the .NET Framework. There is NO reason why Microsoft should be required to include Java in windows. I don't see Winamp trying to force Microsoft to ship their software with Windows just because Windows ships with WMP. Imagine if Microsoft had to ship all the 3rd party products that compete with bult-in Windows features.
P.S the Microsoft Java VM is 100x better than Sun's.
Also they can drop the platform independence bit already, this is pretty much an urban myth about it due to JVM quality being different across the board.
How do sun have a "monopoly" here? They developed java , surely they are allowed to distrubute it , this isnt even remotely a monopoly , java has competition and its called .Net
I agree. Fsckin tards.
From the article:
Sun and Microsoft have been squabbling for years over the technology, including Sun's ongoing private antitrust lawsuit. In December 2002, a US federal judge ordered Microsoft include Sun's Java in Windows. The software giant is appealing.
So what if it's hardware vendors? Doesn't it still affect Microsoft and Sun?
It might not always be about Sun and Microsoft. But the article brought it up, so it is a legitimate issue. Sounds like you're a troll for bashing people actually talking about the article's content.
Nobody on this website seems to even understand how Java works.
Eh? Please explain it to us oh knowledgable one!
And its not all about Sun, there are hundreds of companies that belong to the Java community
What does that have to do with anything. This deal/article deals specifically with Sun and the promotion of their (proprietary) platform. You did read the article, didn't you?
Last edited by 8169 on 16 Jun 2003 - 08:19
Luckily my CS program featured C++ the whole time for core classes.
Sun's Java is bloated and it SUCKS
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