“Oracle Corp. is calling on Sun Microsystems Inc. to put Java
into the open source community.”
“Sun should still decide what goes into Sun-blessed Java, but if
they open the process, all those freeware versions of Java would
have a lot less momentum,” said Kevin Walsh, vice president of
Oracle’s Intel Technologies Division, in an interview at Oracle
Open World in San Francisco. “Linux is in many ways a reaction to
Java. Open source is a different development model then what Sun
has been pursuing, but it still merits consideration.”
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