Gervas Douglas wrote:
> <<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='87&tag==nl.e027>
>
> No how about Sun opensourcing its neglected Orphan Java Technologies
> like, J/JS, Mr. Schwartz? New paradigm shifts in enterprise


Errr I think I'm missing something: Jini/JavaSpaces is opensource. It's
all released under Apache License v2 and has been for some time:

http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2005-10/sunflash.20051019.5.xml

> 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
>
>

Dan