Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy told the opening session of a two-day SunNetwork Conference being held in Berlin that industry statistics show unequivocally that Java has won.
McNealy told thousands of customers, colleagues and partners in Berlin and via satellite link to venues around the world that Sun aims to meet the demand for secure, scalable and robust systems by addressing the needs of systems administrators, developers and users.
"Sun is working hard to reduce cost and complexity to provide system administrators with the service level agreements they need."
McNealy told end-users that Sun is back in desktop business with the Java Desktop System, which in combination with the Java authentication card provides a high degree of mobility. "One-third of Sun employees don't have an office, making use of thin clients which means unbelievable mobility is possible with zero moving costs, no virus problems and no licence fees.
"The big challenge for developers is what do you write to, how do you deliver quickly, how do you deploy at low cost, and how do you do so safely and securely?"
McNealy says there used to be many choices but today there are only two choices: .Net or Java Web services. "I am here to tell you Java Web services has won."
McNealy reeled off statistics in support of his statement, showing Java's dominant presence in a variety of devices such as mobile telephones and computer game consoles. "There are already hundreds of millions of Java cards in use with 22 million Taiwanese healthcare workers, 5 million US defence department workers, and all Sun employees getting Java cards. But where is the .Net card?"
McNealy says with the adoption of Java technology by Dell, HP, IBM, Linux, Apple and Sun, not even in the desktop arena does Microsoft have the upper hand. "I give them a tie, even though I think that's being generous." He says besides Microsoft, every other application server on the planet is Java compliant.
"The numbers are there. It's inescapable." Citing several other statistics on adoption of Java technologies, McNealy reiterated his statement: "The numbers are staggering. Java has won and that's important."
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