The 2003 JavaOne Conference is witnessing a collision of giants, as Sun Microsystems and IBM Corp. are pushing their platforms, highlighting a division within a technology that seeks to avoid fragmentation.
Sun announced that wireless heavyweights like Motorola Inc., Nokia Corp., Siemens AG and Sony Ericsson Corp. have agreed to use Sun’s mobile platform known as Sun One Studio. The company said its platform includes the Sun One portal server and Mobile Access 6.2 product.
The Java company also announced its Business Mobility initiative, which leverages the combined expertise of Sun and its industry partners.
“Java technology, and the community of millions of Java developers, have made mobility with security a reality with mass deployments over multiple networks, devices and technology platforms,” said Alan Brenner, vice president, Consumer and Mobile Systems group at Sun.
IBM’s platform, the WebSphere Micro environment under its open source known as Eclipse, will do battle with Sun’s platform. Other companies like Oracle Corp. and BEA Systems have tried in the past to pit their platforms against Sun’s. IBM announced yesterday that Palm and QNX agreed to integrate IBM’s WebSphere Micro Environment with their products.
Other key announcements from the conference include those from Metrowerks, Cysive, Borland Software Corp. and Tira Wireless.
Borland announced that a host of industry leaders have agreed to adopt its application lifecycle management strategy for Java software, and some of the customers include BEA Systems, Crystal Decisions, Droplets Inc., Flowfinity, Hewlett Packard, Openwave and Oracle.
Metrowerks said it plans to demonstrate it on-device debugging product known as CodeWarrior Wireless Studio 7, which supports Java.
Cysive said it is integrating its system to the Sun One platform.
