“The final keynote address of this week’s JavaOne developer
conference in San Francisco had three overarching themes: Linux is
good, Microsoft is evil, and appliance computing is here to
stay.”
“Patricia Sueltz, general manager of Java at IBM, took the
stage…”
“The Linux JVM [Java virtual machine] is part of IBM’s major
commitment to Linux support on hardware and software,” Sueltz
said.
“Sueltz pleaded with the almost 10,000 developers in the
audience — JavaOne itself was attended by about 21,000 people —
to continue to be vocal and aggressive in their commitment to
standards… Sueltz shouted, “refuse to conform to proprietary
development models. Throw them out! Subvert the forces that would
fragment Java! Continue to fight for open standards!”