[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“Sun is working with Motorola, Nokia, Siemens and Sony Ericsson
on a certification program for mobile Java applications, designed
to speed time to market and increase the reach of Java.“But Sun critics claim only making Java open source will
guarantee its ubiquity and its power as a weapon against Microsoft,
and this week IBM adopted the popular publicity tactic of the ‘open
letter’, calling on Sun to open up the Java specifications.“Sun has not yet replied to the letter from Rod Smith, IBM’s
vice president of emerging technologies, but it is under increasing
pressure to fully open up Java – mainly from companies like IBM and
Nokia that have significant technical resources and strategic
directions tied up in the software, and that see it as their
primary method to fight off Microsoft .Net and Visual
Studio…”