<<As I am sure you have noticed, there has been quite a bit of
momentum around LAMP in the industry, ranging from innovators like
Google, Yahoo!, and Amazon, to the "Web 2.0" crowd like Friendster,
MySpace, and Flickr. In addition, LAMP has increasing usage in the
enterprise.

The "P" languages in LAMP — PHP, Python, and Perl — are all open
source, and each provide their own virtual machine. It would be ideal
if the Java JVM was open source so that open source projects like PHP
could join up with the Java Virtual Machine. In turn, Java would be
much more competitive with .Net, which supports numerous languages out
of the box. Initiatives like adding dynamic language support in the
JVM will not go far if Java can not meet existing languages on a
common ground of open source.

What is unfortunate about Sun's open source strategy is that it is
very unclear. Can you please answer the following question with a
single coherent sentence that people can remember and repeat? If I ask
five Sun employees this question, I get five different answers, so
having simple answers to these questions will clearly help your own
workforce as well as your customers and prospects!

"Why is it good to open source OpenSolaris and OpenOffice and bad to
open source Java?">>

You can read this blog at: <http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2787&tag=nl.e027>

No how about Sun opensourcing its neglected Orphan Java Technologies
like, J/JS, Mr. Schwartz? New paradigm shifts in enterprise
architecture such as SOA and composite apps represent a great
opportunity for J/JS, if the technology were not tied to Sun's control...

Gervas