2003, what will java?
"The Javaone Congress should be a Java's event, but it is now becoming more like Sun's user group activity." The IBM WebSphere Application Server Market is complained in SCOTT HEBNER. This week, sdtimes.com published a series of articles that explore people's different feelings of Javaone, as well as the Sun "Java Sales Server".
Javaone, more "sunshine"?
As a leader of Java technology, Sun has focused on the Javaone conference held in San Francisco next month. Web services, new features of the Java 2 platform, using J2ME mobile computing, which will become a focus on this four-day event.
In the past few years, Sun first clarified his strategic direction. Jon, Jonathan Schwartz, vice president of SUN software departments, said in an interview that Sun will bundle all software products with Solaris operating system. By April, this thought has become a plan called "Network Operations 03-Q2". Simply put, this plan is to sell everything they need to enterprises, from the storage device to the server, from the software to the security service.
Obviously, this plan is to compete directly with other Java vendors (especially IBM). In fact, the relationship between Sun and Java communities is like this: Sun leads the Java community, and then competes with the same group of people. Sun's Java strategy has always been "standard cooperation, product competition", but IBM, BEA and other manufacturers do not trust the justification of Sun in the standard, and they have all criticized JCPs, of course, the purpose is to put more "Yourself" is inserted into the JCP.
Under the influence of the 03-Q2 program, JavaOne is getting more concerned by the Java community. People want to see Sun to continue with the identity of "Java Leaders", in this event, ZTE Java community, and challenge Microsoft in the enterprise application market. However, if Sun is alone, turn Javaone into its own "SPARC Solaris Sun One" product display, I am afraid Java community prospects worry.
Javaone, Sun's big problem
Sun's annual developer conference Javaone is still held for a month. Johvaone caused attention to Java developers in the world. However, the hottest topic is no longer "How do Java to compete with .NET competition?", But "Sun is suitable for continuing to serve as a Java language and Java Web service framework criteria?"
Everyone knows that leading the Java middleware and the application server market is IBM and BEA, perhaps you can still count JBoss, in short, not Sun. It is widely believed that in the next few years, the main pattern of the Java market will be the competition of IBM and BEA. In this way, Sun is placed in a very embarrassing situation, and it is no wonder that JCP's work efficiency has been repeatedly quorked.
Maybe Sun should learn how to operate in IBM. Although the amount of profit is not as good as hardware and service sectors, the profit margin of the IBM software department is the highest - up to 85% of the profit margin is sucking. In the last quarter, the profit margin of the IBM software has risen by 8%, of which the profit margin of the WebSphere product group has increased by 14%.
Sun's biggest problem is that they want to do system manufacturers and want to make software vendors, but lack of IBM so rich resources. Sun competition opponents are more than just IBM and BEA, but also Intel and Microsoft. As the saying goes, "Double Boxing is difficult to fight", SUN hopes to completely report on the big line from the CPU to enterprise application, and it is too difficult.
So, we can imagine that Sun will make full use of Java's potential potential. Similarly, you don't want Sun to hand over Java to a standardized organization in the short term, because Sun also has more interests from the power of developing standards - such as saying, first producing a development environment in accordance with J2EE 1.4 specification. Looking forward to Javaone three themes
This year's Javaone conference will be held in San Francisco, USA from June 11th to 13th. This year's Javaone content is mainly 8 most: Java core technology, Java mobile technology, core enterprise technology, Web layer Java technology, web service, desktop Java technology, Java products and success cases, advanced network technology. Among them, "Java Mobile Technology" is the largest piece, with a total of 37 lectures.
At this year's Javaone meeting, the Java 2 platform innovation, web service, mobile technology, this will be the three topics of Sun's main push. J2SE 1.5 and the J2EE 1.4 of "Tiger" and the official release J2EE 1.4 have a considerable change on the previous version, which believes that they will become focus on the conference.
