If I recall the details correctly, Jonathan was all "yay Android" because the details of the SDK didn't come out until a few days later. Jonathan's blog is from Nov. 5, 2007, and the SDK was released the next week, on Nov. 12. It was only then that everyone first realized that Dalvik was an end-run around the JVM (and paying a license to Sun). Here's an InfoQ analysis of the Android SDK from the day of its release: <http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/11/android-java>
IIRC, the mood at Sun got *very* dark on Nov. 12. I attended their Mobile & Embedded Developer Days in January, and it was very obvious that everyone from Sun had been explicitly instructed not to mention Google's platform or even speak its name aloud (you can tell when someone is rewriting sentences in their head to avoid saying what they really want to say, and there was a lot of it that week in Santa Clara). Between the premature praise for Android, and his premature (and wrong) announcement that Apple would switch to ZFS in Mac OS X 10.5 <http://www.macworld.com/article/58320/2007/06/zfs.html>… well, maybe this is why other CEOs don't blog. And why other CEOs are still CEOs. --Chris On Aug 13, 5:48 am, JThreads <[email protected]> wrote: > Here it is:http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/congratulations_google > > On Aug 13, 10:39 am, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I've answered the first half of the question - I don't fully > > > understand from "though" on - my fault with the comprehension of > > > "spin" in this context. > > > Remember when Android shipped, and Jonathan Schwartz blogged > > (according to Larry too much) about it and congratulated Google? I > > can't find his old Sun blog, only his new "I can now speak freely" > > one. The "spin" remark is just because I felt like he was often a > > little two-faced on his blog with the marketing hat on and stuff. -- 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.
