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To: almaxel who wrote (32546)	6/4/2000 10:56:00 PM
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By Deborah Gage, Sm@rt Reseller UPDATED June 2, 2000 11:25 AM PT Sun Microsystems Inc. has successfully quashed an attempt by some of the biggest players in the industry to set standards for Web applications by supersetting Java. IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, Intel and Compaq were recruiting application server vendors and other companies to join OpenServer.org and had planned to announce the organization before Sun's JavaOne developer show, which opens in San Francisco on Tuesday. An industry source said the effort fell apart when Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) dropped out, although Oracle did not return calls seeking comment. After protracted negotiations, Oracle this week licensed Sun's Java 2 Enterprise Edition, joining Compaq and 15 other vendors. IBM, HP and Intel remain holdouts. Sun (Nasdaq: SUNW) VP George Paolini said that although he does not know why OpenServer.org fell apart, he met with the group and explained that he saw no value in their efforts. "In my mind, organizations of this kind succeed when there's a technology at the center of gravity, but I didn't see that," he said. "I saw an NT reference profile, boiling the ocean on all file formats and protocols and APIs, but what was at the core? In trying to supersede all standards organizations they have no true cause for being, and so it's hard to stay focused." Sun continues to work on its Java Community Process and this week announced members of two interim executive committees -- one for Java 2 Standard and Enterprise Editions, and one for Java 2 Micro Edition -- that will serve until elections take place this fall. Members include Apache Software Foundation, Apple, BEA, Caldera, Compaq, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, IONA, Inprise, Insignia, Matsushita, Motorola, Nokia, Novell, Oracle, Palm, Philips, Siemens, Sony, Sun Microsystems and Wind River. Phipps leaves IBM, will join Sun Meanwhile, IBM (NYSE: IBM) confirmed that Java evangelist Simon Phipps left IBM to work for Sun. Phipps is known as a good storyteller and will join former IBM colleagues David Gee and Pat Sueltz in Sun's software group to help with Java marketing. "My main reason for moving was that Sun offered a great chance to help shape the future of the Internet software industry from inside its prime mover," Phipps said in an interview. "I'll be Sun's chief software evangelist with a worldwide remit reporting in to David and Pat; we already know we make a winning team together!" Sun declined to comment, but IBM VP Rod Smith said Sun's JCP is moving in the right direction and that "Java remains one of the cross-platform e-business technologies that are important to our customers and IBM." Ralf