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To: Allen Benn who wrote (1979)9/11/1997 2:22:00 PM
From: William Sheppard   of 10309
 
Just to add to what Allen has written re:Sun's acquisition of Chorus:

JavaSoft is a business unit of Sun responsible for the development, sales, and marketing of Java and related technologies. While they (we) originally developed JavaOS, earlier this year JavaOS was moved to SunSoft in part to eliminate the conflict of interest with respect to other RTOS vendors. JavaSoft (and Sun's executives) fully understand that for Java to be successful it can't simply be another proprietary alternative to Windows, but must be truly open with respect to hardware and software. So, while SUNW has other business units providing hardware (Sun Microelectronics with SPARC and JavaChips) and software (SunSoft with Solaris and JavaOS/Chorus), JavaSoft treats these other units identically to third-parties. They pay the same licensing fees and have identical access to code as other customers and partners. Yes, I'm sure if JavaOS or JavaChips become hugely successful at the expense of JavaSoft's other partners there would be a perceived conflict of interest or accusations of favortism. But the reality today is that if anything, JavaSoft goes overboard to insure there is no favortism.

JavaSoft has a huge task in creating a truly open, standards-based platform for the software industry as an alternative to the current one-company, closed, proprietary approach which exists today on the desktop and could exist tomorrow in the embedded world. This task requires the resources SUNW can provide, necessarily derived from SUNW's other business units, some of which do compete with JavaSoft's partners.

Bill
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