News Focus: New direction at JavaOne

By ZDNN Staff, News.com
Posted on ZDNet News: May 16, 2006 7:31:00 PM

For the first time Sun has a CEO other than Scott McNealey to preside over its JavaOne conference. Already, Jonathan Schwartz has made his own news with a big commitment to open source.

Live from San Francisco, Scott McNealy

It was comedy hour at JavaOne, as Sun's chairman laid out his Letterman-style "Top 10 best things about not being CEO."
May 19, 2006

Java in the trenches, the Eclipse Way

Ed Burnette: At Day 4 of JavaOne, Eclipse project managers show off the three phases of the "Eclipse Way"
May 18, 2006

Sun's Schwartz defends value of Java

Dan Farber: Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz absorbed a flurry of jabs and a few left hooks from analysts.
May 17, 2006

GWT, Blu-ray, PHP, JUnit 4, and more!

Ed Burnette: My "stack of stuff" pile is overflowing with notes from the conference, but here are the most important highlights from the sessions I attended or heard about.

JRuby on Rails demonstrated at JavaOne

Java SE to support Visual Basic

May 18, 2006

Sun flirts with Ubuntu

At JavaOne, suggestions fly that Sun Microsystems will ship servers with "Dapper Drake" version of Ubuntu Linux.

David Berlind: GNU/Linux get OK to distribute Java

May 17, 2006

Has Sun blown its chance?

Dana Blankenhorn: But by failing to open source Java at JavaOne, Jonathan Schwartz undermined his own stated goal, which is to make the language universal. May 17, 2006

Sun promises to open-source Java

Sun execs say question is no longer whether Java programming language will be open-sourced, but how it should be done.

Ed Burnette : The power of Java and open source

Dana Gardner: Let's hope this is not just hype and FUD

Video: Sun set to offer Java to open-source community

May 16, 2006

Java inches closer to open source

Sun plans to open up more Java software, but will stop short of sharing the programming language itself.
May 16, 2006

NetBeans Day: Project Matisse Roadmap

Ed Burnette The most significant new feature is probably data binding or "beans binding" automating common tasks and making life easy.
May 15, 2006

Sun picks right-hand folks for Schwartz

Appointments round out lead execs under the new CEO. Now investors will wait to see how it works.
May 15, 2006

Sun program designed to spread Java software

With updates and technical support, Sun's new plan encourages PC manufacturers to distribute Java Standard Edition.
May 15, 2006