NewsForge: Why Does Sun Call It the ‘Java Desktop’?

“The question didn’t enter my mind until I saw it raised on a
local LUG mailing list. But a sharp-eyed Luggite noted that Sun’s
new desktop — codenamed Mad Hatter but called the Sun Java Desktop
in press releases — runs on Linux, uses GNOME, and runs Evolution
for mail. ‘Where,’ she asked, ‘does Java come into the
picture…?’

“I had been so hoodwinked by the name that I assumed that either
part of GNOME had been ported to Java or that the parts of GNOME
they used on the desktop were somehow wrapped in Java so that the
desktop could be run on any platform with a JVM. I was dead
wrong…'”

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