Congratulations Google, Red Hat and the Java Community!

Jonathan Schwartz

Nov 05, 2007

I just wanted to add my voice to the chorus of others from Sun in offering my heartfelt congratulations to Google on the announcement of their new Java/Linux phone platform, Android. Congratulations!

I'd also like Sun to be the first platform software company to commit to a complete developer environment around the platform, as we throw Sun's NetBeans [ http://www.netbeans.org/ ] developer platform for mobile devices behind the effort. We've obviously done a ton of work to support developers on all Java based platforms, and were pleased to add Google's Android to the list.

The Java platform has come a long way - we're on the vast majority of mobile devices in the marketplace today (well over a billion phones at last count), and with Google's mobile services (like gMail and Google Maps), along with Yahoo!'s Go Mobile [ http://mobile.yahoo.com/go ], alongside a massive spectrum of incredible entertainment offerings from folks like Electronic Arts, we have by far and away the most complete content ecosystem on the market today. Enabling carriers, handset manufacturers, content creators - and most of all, consumers - to get the most from their mobile devices.

And needless to say, Google and the Open Handset Alliance just strapped another set of rockets to the community's momentum - and to the vision defining opportunity [ http://marsrover.nasa.gov/home/index.html ] across our (and other) planets.

Today is an incredible day for the open source community, and a massive endorsement of two of the industry's most prolific free software communities, Java and Linux.

Stay tuned for specific details - for those so inclined, download NetBeans here [ http://www.netbeans.info/downloads/index.php ] to check out the industry's most popular IDE for mobile Java development.

And in the spirit of offering congratulations, I'd like to offer a similar shout out to our friends at Red Hat Linux - who today announced their support for the OpenJDK project. With friends like Google and Red Hat, it sure seems like the momentum behind Java's on the rise...

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