Hot Stuff: Sun Transforms Java in an Open-source Project

4 March 2007

Sun Microsystems, the producer of software and servers, have announced that they began to modify the Java technology in an open-source project that will be available for free on the Internet. This is very exciting and surprising news especially if we take into consideration the fact that this company has always protected its source code used in over 3.8 billions of cell-phones, supercomputers, medical devices, and many more. Apparently, Sun Microsystems will make their code available under the conditions of the General Public License, except for some small sequences of code that the GNU does not own.

I’m sure that this news will make a blast among the programmers all around the world because this project will allow them to examine, to modify, to improve the bugs and to add new functionalities in the source code of Java. But there is nonetheless a limitation to this initiative because any modification of the Java program will have to be made public.

Perhaps you wonder why Sun has adopted this strategy. This initiative is justified by the fact that Sun lost billions of dollars in 2000 when the stock market collapsed and when the dot-com crisis began. They needed a plan, and fast. The open source movement is the best solution in their case. The vice-CEO of the company said that Sun hoped to transform more programmers in Java developers who could create additional software in order to offer support for the Sun products. The official declaration of the representatives from Java states the fact that the Java code will be completely ‘launched’ by 2007, probably in March. This Java code refers to all the Java technologies that are used for the cell-phones, PC’s, and servers. The analysts believe that this wise movement will prolong the existence of Java which was launched more than ten years ago. This open-source project is believed to be a real gold mine as far as Sun Microsystems is concerned.

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