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Opening Up Java

by Randy Mears

The inventory of open-source computer program code just significantly increased, thanks to Sun Microsystems. This recent announcement, about Sun making Java open-source, is a significant one given Java’s historic impact on Web application delivery. Java will now benefit from the open-source community’s penchant for improvement and refinement while finally establishing itself as an industrial-strength non-proprietary Web development technology.

It also seems like a good time for Sun to pass this particular baton to open-source. Ultimately, both should benefit.

Published Monday, November 13, 2006 10:01 PM

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