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Suddenly, it all makes sense...

Kudos to Dion for being the first I've seen to point this out. Says he:

Interestingly, it seems like it was lead by good 'ole Geir Magnusson.

Maybe nothing was read into that when the proposal came out. But now, Geir is an IBMer.

With the acquisition of Gluecode, GM Jr. now works for IBM. Should Harmony succeed--and as Dion points out, IBM certainly has the IP for that to happen--what becomes Sun's role?

Eclipse is the dominant IDE, Harmony would be the dominant VM, Geronimo could be the dominant app server... the JCP and Sun's reference implementations could become somewhat irrelevant to a large swath of the community.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist, and this whole line of reasoning is probably just bunk, but... things are getting interesting. Oh, right, forgot, the name "Eclipse" was just a coincidence, had no intended meaning towards Sun... ;-)

Comments

• You are way off base Ben.

  Harmony is a plot by all the Portuguese speaking programmers to take over Java and thereby rule the world! They're sick to death of English-only javadocs.

  Just ask Bruno. Why else would they have plotted this in the remote jungles of Amazonia ;-)

  Posted by: johnreynolds on May 12, 2005 at 12:19 PM

• They'd have to change the name to something else from Java in order to make any changes not approved by the JCP though (or to ignore anything dictated by the JCP).

  Remember that in order to call it Java it MUST pass the TCK which is controlled by Sun based on the specs put down by the JCP.

  Posted by: jwenting on May 12, 2005 at 11:58 PM

• Has the War gone to the Amazon or Amazonia???
  I like Java but I am getting tired of these Wars, Maybe I should settle down to Linux and C++, What do you think?

  Posted by: cohensam on June 26, 2005 at 02:47 AM

• Linux and C++, eh? Yeah, there aren't any politics in that world (KDE vs. Gnome, cough cough)...

  Posted by: javaben on June 26, 2005 at 11:13 AM

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