Hi, I find it interesting that no one has remarked on the similarity of Android (and Google TV) to Sun's vision for the Green OS. For those needing a history lesson, Green was a Sun project that started in 1990 for developing a new OS (the Green OS) and language (Oak) for smart appliances. Quoting from Wikipedia:
<wikipedia> They were attempting to develop a new technology for programming next generation smart appliances, which Sun expected to be a major new opportunity ... By the summer of 1992, they were able to demonstrate portions of the new platform including the Green OS, the Oak language, the libraries, and the hardware. Their first attempt, demonstrated on September 3, 1992, focused on building a PDA device named Star7 which had a graphical interface [...] In November of that year, the Green Project was spun off to become firstperson, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, and the team relocated to Palo Alto, California[5]. The firstperson team was interested in building highly interactive devices, and when Time Warner issued an RFP for a set-top box, firstperson changed their target and responded with a proposal for a set-top box platform. However, the cable industry felt that their platform gave too much control to the user and firstperson lost their bid to SGI. An additional deal with The 3DO Company for a set-top box also failed to materialize. Unable to generate interest within the TV industry, the company was rolled back into Sun. In June and July 1994, after three days of brainstorming [...], the team re-targeted the platform for the World Wide Web. That year, the language was renamed Java after a trademark search revealed that Oak was used by Oak Technology. </wikipedia> So.... 18 years later and with a different owner... the original vision for Java seems to be taking hold... Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(software_platform)#History -Mario. -- I want to change the world but they won't give me the source code. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
