Somehow he saw a big opportunity to leverage the Java language to help build solutions for large enterprises.
His focus is actually now on the Java language, which has become the dominant platform for enterprise apps.
Sun Microsystems invented the Java language and started a mass exodus of computer programming talent away from Microsoft toward Sun.
Oracle has reiterated that the Java language itself is free and open source (as Sun declared it to be years ago).
It is easy to see why Oracle, Netscape and Sun are together promoting the Java language, since the success of the network computer would create a bigger market for all three.
Like fixing any jumble, software gets organized by putting like things in boxes--a process called "abstraction"--and it flourished in the coming years through techniques like object-oriented programming, which shapes the Internet's Java language.
The Java programming language was developed in the good old days by Sun Microsystems.
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James Gosling, developer of the Java programming language, is an advisor to the company.
Oracle bought the Java programing language through its acquisition of Sun Microsystems in January 2010.
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Google is accused of using the Java programming language in its Android mobile operating system unlawfully.
Security holes in Oracle's Java programming language have been responsible for a number of the recent attacks.
Those products, which have been available for several years, are designed mostly for the Java programming language, he adds.
Instead, Oracle is making a copyright claim on the APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) used to communicate with the Java programming language.
It has posted the code used to control the Arduino - written in the Java programming language - on its blog.
The reality is that the security flaw in the Java programming language will likely find vulnerabilities in a wide range of industries.
For him, the pocket-sized device is to 3Com what the Java programming language is to Sun, a Silicon Valley computer firm: the crown jewels.
Although Sun's principal business is making high-end computers, its ambitious branding effort is designed to promote and protect its increasingly popular Java programming language.
Some cable firms will succumb to Microsoft's pitch, but most prefer an open standard, possibly based on the Java programming language developed by Sun Microsystems.
The deal links the biggest Internet service provider, a leading creator of software and the firm that invented the Java computer language, which can run on any platform.
We are, of course, referring to the Java programming language.
Rented applications fit beautifully with Oracle's vision of a simpler and more reliable form of computing based on the open standards of the Internet and the Java programming language.
Crucially, the case focuses not on using the Java programming language itself, but rather the use of 37 application programming interfaces (APIs) which help developers create software on the platform.
But that is to reckon without the shift towards Internet-based computing, and the growing success of the Java programming language, which allows applications to run on a variety of platforms.
On May 7th the first round of a three-part fight between Oracle and Google over patent and copyright claims relating to the Java programming language ended in a decision that denied outright victory to either firm.
To add to the menace, the new Java programming language, developed by another Microsoft enemy, Sun Microsystems, had the potential to create applications programmes that could be pulled down from servers linked to the Internet and would run on any operating system.
This essentially is the reasoning behind Judge Jackson's ruling: that Windows should not be the means by which Microsoft establishes a corresponding monopoly in browsers which, in turn, enables it to limit the potential competitive threat to Windows from the new Java programming language.
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The idea, says Buell Duncan III , IBM's general manager for ISV and developer relations, is to create a network of companies large and small, which are conversant in both nonproprietary, or open, computing standards, like the Linux operating system or the Java programming language, and IBM's suite of hardware, middleware and services.
The string of hacks have primarily exploited vulnerabilities in the programming language Java, which is installed on most computers by default.
The coding language Java, he points out, is designed to sandbox itself, creating virtual walls around applications that limit their access to the host computer's resources.
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