NewsForge: Will Monetizing Java Help Sun Rebound?

“No question Jon Schwartz is a stand-up guy. His employer, Sun
Microsystems, has been hit pretty hard lately by pesky analysts and
journalists, largely because the company reported a rather awkward
$1.04 billion loss last quarter…

“In a wide-ranging sit-down conversation, Schwartz revealed a
few news items:

• “Sun’s productization of Java in the form of the Jave
  [sic] Enterprise System and the Java Desktop Systems is
  the central strategy to improve its flagging financial fortunes.
  ‘JES will ship synchroniously for SPARC and Intel and with a 30- to
  60-day window for Linux, both desktop and server,’ he said. ‘And
  we’ll roll Solaris Opteron into that. It all runs today in 32-bit
  mode… the question is when we will run the 64-bit mode; it will
  probably be 2004.’
• “Solaris will become the third operating system to run on the
  new AMD 64-bit Opteron processors; SuSE Linux currently has a
  version that runs on the chip, and Red Hat has announced one for
  release later this month. Microsoft is circulating a beta version
  of Windows XP for the 64-bit chip now and will have a release
  version early next year. ‘Opteron is highly performant,’ Schwartz
  said in a subtle understatement…”

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