“Sun Microsystems postponed a planned announcemt Thursday of a
Linux version of the Java 2 platform. Development-tool vendor
Inprise was also to participate in the announcement….”
“Earlier this year Sun, based here, licensed several of its
Java Media technologies to an informal group of developers known as
the Blackdown Java-Linux Porting Team.“
“This week the team posted a second release candidate of its
Linux Java 2 port but said the final version will be released after
some more compatibility tests. In the meantime, a Java 2 Software
Development Kit (SDK) documentation bundle will be available on
Sun’s Java Web site, according to Blackdown.”